World Scene: Israel

Outrage over 'terrorist Mary'

An Israeli group has canceled an exhibition of pictures that superimposed the faces of female Palestinian suicide bombers on Madonna-and-child paintings after the images sparked a public furor.

Yossi Bar-Mocha, the head of the National Federation of Israeli Journalists, said yesterday that his group removed the pictures from its headquarters in Tel Aviv because some people who lost relatives in militant attacks expressed offense.