Discovering Your Jewish Roots

Day 1 – Departure

• Depart USA

Day 2 – Day of Arrival

• Arrival to Israel
• Guide will meet and assist you at airport
• Short tour of Tel Aviv if time permits
• Transfer to hotel in Tel Aviv
• Welcome dinner at hotel
• Overnight & Dinner Tal hotel Tel Aviv https://www.atlas.co.il/tal-hotel-tel-aviv

Day 3 – Full day tour of Tel Aviv

• Breakfast at hotel
• Visit the Palmach Museum
• Drive by Rabin Square
• Visit the famous Carmel Market
• Lunch local falafel
• Explore Jaffa Port
• Visit Neve Zedek neighborhood
• Bauhaus architecture of Tel Aviv
• Rothschild Blvd.
• Independence Hall where the state of Israel was declared
• Overnight & Dinner Tal hotel Tel Aviv

Day 4 – Caesarea, Haifa, Atlit

• Breakfast at hotel
• See Caesarea the Roman Theatre and the Hippodrome OR visit Beit Shearim and the underground catacombs of Yehuda HaNassi
• Drive by Haifa overlooking the Bay and Bahai Gardens
• Visit Atlit former detention camp
• Drive to Tiberius
• Overnight & Dinner: Tiberius, Sofia hotel https://www.sofiahotel.co.il/

Day 5 – Sefat, Golan Heights

• Breakfast at hotel
• Visit Sefat, the city of Kabbalah
• Visit the Golan Heights
• Golan Winery + wine tasting
• Visit Gamla, the “Masada” of the north and see the Griffin Vultures and have the option to take the grueling hike to the ruins.
• Valley of Tears (Yom Kippur War)
• Lookout over Syria from an ancient volcano and Syrian bunkers at Bental
• Kayak down the Jordan River – if weather permits
• Overnight & Dinner: Tiberius, Sofia hotel https://www.sofiahotel.co.il/

Day 6 – Sachne River, Kibbutz, Beth Alpha, Jerusalem

• Breakfast at hotel
• Begin the day with a short tour of Tiberius
• REFRESHING swim in the Sachne River – if weather permits
• Enjoy a ‘chocolate’ break at Deganya, the first Kibbutz + Kibbutz Tour
• Visit Beth Shean excavations
• Visit the Beth Alpha Synagogue
• Drive south via the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem
• Lookout Jerusalem from Scopus + “Shechiaynu”
• Overnight & Dinner: Inbal hotel, Jerusalem https://www.inbalhotel.com/

Day 7 – Jerusalem

• Breakfast at hotel
• Lookout over Jerusalem from of Olives
• Visit the Jewish quarter
• Visit the Western Wall + Tunnels
• Visit the Burnt House/Herodian Quarter
• View the Temple Mount
• Local Tour of the Southern Wall Excavations at the Davidson Center & 3D Model
• Mt Zion
• David’s Tomb
• End the day in the Arab Market
• Overnight & Dinner: Inbal hotel, Jerusalem

 Day 8 – Jerusalem

• Visit the City of David (3D Movie and Journey through Hezekiah’s water Tunnel
• Visit the famous market of Jerusalem “Mahane Yehuda“
• Drive via the orthodox neighborhood “Meah Shearim” and observe Shabbat preparations.
• Possible to drive to Western Wall to observe the singing and dancing welcoming the Shabbat
• Shabbat Dinner at hotel (possible with Israeli family with extra charge)
• Overnight & Dinner: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem

Day   9 – Masada and Dead Sea

• Visit Qumran
• On to Masada and tour Herod the Great’s fortress and hear the magnificent story of the final battle of the Great Revolt.
• Visit Ein Gedi. Hike to the waterfall through the nature reserve, see the ibex and hyrax in their natural habitat and enjoy a fresh-water swim
• Float in the Dead Sea
• Ahava factory
• Overnight & Dinner: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem

Day   10 – Modern Jerusalem

• Drive by the Knesset – The Israeli Parliament
• Visit Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial
• Israel Museum
• Check the best view point to the Old City at Haas Promanade
• End the day with an ice cream and a tour of Ein Kerem the artist colony and monasteries (birthplace of John the Baptist)
• Overnight & Dinner: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem

Day 11 – Free time + Elah Valley + Farewell Dinner

• 12:00 noon late check out of hotel
• Last day for shopping – Free day (Mammilla Avenue /City Center of Jerusalem/Jerusalem Mall)
• Drive to Elah Valley where David fought Golliath
• Farewell Dinner
• Transfer to airport

Day 12 – Departure and Arrival home

• Departure
• Arrival home