Sean Penn is to visit Israel as part of his work for humanitarian aid organisations.
The actor, who is on screen this year as the rock-star son of a Holocaust survivor in This Must be the Place.
The announcement follows a meeting involving Mr Penn and IOsrael's deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon in Los Angeles last week.
Mr Penn, who is a prominent activist for a number of left-wing causes, became heavily involved in the clean-up effort following the Haiti earthquake.
