Monday

Arrive Tel Aviv airport. Transfer to your hotel in Jerusalem.

  GRAND COURT  HOTEL, Jerusalem

Tuesday

Drive to Mt’ Scopus for view of Jerusalem, then to the Garden of Gethsemane and Church of the Agony. Drive to Mt’ Zion for a visit to the tomb of King David, the Room of the Last Supper and Dormition Abbey.

Sightseeing in the new city including the Israel Museum, the Shrine of the Book, with the famous Dead Sea scrolls, new Supreme Court building. Proceed to Mt’ Herzl and Yad Vashem (the memorial to the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust). Then visit the model of the Heordian city of Jerusalem dating back to the time of the Second Temple. Visit the synagogue with Marc Chagall stained glass windows at the Hadassah Medical Center, then via Ein Karem (the birth place of John the Baptist). Return to Hotel. (b,d)

   Overnight GRAND COURT  HOTEL, Jerusalem

Wednesday

Walk through the Jaffa Gate to the City: the renewed Jewish Quarter, the Western Wall, the Temple area, then colorful bazaars, Via Dolorosa, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Continue to Bethlehem to visit Rachel’s Tomb and the Church of the Nativity and return to Jerusalem for overnight. (b,d)

   Overnight GRAND COURT  HOTEL, Jerusalem

Thursday

Jerusalem/Galilee

Leave Jerusalem and drive north via Jericho, the oldest city in the world. Then through the Jordan Valley and the new settlements to Beit Shean. Visit the excavations of this beautiful Roman Decapolis city. Proceed to Tiberias, the old center of Jewish learning. Drive along the shores of the Sea of Galilee to Capernaum to visit the ruins of the ancient synagogue.

Continue to a Kibbutz hotel for overnight. (b,d)                                  

   Overnight GALILEE KIBBUTZ, KFAR GILADI, Galilee

Friday

Galilee

Drive to the Golan Heights. Visit the former Syrian fortifications, Birkat Ram, and the Druze Drive to the Golan Heights. Visit the former Syrian fortifications, Birkat Ram, and the Druze villages. Via Banias, source of the Jordan River proceed to Kiryat Shmone and the Hula Valley to Safed. Continue to City of the Kabbalah, to visit the old synagogue and artists’ colony and then to Nazareth to visit the Christian holy sites.

Return to the Kibbutz hotel for overnight. . (b,d)

   Overnight GALILEE KIBBUTZ, KFAR GILADI, Galilee

Saturday    

Leave the Kibbutz hotel for Acre to visit the old, famous Crusader stronghold and medieval fortifications. Continue to Haifa, including the Bahai Shrine.  Persian Garden and Mount Carmel for a panoramic view of the city. Proceed southwards to Caesarea to visit the Roman theater and the Crusader fortress. Drive via Natanya to Tel Aviv. (b,d)

  Overnight  GRAND BEACH HOTEL,  Tel Aviv

 Sunday

Day at leisure in Tel Aviv. (b,d)

                        OPTIONAL:

                        MASSADA and DEAD SEA tours available.  $120.00

     Overnight  GRAND BEACH HOTEL,  Tel Aviv

Monday

Tel Aviv/USA

Inclusive features

      All transfers, and sightseeing by motor coach

      Breakfast and dinner daily

      All hotels (or similar) as per itinerary

-     All taxes and service charges

Upgrade to 4 star superior hotel per person for the entire stay  additional $350.00 per person

COSTS PER PERSON - LAND ONLY

BASED ON LOW SEASON RATES

Travel agent                $1330.00     

Spouse/companion     $1430.00    

Single supplement      $  450.00     

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