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June 22, 2010 - 8:44 AM by

John Cusack and Woody Harrelson at the Kinneret.

When a celebrity comes to Israel on a private vacation, there are a few ways to handle the ‘public’s right to know.’

There’s the Leo Dicaprio/Bar Rafaeli way of trying to visit the Kotel a couple years ago without thinking the paparazzi would notice, and getting ambushed on the scene, resulting in a fracas and ill feelings all around.

There’s the Bette Midler way – who this months spent some time here touring with her husband. They apparently planned ahead and gave Yediot Aharonot the chance to exclusively shoot the Divine Miss M in Jerusalem’s Old City. They cleverly labeled the photo “Bette hamikdash.”

When Jim Carrey arrived here from Egypt a few years back undetected, he went to the lengths or remaining incognito by hiring a stand-in look alike to hang out at the King David Hotel pretending to be him, while the real Carrey went out under a baseball cap and toured to his heart’s content.

But now, film stars John Cusack and Woody Harrelson have put one over on us – they were apparently in the country last week, hanging out at the Kinneret and checking out Christian holy sites in Jerusalem. How do we know? Cusack posted about what he called a ‘friendship tour’ on his Tweeter account, including a self-taken photo of the duo on the shores of Tiberias.

No publicists, no photo shoots and no decoys. Maybe we really are turning into a normal country.

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