Mariah Carey and Billionaire Friend in Israel for 'Spiritual Guidance'

American singer Mariah Carey is in Israel with her Australian billionaire boyfriend for a "pre-engagement spiritual meeting" with an unnamed "spiritual leader," the TMZ entertainment website reported.

The meeting reportedly was Packer's idea because he wants to find out if he is ready to marry Carey.

Neither Carey nor her boyfriend James Packer is Jewish, but the billionaire has close ties with Israel and is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's almost next-door neighbor. The Prime Minister owns a home in Caesaera, Packer has bought on in Tel Aviv.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported in April that one of Packer's business partners describe him as "the first non-Jewish Zionist in history."

The partner also was reported to have said that Packer had taken out Israeli citizenship, but the billionaire thoroughly denied that had done so.