14 DAY JEWISH HERITAGE TOUR OF ISRAEL WITH EILAT
Everything about this tour is “grand.” Experience our 14-day grand Jewish heritage tour of Israel including two nights on the Red Sea beach destination of Eilat; after a leisure day in the modern city of Tel Aviv travel north to Caesarea, continue to Haifa for a panoramic view of Mount Carmel, next AF AL PI CHEN naval museum, after drive to UNESCO World Heritage site Acre, continue to Rosh Hanikra and the limestone grottoes, next to Safed, Joseph Caro & Ha’Ari synagogues, the Artist Quarter, and then a desert Jeep Tour in the Golan, stop at an observation point in Golan Heights, after Tel Facher, and visit the Banias springs, and Tal-Hai. We drive to Tiberias and tour the Tomb of Maimonides, on to Beit She’an the largest archeological park, next to Beit Alpha, Gan Hashlosha, Mount Scopus, and on to the Golden City of Jerusalem. Explore Old Jerusalem; the Tomb of King David, Mount Zion, Cardo, Sephardic synagogues, the Jewish Quarter, Western Wall Tunnels, and Western Wall, Temple Mount, and Davidson center, walk through Jaffa gate and enter David’s Tower Museum. The next day is New Jerusalem; Mea Shearim, the Knesset, the Menorah, then enter Israel Museum and see the Shrine of the Book, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, on to Mount Hertzel, witness Yad Vashem the Holocaust museum, and last tour Ammunition Hill. On this day of touring experience the Dead Sea, Qumran, and the Masada fortress. Come back to Jerusalem for a day of Leisure to give time to explore Jerusalem on your own or visit friends and relatives. Travel south to the Negev desert and visit Hatzerim, next learn about the Bedouin, continue to Sde Boker Kibbutz, see Ben Gurion’s hut and grave, Zin valley, and stop at Ramon crater, after arriving at Eilat. Enjoy a day of leisure and relaxing time on the shores of the Red Sea in Eilat, take an opportunity to visit UNESCO World Heritage site Petra as an optional tour. On your last day of touring experience the Negev desert, Timna valley, and see the copper mines, King Solomon’s pillars, and after see Eilat’s underwater observatory.
TRAVEL ON A GRAND JEWISH HERITAGE TOUR IN ISRAEL
TOUR DEPARTS THURSDAY AND ARRIVES ON FRIDAY IN TEL AVIV ISRAEL
- 14 Days / 12 Nights Fully Escorted Tour of Israel
- Jewish Tour of Israel
- Stay in a 5 Star Deluxe Hotel to 4 Star Standard Hotel Accommodations
- Stay two nights in the Red Sea at Eilat beach resort area
- Breakfast Buffet Daily
- Two Dinners included at Kibbutz Lavi
- One Lunch included in the Dead Sea
- Option to celebrate Bar Mitzvah / Bat Mitzvah ceremony
- English speaking Tour Guides that know historical sites, Israeli history and the land of Israel
- Professional Tour Guide Certified by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism
- NO ADDED FEES FOR CREDIT CARD PAYMENT
Itinerary
FOURTEEN DAY TOUR
Day 1 - THURSDAY
Departure on your way to Israel, The Land of the Bible.
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 dinner and 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 and enjoy vacation time on your own.
Overnight Tel Aviv- including Full Buffet Breakfast.
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- including Full Buffet Breakfast.
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 grand 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. Next 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 grand 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 grand 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 day in Israel, take time to visit your family and friends, or use your leisure day in Israel to do what you like in the birth place of the world's three major religions, the city of Jerusalem.
Overnight in Jerusalem- including Full Buffet Breakfast.
Included:
- Breakfast at your hotel.
- Your selection of 5 Star Deluxe to 4 Star Standard hotel accommodations.
Day 11 - SUNDAY
Beer-Sheva / Sde Boker / Mitzpe Ramon/ Eilat
Travel south to the Negev desert, visit Israel’s airforce museum at Hatzerim to view the planes and equipment and hear the story of this brave fighting force. Stop for a Camel riding experience and visit to an authentic Bedouin tent to learn about the Bedouin people, and enjoy a light lunch during our tour. Continue to Sde Boker Kibbutz and see Ben Gurion’s hut and grave overlooking the magnificent Zin valley. Stop at Mitzpe Ramon to gaze into the Ramon crater, a geological wonder.
Arrive to Eilat for overnight.
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 12 - MONDAY
At Leisure
Day at leisure in Eilat, Stroll around the city’s streets, the beach promenade and enjoy Eilat or take an Optional tour to Petra.
Overnight Eilat- 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 13 - TUESDAY
Eilat / Timna / Tel Aviv
We'll travel south on our holy land journey through the Negev desert; Explore Timna valley and see the copper mines and King Solomon’s pillars and marvel at the huge multi-colored rock formations. Continue to Eilat and stop to visit the Eilat's underwater observatory, one of the largest seaquariums in the world, built into a coral reef. After we'll travel to Tel Aviv
Overnight Tel Aviv- 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 14 - WEDNESDAY
Tel Aviv / 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.
Petra Tour: 1 Day Tour of Petra.
Jordan Tour : 3 Day Tour of Jordan with Petra excursion.
Rates
FOURTEEN DAY JEWISH TOUR TO ISRAEL
| City | Nights | (A) 5 Star Deluxe Hotels │ | (C) 4 Star Moderate Hotels │ | (D) 4 Star Standard Hotels │ |
| Tel Aviv | 3 | Dan Tel Aviv Hotel (Deluxe Room) | Dan Panorama Tel Aviv | Prima City Hotel Tel Aviv |
| Galilee | 2 | Kibbutz Hotel Lavi (Deluxe Room) | Kibbutz Hotel Lavi (Superior Room) | Kibbutz Hotel Lavi (Superior Room) |
| Jerusalem | 5 | The King David Jerusalem (Deluxe New City Room) | Dan Panorama Jerusalem | Prima Kings Hotel |
| Eilat | 2 | Dan Eilat (New Eilat Room) | Dan Panorama Eilat | Prima Music Eilat |
Prices are land package prices based on double occupancy and are per person in U.S. dollars inclusive of all taxes.
Tour |
Tour |
(A) 5 Star Deluxe |
(A) In Single |
(C) 4 Star Moderate |
(C) In Single |
(D) 4 Star Standard |
(D) In Single |
Book Tour |
| Oct 19, 2023 | Nov 01, 2023 | $6861 | $11213 | $4441 | $6634 | $3581 | $4976 | Book Tour |
| Oct 26, 2023 | Nov 08, 2023 | $6861 | $11213 | $4441 | $6634 | $3581 | $4976 | Book Tour |
| Nov 02, 2023 | Nov 15, 2023 | $6861 | $11213 | $4441 | $6634 | $3581 | $4976 | Book Tour |
| Nov 09, 2023 | Nov 22, 2023 | $6861 | $11213 | $4441 | $6634 | $3581 | $4976 | Book Tour |
| Nov 23, 2023 | Dec 06, 2023 | $5638 | $8861 | $4241 | $6311 | $3413 | $4696 | Book Tour |
| Nov 30, 2023 | Dec 13, 2023 | $5576 | $8734 | $3781 | $5396 | $3378 | $4581 | Book Tour |
| Dec 07, 2023 | Dec 20, 2023 | $5576 | $8734 | $3781 | $5396 | $3378 | $4581 | Book Tour |
| Dec 07, 2023 | Dec 20, 2023 | $5576 | $8734 | $3781 | $5396 | $3378 | $4581 | Book Tour |
| Dec 21, 2023 | Jan 03, 2024 | $6178 | $9873 | $4250 | $5822 | $3336 | $4497 | Book Tour |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 10, 2024 | $6830 | $11128 | $4666 | $5935 | $3476 | $4777 | Book Tour |
| Jan 04, 2024 | Jan 17, 2024 | $6830 | $11128 | $4666 | $5935 | $3476 | $4777 | Book Tour |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Jan 24, 2024 | $5367 | $8337 | $-- | $-- | $3336 | $4497 | Book Tour |
| Jan 18, 2024 | Jan 31, 2024 | $5367 | $8337 | $-- | $-- | $3336 | $4497 | Book Tour |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Feb 28, 2024 | $5367 | $8337 | $3781 | $5396 | $3336 | $4497 | Book Tour |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Mar 07, 2024 | $5367 | $8337 | $3781 | $5396 | $3336 | $4497 | Book Tour |
| from | to | (A) 5 Star Deluxe Child Rate 2 to 12 Years |
(C) 4 Star Moderate Child Rate 2 to 12 Years |
(D) 4 Star Standard Child Rate 2 to 12 Years |
| Oct 19, 2023 | Mar 07, 2024 | $3682 | $2680 | $2630 |
| Private Passengers | Supplement Per Person in a Car |
| 2 | $2835.00 |
| 3 | $1768.00 |
| 4 | $1080.00 |
| 5 | $658.00 |
| 6 | $428.00 |
| 7 | $274.00 |
| 8 | $112.00 |
Included
1. Meet & assistance on arrival and departure at Ben Gurion International Airport.
2. Airport & hotel transfers on arrival and departure.
3. Porterage at airport and hotels.
4. Eight days sightseeing as per program.
5. Professional certified English speaking Tour Guide.
6. Deluxe air-conditioned motorcoach.
7. Entrance fees as per Jewish Heritage Tour itinerary.
8. Twelve nights hotel accommodation at the above-mentioned hotels or similar category.
9. Meal arrangements: Full Israeli buffet breakfast and dinners at Kibbutz Lavi in Galilee, and one lunch in Dead Sea.
10. No added fees for credit card payment.
Not included services in our tour rates:
1. Tips to guide/driver and hotel/restaurant staff.
2. Personal extras or meals not mentioned above.
3. Lunches.
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