The star of Mockingjay – Part 2 has been deleted from marketing materials in Jerusalem and some other cities to avoid offending religious audiences

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has opened in cinemas around the world, but there is one territory that will be seeing a bit less of star Jennifer Lawrence.

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Posters for the final part of the dystopian action franchise in some parts of Israel have been redesigned so as to remove the Oscar-winning actor. Instead, Katniss Everdeen and her bow and arrow have been replaced with a mockingjay in a handful of cities across the country, including Bnei Brak and Jerusalem. “We discovered that public posters with the image of a female are often torn down in Jerusalem, while Bnei Brak does not allow posters with female images,” a representative of the film’s Israeli PR firm said to Ynet.

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The city of Bnei Brak’s ruling on images of women is based on a fear that they “might incite the feelings of the city’s residents”, according to the Israeli website Haaretz. A marketing executive for the company hanging the posters in Israel said they have had “endless vandalisation” in the past, so chose not to take the risk.

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The final Hunger Games chapter is expected to make $300m in its opening global weekend, according to analysts. But the film’s box-office performance in France has been weaker than Mockingjay – Part 1’s was, perhaps because the recent Paris attacks have affected public appetite for cinema-going.

Mockingjay – Part 2 is receiving more positive reviews than the previous film, with a 72% rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes, compared to 65% for Part 1, but still trailing behind the 89% achieved by the second film in the franchise, Catching Fire. Reviewing Mockingjay – Part 2 in the Guardian, Peter Bradshaw said: “Despite being over-extended, it’s interesting how much energy and ingenuity this story turned out to have.”

Lawrence will next be seen in Miracle Mop biopic Joy from American Hustle director David O Russell.