US Hollywood star Jane Fonda will arrive in Israel on Tuesday for a three-day visit aimed at promoting peace in the region, the Bat Shalom women's organisation announced.

Fonda will travel with a delegation of the New York-based international organisation V-Day (Vagina-Day) for the protection of women, said a spokeswoman for Bat Shalom, which describes itself as a feminist organisation working for a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours.

During her stay, the 65-year-old star will also meet with representatives of the Jerusalem Center for Women, Bat Shalom's Palestinian sister organisation, created in 1994, one year after the Oslo peace accords.

This will not be the first time the aerobics queen has become involved in world affairs.

Fonda saw her nickname change from "Barbarella" to "Hanoi Jane" after her Christmas visit to North Vietnam in 1972, where she fiercely criticised the US war.

Recently, Jane Fonda also joined another US Oscar-winner, Sean Penn, in condemning US President George W. Bush's threat to invade Iraq in a letter published in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times.

Penn last week visited Baghdad, on a trip organised by the California-based Institute of Public Accuracy.