Shamir’s L.A. Schedule Includes Ceremony at Wiesenthal Center

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir is scheduled to visit Los Angeles immediately after his meetings with President Reagan and other U.S. leaders in Washington.

Plans call for him to take part in a cornerstone-unveiling ceremony at the Simon Wiesenthal Center on Thursday afternoon, to address a fund-raising dinner Thursday night and to speak at a World Affairs Council lunch on Friday.

His official program concludes Friday afternoon, but an Israeli diplomat said the prime minister will remain in Los Angeles until Saturday evening because of the Jewish ban on traveling on the Sabbath.

Arab organizations plan to picket Shamir’s speech to the World Affairs Council, said Dr. Anthony Saidy of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Irv Rubin of the Jewish Defense League said his group will have counterdemonstrators in place as well.

“We have had some information that there probably will be some demonstrations, but I don’t think it will be anything out of the ordinary,” said Cmdr. George A. Morrison of the Los Angeles Police Dept.

Some Jews who are concerned that their attendance might be construed as endorsement of Shamir’s positions said that they will boycott the Thursday dinner, where guests are required to have donated at least $1,000 for the United Jewish Fund or to have purchased a like amount of Israel Bonds.

“There are many people who are strong, committed Zionists who are making their commitments but refusing to do it through the Shamir dinner,” said one major donor, who asked not to be identified.

“If there had been a person at the dinner representing the other half of Israel, the other government, then I’d have gone,” said Gerald Bubis, a professor at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. He was referring to Israel’s Labor Alignment, which shares power with Shamir’s Likud Bloc but has been more sympathetic to Secretary of State George P. Shultz’s Middle East peace proposals.

But Steven Windmuller, director of the Community Relations Commission of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, noted that Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who heads Labor, had presented the other side at similar events in the past.

“The people are coming out of a sense of unity between the state of Israel and the Jewish people,” he said.

On Sunday, the Coalition for Peace in the Middle East has scheduled a demonstration outside the Federal Building in Westwood to protest U.S. and Israeli policies.

The coalition is made up of the American Friends Service Committee, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the Palestinian Aid Society, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and New Jewish Agenda.