Day 1 : Sunday - Tel-Aviv
Overnight flight to Tel-Aviv.

Day 2 : Monday - Tel Aviv - Jerusalem
Arrival at Ben Gurion Airport. Meeting and assistance and transfer to Jerusalem for overnight.

Day 3 : Tuesday - Jerusalem
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 (the Parliament), the Hebrew University campus, Mt. Herzl and Yad Vashem (the memorial to the six million Jews that were killed during the Holocaust). Visit the model of the Herodian city of Jerusalem dating back to the time of the Second Temple. Continue to the Hadassah Medical Centre to visit the synagogue with its Marc Chagall stained-glass windows. Overnight in Jerusalem. BD

Day 4 : Wednesday - Jerusalem
Walk through the Yaffa Gate to the Old City: the renewed Jewish Quarter, the Western Wall, the Temple area, the colorful bazaars, Via Dolorosa, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Continue to Bethlehem to visit Rachel's tomb and the Church of the Nativity. Return to Jerusalem for overnight. BD

Day 5 : Thursday - Jerusalem / Galilee
Leave Jerusalem. Drive via Bethany to Jericho, the oldest city in the world. Visit the excavations and then continue northward via the Jordan Valley and the new settlements to Beit Shean. After a short visit proceed to Tiberias, the old centre 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. BD

Day 6 : Friday - Galilee
Drive to the Golan Heights. Visit the former Syrian fortification, Birkat Ram and the Druse villages. Via Banias, source of the Jordan River. Proceed to Kiryat Shmona and the Hula Valley to Safed, city of the Kabbalah, to visit the old synagogue and the artists' colony and then to Nazareth to visit the Christian holy sites. Return to the Kubbutz hotel for overnight. BD

Day 7 : Saturday - Galilee / 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 Mt. 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 for overnight. BD

Day 8 : Sunday - Tel- Aviv
Day at leisure in Tel-Aviv, or optional excursions to the Dead Sea and Massada. Overnight in Tel-Aviv. BD

Day 9 : Monday - Tel-Aviv / USA
Transfer to Ben Gurion Airport for return flight. B

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