People, Jul. 7, 1980

"It's really nothing," said the tourist; she had merely tumbled down a staircase while visiting Israel. But after a trip to Hadassah Hospital, Jane Fonda was on crutches with a cast up to her knee. The broken left leg did not prevent her from giving several benefit performances for the Haifa Theater, nor from taking her first tour of Old Jerusalem. Unfortunately, the star-struck local press easily matched her pace every limp of the way. Plagued by reporters at Jerusalem's monument to the Holocaust victims, the actress exploded: "You won't even let me cry...

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