An art museum in Haifa canceled an exhibit in which a naked woman was to be tied to a cross after some members of the Christian community in the Israeli city protested. Over the weekend, Christian youths got the cross from museum officials and burned it. The exhibit was to have included three men firing paint pellets at the nude female model.
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