Israel
Highlight Tour
Day 1 - Thursday:
Arrival
B’ruchim Ha’Ba’im! Welcome! Arrive Ben Gurion Airport. Transfer to your hotel in Tel
Aviv for overnight.
Day 2 - Friday
Haifa ¤
Acco
Leave Tel Aviv and travel north along the
Mediterranean coast to Haifa. Drive up to the peak of Mt.. Carmel
to enjoy the panoramic view of Haifa. Continue via Acre to Rosh Hanikra,
descend by cable car to visit the grottos and the Lebanese border, then drive to
Tzippori, the ancient capital of the Galilee to
see recent excavations including beautiful mosaics. Drive to Kibbutz Guest House
for overnight. (B)
Day 3 –
Saturday
Nazareth ¤ Upper Galilee ¤
Golan Heights
Travel through the Galilee to Nazareth and visit the Church of Annunciation. Continue through the Upper
Galilee and ascend the Golan Heights. Visit the
former Syrian fortifications, Birkat Ram and the Druze villages, and continue
via Banias, source of the Jordan River. Return
to the Kibbutz for overnight. (B)
Day 4 – Sunday
Tiberias ¤ Capernaum
Continue along the shores of the Sea of Galilee to
Capernaum, visit
the ruins of the ancient synagogue, then on to the Mt.. of Beatitudes and
through the city of Tiberias, the ancient centre of Jewish
learning. Continue south to the Valley of Armageddon. Visit the multi-layered mound
of Megiddo, with
the impressive remains from the age of the Biblical Kings. Procced to Tel Aviv-Jaffa for a short
city tour and overnight. . (B)
Day 5 – Monday
Beersheba ¤ Arad ¤ Massada ¤ Jerusalem
Leave Tel-Aviv - via Ashdod - Ashkelon- Beersheba. A short visit to the Negev capital. Continue via Arad to
Massada, ascend the fortress which was the last stronghold of the Jewish
Zealots in their war against the Romans. Visit the excavations, Herod’s palace,
the synagogue, bath houses, etc.., overlooking the Roman camps and the
Dead Sea. Enjoy a swim in the salty waters of
the Dead Sea (time permitting). Proceed to
Jerusalem for
overnight. (B)
Day 6 – Tuesday
Jerusalem ¤ Sightseeing of
New City
Drive to Mt.
Scopus for a view of Jerusalem. Then to the
Garden of
Gethsemane and the 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’s Shrine of the Book with its famous Dead Sea
Scrolls, the Knesset Building (Parliament), the Hebrew University campus, Mt. Herzl and Yad Vashem (the memorial to the
six million killed in the Holocaust). Then visit the model of the Herodian city
of Jerusalem dating back to the time of the
Second
Temple. Continue to the
Hadassah medical Centre for a short visit to the synagogue with Marc Chagall
stained-glass windows. Overnight in Jerusalem. (B)
Day 7 –
Wednesday
Jerusalem ¤ Old City ¤
Bethlehem
Walk through the Jaffa Gate to the Old City; visit the renewed Jewish quarter and
the Western Wall. See the Temple area. Walk through the colourful bazaars
to the Via Dolorosa, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Continue to Bethlehem (subject to security situation) to visit Rachel’s Tomb and the Church of
the Nativity and return to Jerusalem for overnight.
(B)
Day 8 – Thursday:
Departure
Late evening transfer to Ben Gurion
Airport, or continue on to Eilat, Jordan or Egypt.
(B)
For Sunday Arrival the Sequence of the itinerary
might change.
Please note all itineraries are subject to change
due to local conditions without any prior notification.
