Itinerary: Tel Aviv-North-Jerusalem-Eilat-Jerusalem
- Saturday
- Depart for your transatlantic flight to Israel.
- Sunday
- Arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport. Meeting and assistance through customs. Transfer to Jerusalem. Shehechyanu ceremony upon entering the city. Overnight in Jerusalem.
- Monday
- Breakfast at hotel. Our first glimpse at Israel past and present, starting with The Ayalon Institute Museum, the underground munitions factory that operated during the Pre State Period. View the Weizmann institute. Visit the IDF Memorial and Tank Museum at Latrun. End the day at Mini-Israel. Overnight in Jerusalem.
Optional: Kabalat Shabbat at the Western Wall.
- Tuesday
- Breakfast at hotel. Depart Tel Aviv traveling north along the Coastal Highway. Visit the new excavations and Panorama walk along the Mediterranean Sea in Caesarea. Travel via the Carmel Mountains to Haifa. View the recently completed hanging Bahai Gardens. Visit the underground tunnel and Crusader Halls in Acco. Proceed to Rosh Hanikra. Ascend by cable car to visit the White Grottos. Overnight at Kfar Blum Guesthouse.
- Wednesday
- Breakfast at Guesthouse. Visit Na'ot factory. Tour of the Golan Heights. Visit Katzerin; both the Meshnaic town and modern town with its famous Golan winery. Visit Safed, the center of Jewish Mysticism. Tour its Old Synagogue and art Galleries. End the day rafting/canoeing down the Jordan River. Overnight at Kfar Blum guesthouse.
- Thursday
- Breakfast at Guesthouse. Depart through the rolling hills of the upper Galilee to Tiberias. View Lake Kineret. Visit Tzippori Talmudic Village and 1st century capital of the
Galilee. Drive to the Sachne. Visit the nature reserve and freshen up at the springs.
Drive to Jerusalem. Overnight in Jerusalem.
- Friday
- Breakfast at hotel. We join the experts of Archeological Seminars for A Dig For A Day program at Tel-Maresha. We visit the Beit Guvrin Caves and the Roman Collumbarium. Proceed via Beit Shemesh and Ellah valley (where David fought Goliath) to the Scroll of Fire.
Optional: Visit Me'a Shearim and Beit Israel neighborhoods. Overnight in Jerusalem.
Shabbat Shalom.
- Saturday
- Free at leisure in Jerusalem. Overnight in Jerusalem.
- Sunday
- Breakfast at hotel. Tour the New City of Jerusalem. Guided tour of the Knesset, Israel's parliament. Visit the Supreme Court, Yad Vashem - The Holocaust memorial, including the
Childrens' Pavilion and the Valley of the Lost Communities. Visit Hadassah Hospital's
Chagall Windows. End the day with a visit to the Israel Museum and the Shrine
of the Book. Overnight in Jerusalem.
- Monday
- Breakfast at hotel. Enter the Old City via the Dung gate. View the Southern Wall excavations. Visit Davidson Center and Archeological Park. Guided tour of The Western Wall Tunnels, the underground continuation of the Western Wall along the Temple Mount. Walk along the Cardo valences, The Herodian Mansions and The Jewish Quarter to Mount Zion.
Overnight in Jerusalem.
- Tuesday
- Breakfast at hotel. Depart Jerusalem via the Judean desert along the Dead Sea shore to
Massada. Visit King Herod's Fortress and the Jewish Zealots last stronghold. Swim at the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth. Drive to Mitzpe Ramon. Overnight at Ramon Inn.
- Wednesday
- Breakfast at hotel. Board your jeep at the Ramon visitor's center and explore all the nooks and crannies of the Crater. Drive via the Arava highway to Eilat. Overnight in Eilat.
- Thursday
- Breakfast at hotel. Camel tour of Eilat Mountains at Chavat Shacharut, followed by Bedouin experience. Visit the Underwater Observatory and Museum. Overnight in Eilat.
- Friday
- Breakfast at hotel. Depart Eilat. Visit Timna Park. Visit Ohel Mo'ed and the Copper
quarries. Drive to Ein Gedi for a hike to Nachal David waterfalls. Drive to Jerusalem.
Overnight in Jerusalem. Shabbat Shalom.
- Saturday
- Breakfast at hotel. Free at leisure in Jerusalem. Overnight in Jerusalem.
- Sunday
- Transfer to Ben Gurion airport for departure.