Madonna bodyguards hauled off after fight

The scuffle broke out as photographers trailed Madonna to her hotel.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Police detained two bodyguards of pop star Madonna on Friday after a brawl with photographers waiting for the singer outside her Tel Aviv hotel.
Two of the photographers and a policeman who tried to break up the fight were injured, said police spokeswoman Liat Pearl.
"Two security guards were detained for questioning by the Tel Aviv police department," Pearl said.
The pop diva has been in Israel since Wednesday, along with 2,000 other students of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism.
Media frenzy
Madonna's visit to the country has sparked a media frenzy with the local newspapers devoting pages detailing her luxury hotel suite and even her menu for the Jewish New Year celebrations, but journalists have been kept at a distance during the visit.
The scuffle broke out Friday evening as the photographers trailed Madonna from a restaurant to her hotel.
As Madonna entered her vehicle, the bodyguards pushed a photographer working for the Associated Press, breaking some of his equipment. He was unhurt.
Then, as other photographers trailed her convoy back to the hotel, some of the bodyguards stopped and tried to push another photographer off his motorbike, said a cameraman on assignment for Associated Press Television News, who was at the scene.
At the hotel the star's bodyguards knocked one of the photographers to the floor and kicked him in the face, before attacking a second one who tried to intervene, the cameraman said.
Arrested
The police then took the two bodyguards away.
Madonna had already entered her hotel when the fight broke out.
Madonna was raised a Roman Catholic, but she has taken an interest in Jewish mysticism in recent years.
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