Has the material the Material Girl once sang the praises of become some old schmattah? Seems Madonna is now looking to buy a country house – and that country is Israel. She’s been inquiring about a neglected 100-year-old villa in the small town of Rosh Pina, thinking that – putting her money where her mouth is – she’d like to renovate the five-bedroom property into a center for study of the ancient and mystical Jewish texts popular with followers of Kabbalah. As a lucky bonus feature, Rosh Pina is purported to be the very town at which the Messiah will make an appearance just before the world ends.