JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Ultra-Orthodox Jews pronounced a mortal curse against Pope John Paul in footage aired by Israel Channel Two Television on Tuesday, hours before the Pontiff's arrival for an historic Holy Land pilgrimage.
Police are on alert for the six-day-long papal visit to Israel and Palestinian-ruled Bethlehem beginning on Tuesday evening. Security forces have placed special emphasis on curbing the activities of Jewish militants.
The midnight rite, which the television said was enacted on Thursday in a cemetery in the northern Israel town of Safed, recalled rabbinical curses cast on Yitzhak Rabin prior to his 1995 assassination by a right-wing religious Jew opposed to the then-prime minister's peace moves.
Participants in the ceremony, sounding ritual calls on ceremonial ram's horns, cursed the Pope as a "hater of Israel." They also singled out Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad for curses.
Earlier on Monday, Israeli police detained three members of what they called the "extremist Jewish right-wing" for posting virulently anti-Pope placards on walls in Jerusalem.
A court ordered one of the militants placed under house arrest until the Pope leaves Israel on March 26.
In a separate action, Jewish militants held an anti-Pope demonstration in
Jerusalem's Old City near the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site.
In a reference to the wartime Pope Pius XII, viewed by some Jews as having turned a blind eye to the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, the protesters held signs reading: "Pius, the Pope of Hitler -- John Paul, the Pope of (the militant Islamic) Hamas."
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