JUNE 10th: Arrival in Israel on Delta flight # 490 (Tel Aviv). 

Transfer to Hilton Hotel – Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv + Jaffa exploration (by foot or bicycle) + Carmel Market

Welcome Dinner (TBD)

* Suggested dinner @ Zaken V’Hayam (The Old Man and the Sea)

Sleeping in Tel Aviv – Hilton Hotel

JUNE 11th: A day in the Judean Desert – Jerusalem’s Desert

*** Two vehicles + Two guides *** EREV SHAVUOT

Masada sunrise hike + Cable car (packed box breakfast from hotel)

* Optional post Masada breakfast snack

Ein Bokek Spring or Wadi Arugot Pools (depending on mood)

Shavuot Brunch/Lunch in the field

Dead Sea relaxation

Return to Tel Aviv + Dinner (TBD)

Sleeping in Tel Aviv – Hilton Hotel

JUNE 12th: Chag Shavuot Sameah! Time to head North!

Drive to Akko via Haifa and Atlit

* Visit to Atlit: Immigration Camp ?

Bahai Gardens

Akko Discovery (Lunch @ Savida)

Rosh HaNiqra (Grottos)

* Wadi Kziv swimming (time permitting)

* Montfort Viewpoint (time permitting)

Sleeping at Mitzpe Hayamim

JUNE 13th: B’NEI MITZVOT CELEBRATION! MAZAL TOV!

B’nei Mitzvot celebration in the Galilee (site TBD) – Reform ceremony

*** Tzipori, Tzfat, Mount Meron, Kerem Ben Zimra, Misgav

(Photographer, Videographer, Musicians, Local Rabbi)

Bar Mitzvah lunch

Visit to IDF base + BBQ (base TBD)

Sleeping at Mitzpe Hayamim

JUNE 14th: Golan Heights – Rappelling, Geopolitics, Wine and the Druze!

*** Two guides + Two cars***

Black Canyon Rappelling / Tel Dan National Park + Mount Hermon via ski lift

Druze Lunch in the field

Winery

Mount Bental

Sunset over the Sea of Galilee

Sleeping at Mitzpe Hayamim

JUNE 15th: The Jezreel Valley and Journey to Jerusalem

Beit Shean (Roman City)

Lunch

Journey to Jerusalem

City of David (water tunnel included)

*** Dinner in Jerusalem @ SADNA or Kadosh or Chakra

Sleeping in Jerusalem: King David, Mamila, Arthur Hotel, Waldorf, Harmony

JUNE 16th: A bit of Jerusalem and Gush Eziyon

07:30 visit to Temple Mount ?

Breakfast

Caliber 3 + Lunch

Western Wall tunnels

Dinner @ SADNA, Kadosh or Chakra

Sleeping in Jerusalem: King David, Mamila, Arthur Hotel, Waldorf, Harmony

JUNE 17th: Friday before Shabbat in Jerusalem

Yad V’Shem + Mount Herzl

* Scavenger Hunt in Jewish Quarter or Nahlaot?

Mahane Yehuda Market (Food tasting ?)

Synagogue @ Kol HaNeshama (Reform synagogue)

Dinner @ SADNA or Chakra or Orthodox Jerusalem family?

Sleeping in Jerusalem: King David, Mamila, Arthur Hotel, Waldorf, Harmony

JUNE 18th: Shabbat Shalom! Old City full day

Mount of Olives view point

Old City

* Ein Pratt – Judean Desert oasis and spring ?

Farewell Dinner @ Mahneyuda

Sleeping in Jerusalem: King David, Mamila, Arthur Hotel, Waldorf, Harmony

JUNE 19th: Sunday farewell, yet the journey continues

12:00 departure from Ben Gurion Airport (Greg’s team)

JUNE 19th: Heading down south

Drive to Eilat via the Negev

Crater discovery, Mitzpe Ramon

Sleeping in Eilat TBD

JUNE 20th: PETRA!

Cross into Jordan: Yitzhak Rabin crossing (Eilat)

PETRA FULL DAY

Return to Israel via Aqaba crossing