[attach id=418783 size="medium"]Top: A photo released by the Jerusalem mayor’s office with Kardashian, West (centre) and mayor Nir Barkat. Below: a screenshot from the ultra-Orthodox Kikar HaShabbat website which was manipulated to obscure Kardashian. Photo: Sapir Peles/AP[/attach]

An Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish news website has cut Kim Kardashian − one of the world’s most photographed women − from a photo taken of her in Jerusalem this week.

The original photo of Kardashian, her husband Kanye West and Jerusalem’s mayor Nir Barkat at dinner was altered to hide the reality TV star. She was blurred in another photo.

Nissim Ben Haim, an editor at the Kikar HaShabbat website, said they removed Kardashian because she is a “pornographic symbol” who contradicts ultra-Orthodox values.

In an article chiding Barkat for dining with them at a non-kosher restaurant, Kardashian was referred to as ‘West’s wife’.

Within the insular Ultra-Orthodox community, pictures of women often are not shown out of modesty.

In January, an ultra-Orthodox newspaper removed German Chancellor Angela Merkel from a photo for that reason.

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