Tour Features Meeting and assistance at airport. Round trip airport transfers. Accommodations with private bath using the hotel plan of your choice. Full Israeli buffet style breakfast - daily. Services of government licensed guide on sightseeing days. Air conditioned transportation used for touring. All entrance fees as per chosen itinerary. Portfolio including itineraries and maps. Swimming in the Dead Sea. Program available from cities across the United States.

Day-by-Day Itinerary

Wednesday

Ben Gurion Airport / Tel Aviv

Arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, where you will be met by our representative and transferred to your hotel.

Overnight: Tel Aviv

Thursday

Independence Hall / Mini Israel / Latrun / Yad Mordechai

Start the day with a visit to the Independence Hall where the establishment of the state of Israel was declared.  Next, drive to Latrun to visit the new "Mini Israel" park, including miniture models of the most important sites and buildings in the country.  Continue to visit Ayalon Institute, once an ammunition factory for the Hagana, the underground movement before May 1948.  Proceed to Yad Mordechai, named after Mordechai Anilevitz, leader of the Warsaw Ghetto.  Visit the restored battlefields of the war of liberation and learn about their heroic story.

Overnight: Tel Aviv

Friday

Tel Aviv

Visit the Diaspora museum.  Drive around the main streets of Tel Aviv, center of the business and entertainment of Israel.  Stop at Rabin's Square, place of the assassination of Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin.  Continue to Old Jaffa, an 8,000 year old port city; visit the ancient ruins and walk along the restored artist's quarter.  Visit Neve Tzedek, the first neighborhood of Tel Aviv, built in 1909 and Nahalat Benyamin, the pedestrian street of the city with its musicians, hand made jewelry and artifacts.  Next, stop at Sheinkin, the lively and colorful street especially known for unique shops, cafe' life and youthful ambiance.

Overnight: Tel Aviv

Saturday

Leisure day

Overnight: Tel Aviv

Sunday

Caesarea / Haifa / Acre / Rosh Hanikra

Drive north to Caesarea, once the Roman capital of the region.  See the excavations of the crusaders' city, the aqueduct and the amphitheatre which has been restored as a concert venue.  Proceed to Haifa for a panoramic view from Mt. Carmel and visit "AF AL PI CHEN", the naval museum of the illegal immigration to Israel at the time of the British mandate.  Drive to Acre; walk along the old harbour and local market; continue to the northernmost point of Israel at Rosh Hanikra.  Descend by cable into the limestone Grottoes. 

Overnight: Kibbutz Guesthouse

Monday

Safed / Tel Facher / Banias / Tel Hai

Drive to Safed, center of the Kaballa movement.  Visit the JOSEPH CARO and the HA' ARI synagogues, the most important synagogues in the city; stroll around the Artist's quarter.  Enjoy a jeep tour to they foot of the Golan.  Continue to the Golan Heights.  Stop at an observation point over the city of Kuneitra, and the Syrian territory.  Stop at Tel Facher, a former Syrian army camp.  Visit the Banias springs.  Next, a visit to Tel-Hai.  See the "Roaring Lion" monument and learn about the heroic battle of Josef Trumpeldor and his comrades in 1920.

Overnight: Kibbutz Guesthouse

Tuesday

Beit Shean / Beit Alpha / Gan Hashlosha / Jerusalam

Drive to Tiberias to visit Rambam's grave.  Proceed to Beit Shean, also called "Scythopolis", the biggest archeological park in Israel with beautiful excavations from the Roman and Byzantine period.  Stop at Beit Alpha to see the beautiful mosaic floor of a synagogue from the Byzantine period.  Onto Gan Hashlosha, (Sachne) where you will have the opportunity to enjoy bathing in the water springs located at the foot of the Gilboa mountain, the famous mountain on which King Saul was killed in the battle against the Philistines.  Continue via the Jordan valley to Jerusalem.  Stop at Mount Scopus for a blessing as you enter the city. 

Overnight: Jerusalem

Wednesday

Jerusalem: The Old City

Tour the old city of Jerusalem.  Start with a visit to the tomb of King David on Mt. Zion.  Walk along the Cardo, the ancient Roman road.  Visit the four Sepharadic synagogues restored after the 1967 war in the Jewish quarter.  Tour the Kotel Tunnels.  Visit Davidson center and walk through the Roamn Cardo, to the local Arab bazaar.  Walk through Jaffa to David's Tower museum and see the ancient remains of the city beginning with the first Temple period.

Overnight: Jerusalem

Thursday

Jerusalem: The New City

Celebrate the Bar-Mitzvah ceremonies at the kotel.  Continue to Mea Shearim and learn about the unique lifestyle of the ultra orthodox communities.  Drive by the Knesset, Israel's parliament and see the Menorah with the biblical emblems.  Next visit the Israel museum, the Shrine of the book where the Dead Sea scrolls are housed, and the new holyland model - a miniature replica of Jerusalem as it was during the second temple period.  Drive to Mount Hertzel, the military cemetery and Yad Vashem, the memorial to the Holocaust.  Visit the ammunition hill, a former Jordanian army stronghold, conquered by the Israeli army in the Six Day War, and converted into a national memorial site and museum.

Overnight: Jerusalem

Friday

Qumeran / Massada / Dead Sea

Drive through the Judean desert to the Dead Sea.  Stop at Qumeran, the site where the Dead Sea scrolls were found.  Continue to Massada, ascend by cable car and tour the ancient fortress, visiting the remains of the walls, palaces, synagogue, the bathhouses, etc.  Descend by cable car.  Next stop is for lunch and Spa facilities in one of the leading hotels in the area.

Overnight: Jerusalem

Saturday

Leisure day

Overnight: Jerusalem

Sunday

Jerusalem / Ben Gurion Airport

After breakfast, transfer to Ben Gurion Airport for your departure flight.

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