California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will travel to Israel in May to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, the governor's office said.
Schwarzenegger is a longtime supporter of the Wiesenthal center, which is devoted to fighting intolerance and is named for the famed Nazi hunter.
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met with Schwarzenegger on Friday at the Los Angeles center and discussed the possibility of the governor speaking at an anti-Semitism conference in Israel, said Shalom's spokesman, Moshe Debby.
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"Anti-Semitism is flourishing, is rising once again," Shalom said. "I believe that if we are united, we will prevail."