| Day 1 – Saturday |
| Ben Gurion Airport/Tel Aviv |
Arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, where you will be met by our representative and
transferred to your hotel. Overnight: Tel
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| Day 2 – Sunday |
| Diaspora Museum/Caesarea Druze Villages |
| Depart Tel Aviv and drive to the Diaspora Museum for a visit. Proceed along the coastal plain to Caesarea, capital of Judea under the Romans. See the excavations of the Crusader city and the Roman port, aqueduct and the amphitheater that has been restored to its former glory as a concert venue. Continue via the Druze villages to Haifa. Overnight: Haifa x 1 night. [B] |
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| Day 3 – Monday |
| Haifa/Safed/Golan Heights |
| The tour of Haifa will begin at the summit of Mount Carmel where you will take in a breathtaking panoramic view of the Haifa Bay and Western Galilee. Continue on to the golden domed Bahai Shrine to visit the exotic Persian Gardens. Proceed to Safed, the center of Jewish mysticism, where you will visit the ancient synagogues and the artists’ colony. Continue to the Golan Heights to see the former Syrian bunkers, Kuneitra and the new Israeli town of Katzrin. Overnight: Kibbutz x 1 night. [B] |
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| Day 4 – Tuesday |
| Sea of Galilee/Nazareth |
| Start the day with a visit of Tiberias. Drive to Capernaum to see the ruins of the synagogue and octagonal church of St. Peter and then proceed to Nazareth. Here you will visit the church of the Annunciation. Drive via Beit Shean to Beit Alpha to see the remains of the mosaic floor of an ancient synagogue depicting the zodiac. Overnight: Jerusalem x 5 nights. [B] |
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| Day 5 – Wednesday |
| Jerusalem: The Old City |
| Visit the tomb of King David and the room of the Last Supper on Mt. Zion. Enter the walled city and walk through the newly restored Jewish Quarter. Visit the Roman Cardo, the Herodian Quarter and continue to the Western Wall. Walk along the Via Dolorosa to the church of the Holy Sepulcher, proceed to Mount Scopus and then to the Mount of Olives for a magnificent panoramic view of the Old City. Continue to Bethlehem (Circums-tances permitting), stopping at Rachel’s Tomb and to visit the Church of the Nativity. [B] |
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| Jerusalem: The New City |
| Drive to the Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem to see the Chagall stained glass |
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| windows. Proceed to Bayit Vegan to visit the miniature model of Jerusalem as it was during the Second Temple period. Continue to Yad Vashem, the memorial to the Holocaust and then to the Israel Museum. Visit the Shrine of the Book where the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed and see the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, and the Givat Ram Campus of the Hebrew University. [B] |
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| Day 7 – Friday |
| Qumran/Masada/Dead Sea |
| Drive through the Judean Desert to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, almost 1300 feet (400 meters) below sea level. Stop at Qumran to visit the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Drive along the shores of the Dead Sea to Masada. Ascend by cable car and tour the ancient fortress where the Zealots made their last stand against the Romans before committing mass suicide in 73 AD. Descend by cable car, time and weather permitting, an opportunity will be provided to float on the Dead Sea. [B] |
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| Jerusalem |
| At leisure in Jerusalem. [B] |
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| Jerusalem / Ben Gurion Airport |
| Transfer to the Airport for departure or optional extension. [B] |
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