MONDAY– ARRIVAL
Upon arrival to airport meet our representative and transfer to hotel in Jerusalem for overnight.

TUESDAY – JERUSALEM – SIGHTSEEING OF THE NEW CITY
Drive to Mt’ Scopus for a 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 bldg. 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.

WEDNESDAY – JERUSALEM ( OLD CITY) – BETHLEHEM**
Walk through the Jaffa Gate to the City: the renewed Jewish Quarter, the Western Wall, the Temple area, the colorful bazars, 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.

THURSDAY– JERICHO**– BEIT SHEAN – TIBERIAS – GALILEE
Leave Jerusalem, and drive north via Jericho*, the oldest city in the world. Then via the Jordan Valley and the new settlements to Beit Shean. Visit the excavations of this beautiful Roman 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.

FRIDAY – UPPER GALILEE AND GOLAN HEIGHTS – NAZARETH
Drive to the Golan Heights. Visit the former Syrian fortifications, Birkat Ram, and the Druze villages. Via Banias, source of the Jordan River, proceed via Kiryat Shmone and the Hula Valley to Safed. 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.

SATURDAY – ACRE – HAIFA – TEL AVIV
Leave the Kibbutz hotel for Acre to visit the old, famous Crusader stronghold and medieval fortifications. Continue to Haifa, sightseeing tour of 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.

SUNDAY – TEL AVIV
A day at leisure in Tel Aviv.

MONDAY – DEPARTURE
Breakfast and transfer to the airport for your departure.
**Site under the Palestinian Authority Jurisdiction. Visit subjugated to situation