Surfing champ Kelly Slater was detained by Israeli police over the weekend after getting into a brawl with photographers who were trying to take pictures of him with Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli.

Israeli photographers were waiting outside as Rafaeli and the American surfer left a hotel in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya before dawn Saturday, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. In an effort to prevent the cameramen from taking pictures, Slater pushed them, a photographer at the scene told Channel Two said.

A brawl broke out and Slater was taken for questioning and later released, Rosenfeld said.

Meanwhile, this latest incident is feuling futher speculation that Bar has broken up with big screen hunk Leonardo DiCaprio (who was in Paris all alone.)

As you may recall, Cameron Diaz went running to Kelly (a.k.a. The Break-Up Whisperer) in Hawaii in after she got the boot from former beau, Justin Timberlake.

Proof positive that one man’s leftovers are another man’s feast.