Angelenos Go to Israel to Show Their Support : Reaction: The visitors include Councilman Yaroslavsky and Dist. Atty. Reiner. Others are spending three weeks as volunteers.

As Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner and his family moved slowly through the Bradley Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday toward an El Al departure for Israel, someone asked his 15-year-old daughter how she felt about the weeklong trip.

“I’m scared--but I’m excited,” Annie Reiner said.

It seemed to be a common reaction as two groups from the Los Angeles Jewish community left for Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to express their wartime solidarity with the Jewish state.

Thirteen people traveling under the auspices of the Volunteers for Israel will spend three weeks at Israeli army camps and hospitals doing sometimes menial work that will free regular soldiers for more important jobs.

“I feel . . . Israel needs every bit of assistance she can get,” said Jerry Ross, a newlywed Santa Barbara fireman who is leaving his teacher wife behind to make the trip. “I used to stay in my living room and write a check, but now it’s critical to go and help.”

Another volunteer, Valerie Hoffman, said: “I’ve got a little bit of concern. I’ve never been in a war zone before. But I want to help Israel.” Her husband, Marshall, seemed more at ease. “You just get frustrated watching TV,” he said. “You just want to do something yourself, regardless what it is.”

Meanwhile, 26 members of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles are going for a week to meet Israeli leaders, inspect efforts to settle Soviet immigrants and view damaged neighborhoods of Tel Aviv. They include Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky as well as Reiner, his wife, Superior Court Judge Diane Wayne, and their two teen-age children.

There was no attempt Monday to discount the risks of the trip, which comes at a time when Iraq is aiming Scud missiles at Israeli cities, and the United States and its allies are preparing a ground war.

Indeed, Ran Ronen, the Israeli consul in Los Angeles, interrupted his talk expressing appreciation to the volunteers to say suddenly, “By the way, a missile was launched by the tyrant just an hour ago.

“I believe, right now, this is the time to give help to the state of Israel,” Ronen said. “You will see that Israel is strong, well-equipped and has the means to defend herself. She has been restrained, but there is a limit to Israeli restraint.”

As the group gathered in an airport lounge before boarding the aircraft, the hostess of the Jewish Federation group, Joan Praver of the United Jewish Fund, told her charges that when they arrive in Israel they should stick together. “We are in dangerous times,” she said. “These are not times to be wandering off and making the rest of us nervous wrecks.”

Reiner said he and his family decided to go to Israel the night that Iraq first rained missiles on Tel Aviv. If any member of the family had not wanted to go, no one would have gone, he said. “But we believe that while the danger should not be ignored, it should not be exaggerated either.”

Reiner said he was paying the full travel costs for his family but that part of his own trip expenses were being financed by the United Jewish Fund.

Yaroslavsky, who is paying for his own trip, said: “We all want to show Israel she is not alone at a time of such intense anxiety.”