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Kollek invites celebrities to prove Jerusalem is safe by Yaacov Ben Yosef Special to The Southern Israelite JERUSALEM — Jerusalem’s Mayor Teddy Kollek has appealed to politicians and movie stars to pay a lightning visit to Israel to prove that the Holy City is safe. The slaying of a British tourist in Jerusalem this week gave Kollek the idea. Even before the shooting of 28- year-old Paul Appelby at the Gar den Tomb, Jerusalem’s hotels were only half full—as Americans took President Reagan’s advice and were not traveling to the Middle East this year. Abu Nidal’s terror group took credit for the attack. Israeli tourist officials in Britain reported that British citizens were canceling trips to Israel in large numbers as a result of the shoot ing. Teddy Kollek. the mayor of Jer usalem, always angered over ter rorism in the city he has presided over since 1965, lashed out at Amer icans for “handing a victory to (Libyan leader Col. Muammar) Qaddafi” by not traveling to Is rael. If anyone can get the big shots to Jerusalem fast, it is Kollek; he has managed to befriend an array of talent from Frank Sinatra to Danny Kaye, Henry Kissinger to Jimmy Carter. Not that those peo ple will be coming soon. But Kol lek will be trying to get enough big names to try to make the point that Qaddafi should not have his way. “It may be as dangerous to travel in a taxi from one corner of an American city to another as it is here,” Kollek told newsman soon after the attack on Appelby. The slaying of Paul Appelby, found with a Bible in his knapsack and a bullet in his head, particu larly disturbed Israelis. It marked Yaacov Ben Yosef the first time in five years that a tourist had been killed by terror ism in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem shooting was not the only troubling news for Israel this week. Word came from New York that three Israelis had been arrested as part of a 17-member ring alleged to be planning to smuggle arms to Iran. Soon after New York officials announced the indictments, ques tions emerged in Israel whether the government here knew of the ring’s existence. According to the indictments, the ring allegedly planned to smuggle $1.5 billion of arms, in cluding Phantom jets, Skyhawks, helicopters, and missiles, to Iran. Precisely how they were going to do that has not been clearly spelled out. One of the three Israelis is a reserve brigadier general, Avraham Baram. His arrest caused a sensa tion in Israel: Baram has been dec orated for bravery in war and at one time was under consideration for a senior police post. He and the other two Israelis were arrested in Bermuda. Baram told an Israeli newspaper reporter that unless he was helped by the Israeli government to return to Israel he would talk freely about the Israeli government’s role in the deal. Nonetheless, emphatic denials rolled out of Jerusalem. Israelis made it clear that Israel had halted arms shipments to Iran some time ago; the United States had sought and received Israeli assurances that Israel would not sell arms to the Khomeini regime. One Israeli newspaper reported that Israel had sold arms to Iran since the advent of Khomeini to power but that was a small amount and occurred in 1981. Hence, there was considerable embarrassment in Jerusalem at the prospect that three Israelis, acting with or without the knowledge of the government, may have acted counter to an American-Israeli understanding. Furthermore, Prime Minister Shimon Peres has been hinting of new progress in Israeli contacts with Jordan over the fate of the West Bank. 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