11 DAY JEWISH HERITAGE TOUR OF ISRAEL

ELEVEN DAY TOUR

Day 1 - THURSDAY

Day 2 - FRIDAY
Tel Aviv
Welcome to Israel, upon arrival into Ben Gurion International Airport, you will be met and assisted by our airport representative. Transfer to your hotel in Tel Aviv – – Israel largest and modern city with short distance to Jaffa. Check in at your hotel for overnight rest from your flight. This beautiful city is on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and offers a lively city center with shopping, family attractions, and the popular promendade by the beach with wonderful restaurants, stores, and coffee shops. Time permitting visit relatives, and friends if they live in Tel Aviv, go dining, shopping, or visit the artistic neighborhood of Neve Tzedek.

Included:

• Transfer from Ben Gurion International Airport to your hotel in Tel Aviv.
• Your selection of 5 Star Deluxe to 4 Star Standard hotel accommodations.

Day 3 – SATURDAY
At Leisure
Enjoy a day of leisure in Israel largest and modern city with short distance to Jaffa, shopping and attractions, and famous promenade sidewalk's with outdoor shopping stores, restaurants, and coffee shops. If your time permit, visit the artistic neighborhood of Neve Tzedek.
At leisure Overnight Tel-Aviv.

Included:

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• Your selection of 5 Star Deluxe to 4 Star Standard hotel accommodations.

Day 4 - SUNDAY
Caesarea / Haifa / Acre / Rosh Hanikra
The start of your Jewish Heritage escorted tour begins with a drive along the costal plains in to Caesarea, once Judea capital under Roman rule. See this amazing port city build by built by Herod the Great, explore the aqueduct, amphitheatre, and excavations of the crusaders and ancient city. Continue to Haifa for a breathtaking view from Mount Carmel. We’ll drive to Acre and walk along its old harbor and local market. Continue to the northernmost point of Israel at Rosh Hanikra. Descend by cable into the limestone grottoes.
Overnight Kibbutz guesthouse in Galilee- including Full Buffet Breakfast and Dinner.

Included:

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• Professional certified licensed Tour Guide, entrance fees, and attractions per day itinerary.
• Dinner at your hotel.
• Your selection of 5 Star Deluxe to 4 Star Standard hotel accommodations.

Day 5 – MONDAY
Safed / Gadot / Banias / Tel Hai
After a Israeli breakfast in your hotel we’ll drive to Safed, center of the Kaballa movement; visit the Joseph Caro synagogue and the Ha’Ari synagogue, the most important synagogues in the city; stroll around the Artists' quarter. Next we’ll explore on a Jeep tour at the foot of the Golan. After we continue to Golan Heights and stop at Gadot overlook (Mitzpe Gadot), the memorial site for the fallen of the Golan, located over former Syrian bunkers and see the monument built on site in honor of the Alexandroni brigade; proceed for a magnificent observation point over the city of Keuneitra, and the Syrian territory. Visit the Banias springs. Next we’ll see Tel-Hai and see the “Roaring Lion” monument and learn about the heroic battle of Josef Trumpeldor and his comrades in 1920. Meet with a Kibbutz member and learn about their unique lifestyle.
Overnight Kibbutz guesthouse in Galilee- including Full Buffet Breakfast and Dinner.

Included:

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• Professional certified licensed Tour Guide, entrance fees, and attractions per day itinerary.
• Dinner at your hotel.
• Your selection of 5 Star Deluxe to 4 Star Standard hotel accommodations.

Day 6 - TUESDAY
Beit Shean / Beit Alpha / Gan Hashlosha / Jerusalem
On your Jewish tour today we’ll drive to Tiberias and visit the Tomb of Maimonides (Kever ha-Rambam), one of the most important Jewish pilgrimage sites in Israel honoring the famous Jewish philosopher, and one of Tiberias most visited tourist attractions. Continue our travel on to Beit She'an, the largest archeological park in Israel with amazing excavations from the Roman and Byzantine periods. This site rivals those of ruins in ancient Rome. Next on your tour we stop at Beit Alpha to see beautiful mosaic floors of a synagogue from the Byzantine era. Onto Gan Hashlosha (Sachne), where you will have an opportunity to enjoy 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 with a stop at Mount Scopus for a blessing as you enter the Golden City of Jerusalem.
Overnight Jerusalem- including Full Buffet Breakfast.

Included:

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• Professional certified licensed Tour Guide, entrance fees, and attractions per day itinerary.
• Your selection of 5 Star Deluxe to 4 Star Standard hotel accommodations.

Day 7 – WEDNESDAY
Jerusalem: Old City
Today we begin our heritage tour in the Old City of Jerusalem. We’ll visit the Tomb of King David on Mount Zion, and continue with a walk along the Cardo, an ancient Roman road. After we visit four Sephardic synagogues restored after the 1967 war in the Jewish Quarter. Then continue with a visit to the Western Wall Tunnels along the base of the Western Wall- the holiest site in Judaism and one of the original walls that retained the Temple, leading us through the Second Temple era and marvel at the amazing construction of your ancestors of the Temple Mount. Here we visit the Davidson center and on to the local Arab bazaar, where you can test your negotiating skills with the local vendors. Then walk through the Jaffa gate to David's Tower museum and see ancient remains of the city beginning with the first Temple period.
Overnight in Jerusalem- including Full Buffet Breakfast.

Included:

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• Professional certified licensed Tour Guide, entrance fees, and attractions per day itinerary.
• Your selection of 5 Star Deluxe to 4 Star Standard hotel accommodations.

Day 8 - THURSDAY
Jerusalem: New City
After breakfast we arrive to the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

After time for prayer and reflection on the Western Wall we continue to Mea Shearim, and learn about the unique lifestyle of the ultra orthodox Jewish communities. We’ll continue our Jerusalem tour driving to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament building, and see the Menorah with the biblical emblems. Next visit the Israel Museum, and the Shrine of the Book where the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed, and the new holy land model – a miniature replica of Jerusalem as it was during the second Temple period. Drive to Mount Hertzel, and see the military cemetery and Yad Vashem, the memorial to the Holocaust. Tour 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 in Jerusalem- including Full Buffet Breakfast.

Included:

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• Professional certified licensed Tour Guide, entrance fees, and attractions per day itinerary.
• Your selection of 5 Star Deluxe to 4 Star Standard hotel accommodations.

Day 9 - FRIDAY
Qumran / Massada / Dead Sea
Enjoy and see the Judean Desert when we drive to the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth. Beginning with a stop at Qumran, the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls where found in 1947 by a Bedouin boy. We’ll continue to perhaps one of the most impressive sites in Israel to the fortress of Masada, and the last stronghold of the Jews after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D. Here we ascend by cable car high up to Masada and tour the ancient fortress exploring the food storeroom, water irrigation system, bath houses and Herod’s Palace. After we descend Masada by cable car, and stop for lunch and local spa facilities in one of the leading hotels in the area.
Overnight in Jerusalem- including Full Buffet Breakfast.

Included:

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• Professional certified licensed Tour Guide, entrance fees, and attractions per day itinerary.
• Lunch in the Dead Sea Resort area.
• Your selection of 5 Star Deluxe to 4 Star Standard hotel accommodations.

Day 10 - SATURDAY
At Leisure
At leisure. Enjoy a last day in Israel, take time to say good bye to your family and freinds, or use your last day in Israel to do what you like in this incredible city of Jerusalem.
Overnight in Jerusalem- including Full Buffet Breakfast.

Included:

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• Professional certified licensed Tour Guide, entrance fees, and attractions per day itinerary.
• Your selection of 5 Star Deluxe to 4 Star Standard hotel accommodations.

Day 11 - SUNDAY
Jerusalem / Ben Gurion Airport
Breakfast at your hotel, please check out from your room at 12 noon and leave your luggage with the Hotel Concierge. Pick up time from the hotel lobby to Ben Gurion airport will be 4 hours before your departure flight.

Included:

• Breakfast at your hotel.
• Transfer from your Tel Aviv hotel to the Ben Gurion International Airport for your departure flight back home or to your next destination.

If your flight departs in the morning you will arrive back in America the same day of your departure. If your flight departs in the night you will arrive back to America the following day of your departure.