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Hanukkah Family Mission with Rabbi Adam Raskin December 22, 2019 – January 3, 2020

“One does not travel to , one returns.”

Tour Package Includes: • Hotels: Crowne Plaza Tel Aviv; Ramot Resort, Inbal Jerusalem, Mitzpe Ramon. • All Breakfasts, Shabbat and Lunch Dinner, 6 Weekday dinners and lunches as per itinerary View and download itinerary • Touring with Rabbi Adam Raskin and one of ’s Top Tour Guide educators in a WiFi and application at enabled deluxe touring Motor Coach www.israeltour.com/rraskin

For additional information A Few Tour Highlights: please contact • Light Hanukkah Candles: Evening tour of Old Jaffa, ancient port city, once known as the Zion Gate Leslie Albershardt • Nachalat Binyamin crafts fair, checkout the nearby Carmel Market and bohemian Sheinkin Street [email protected], • Discover the world of the Maccabees at the Hasmonean Village on Moshav Shilat 301-299-7087 ext.223 • Palmach Museum in Ramat Aviv to learn about the elite underground organization which played a Tour arranged by critical role in the founding of the State of Israel ITC Tours LLC - Tour manager • Explore the ruins of Tzippori, the city where Rabbi Judah Hanasi sealed the Mishna [email protected] • Tour Tzfat's old synagogues and alleyways, discover the origins of our Friday night service 800-247-7235 • Visit the Golan Heights for a special perspective on Israel's complex geopolitics • Hanukkah candlelighting and dinner with young Israeli soldiers • Discover Ethiopian Jewish culture at the Germachin Center and learn about their personal stories • Join hundreds of other Jews from around the world to Greet the Sabbath at the Western Wall • Shabbat morning services at a local Masorti (Conservative) synagogue • Option: B'nai Mitzvah ceremony at the egalitarian Masorti Kotel • Discover the archaeological story of the Western Wall and episodes of Jewish life in Jerusalem • Travel into Judean Desert ascend Masada tour the ruins of Herod's palace and social action center • Tour David Ben Gurion's House Kibbutz Sde Boker and the Museum at Hatzerim • Tour exotic orchard, followed by a gourmet farewell dinner at Ora’s Yard on Moshav Kfar Maimon

Trip Costs and Reductions

Land Only Package – $4155 Land Only Package – $4325 Reductions: for 3rd or 4th in a room Discounted price for check payment Full price for credit card payment 3rd person in a room – Subtract $450 Land and Air Package – $6355 Full cost Land and Air Package – $6610 Child, ages 2-12, as 3rd person in a room – Subtract $320 Discounted price for check payment Full price for credit card payment Bar/Bat Mitzvah child as 3rd person – Subtract $425 Single Room Supplement – $1550 Single Room Supplement – $1628 rd th Discounted price for check payment Full price for credit card payment 3 and 4 child in a quad – Subtract $200

Added to the costs above are tips for Guide, Driver, Restaurants, and Porterage – $195 Tour price is based on minimum of 25 participants. Round trip air available through ITC Tours call Yafa at 800-247-7235 Hanukkah Family Mission with Rabbi Raskin (Draft: October 16, 2018; Subject to change)

Sunday, December 22 Ein Zivan (Possibility of splitting the group): and episodes of Jewish life in Jerusalem Depart USA Chocolate making workshop at the De Karina 2,000 years ago at Robinson's Arch and the Chocolate Factory or: Tour and wine tasting Southern Wall Excavations. Walk through Monday, December 23 – Going Up Into the at the boutique Pelter Winery • Hanukkah the Western Wall Tunnels to discover Land candlelighting and dinner with young Israeli underground Jerusalem including a new 4:30pm Arrive in Israel to be met and soldiers who are giving some of the best discovery connected to the Hanukkah story • assisted by your ITC representative (today’s years of their lives to the defense of Israel Visit the traditional prayer area of the program depends on arrival time) • Evening Overnight: Ramot Resort Western Wall • Festive B'nai Mitzvah lunch at tour of Old Jaffa, the ancient port city, once Between the Arches Restaurant • Multimedia known as the Zion Gate, through which Friday, December 27 – Across Israel: tour of the new Six Day War Heritage Jonah fled and Solomon brought the Cedars Many Faces of the Jewish People Museum at Ammunition Hill, the site of the of Lebanon • Shehekhiyanu–Welcome Discover Ethiopian Jewish culture at the fiercest battle in the Six Day War or: Guided ceremony • Check-in to the Crowne Germachin Center in Beit Shean • Hear tour of the new Hebrew Music Museum Plaza Hotel on Tel Aviv's Mediterranean a personal account of this community's in downtown Jerusalem's Nachalat Shiva Coast • Welcome dinner at Maganda modern day Exodus story and about the neighborhood to learn about the history of Yemenite Restaurant • Light Hanukkah challenges facing the Ethiopian Israeli Jewish music from biblical times and through candles together at restaurant community today • Did the Jews in Ethiopia seven different regions of the Diaspora • Overnight: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tel Aviv know about Hanukkah? When did they Recommendation: Coffee and dessert at one lose contact with the rest of the Jewish of the cafés in adjacent Music Square and Tuesday, December 24 – The Hebrew City people? • Lunch on own • Continue south listen to an open air performance. Then check and the Jewish State through the Jordan Valley and ascend out the nearby Ben Yehuda Street Pedestrian Visit Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to hear about to Jerusalem • Shekhiyanu–Welcome Mall • Free evening • Dinner on own Israeli society's soul searching in the ceremony overlooking the Old City of Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem aftermath of the assassination of Prime Jerusalem • Check-in to the Inbal Hotel in Minister Yitzhak Rabin • Lunch on your Jerusalem • Free time to relax and prepare Tuesday, December 31 – Masada and the own and free time to explore the Nachalat for Shabbat • Light Shabbat and Hanukkah Dead Sea: Freedom Fighters or Fanatics? Binyamin crafts fair. While there checkout candles together before setting off for one Set out early across the Judean Desert and the nearby Carmel Market and try out of the following: Friday/Shabbat evenings ascend Masada by cable car to tour the Sufganiyot (jelly donuts) – Israel's favorite options: Join hundreds of other Jews from ruins of Herod's palace and the last outpost Hanukkah pastry • Discover the world of the around the world to Greet the Sabbath at the of Jewish independence. Discussion: Which Maccabbees at the Hasmonean Village on Western Wall. Option to pray together as a Jewish Legacy – Masada or Yavne? What Moshav Shilat, by participating in interactive congregation at the "Masorati Kotel", where decision did our ancesters make? • Swim in drama about Mattathias and his sons and men and women can stand together or attend the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth, at ancient crafts, including pressing olive Friday night services at a local Jerusalem a local resort. The resort also has a fresh oil and making your own Hasmonean oil synagogue • Festive Shabbat Dinner at hotel water pool and spa facilities. Massage and lamp • Return to Tel Aviv • Light Hanukkah Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem spa treatments available by prior reservation Candles together as a group before at own expense • Lunch at Dead Sea setting out for a free evening • Dinner on Shabbat/Saturday, December 28 – And on resort • Travel to Negev Highlands. Time own • Recommendation for the evening: the Seventh Day.…in Jerusalem permitting: Look out at the majestic Zin Check out the Sarona neighborhood, a Shabbat morning services at a local Masorti Cliffs from Ben Gurion's Gravesite • Check new restaurant-café and shopping area in (Conservative) synagogue, followed by in to the Beresheet Hotel or the Ramon Inn a recently restored fomer German colony kiddush and an update on the Masorti (Pundak Ramon) in Mitzpe Ramon • Dinner Overnight: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tel Aviv Movement in Israel • Traditional Shabbat at hotel • New Year's Eve celebration – TBD Lunch at hotel • Shabbat afternoon options: Overnight: Beresheet Hotel or Ramon Inn, Wednesday, December 25 – Cradles of Late afternoon walking tour to the historic Mitzpe Ramon Jewish Civilization in the Galilee Montefiore Windmill to discover the first Depart for northern Israel • Explore the ruins neighborhood built outside the walls of the Wednesday, January 1 – Negev Highlands: of Tzippori, the city where Rabbi Judah Hanasi Old City and/or Walking tour to First Temple Primeval Desert Beauty sealed the Mishna • Discover Tzippori's period burial site at Ketef Hinnom – Where Learn about the natural history of the Ramotsh ancient mosaic pavements, archaeologists discovered the oldest biblical region at the multimedia Makhtesh Ramon including Mona Lisa of the Galilee, Nile Flood text ever found • Havdalah and Hanukkah Visitors Center dedicated to fallen Israeli Festival and Orpheus, who looks like King candle lighting with Rabbi Raskin • Dinner on Ilan Ramon • Explore Makhtesh David? • What do the ruins of Tzippori reveal own • Watch the Night Spectacular Sound Ramon (Ramon Crater) on foot and by jeep about Jews and Hellenism? Then ponder why and light show at the Tower of David to discover magnificant desert landscapes an ancient synagogue floor features a wheel Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem and a fascinating window into the earth's of the zodiac. Why does the Menorah on past • Camel ride and Bedouin hospitality the mosaic have seven branches instead of Sunday, December 29 – Holocaust, lunch at Khan Hashayarot • Remainder of nine? • Lunch on own • Tour mystical Tzfat's Remembrance and Continuity afternoon free to relax and enjoy the hotel's ornate old synagogues and picturesque Tour of Israel's national spa and recreational facilities • Dinner at alleyways and discover the origins of our Holocaust memorial, including a moving visit hotel Friday night service in the city where Lecha to the Children’s Memorial, followed by a tour Overnight: Beresheet Hotel or Ramon Inn, Dodi was written • Free time to shop in of the Holocaust History Museum • Lunch Mitzpe Ramon galleries and explore Tzfat's Artists Colony on own • Meaningful visit to Mt Herzl on own • Check–in to the Ramot Hotel in the Cemetery to discover chapters in the Thursday, January 2 – Nature, Vision and Galilee • Light Hanukkah candles together at history of Israel while vidsiting the graves Development in the Negev hotel • Dinner at hotel of Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir, Theodore Herzl Tour of David Ben Gurion's House on Overnight: Ramot Resort and Hannah Senesch • Engage in hands Kibbutz Sde Boker to learn about his vision on tzedakah preparing food packages for for developing the Negev • Lunch on Thursday, December 26 – Ancient and distribution to some of Israel's neediest own • Guided tour of the Israeli Air Force Modern Geopolitics and Israel's Finest people at Pantry Packers or Yad Ezra Museum at Hatzerim to see exhibition of Walk in the lush Tel Dan Nature Reserve, one Veshulamit • Sunset tour of the Jewish historic Israeli Air Force planes and hear of the sources of the Jordan River, where Quarter to light Hanukkah candles with local the story of this elite branch of the Israel you'll discover biblical intrigue and one of residents and learn about their special way Defense Forces • Travel to the western the oldest arches in the world • Lunch of "advertising" the miracle • Free time to Negev • Tour of an exotic orchard, followed on own • Tour of the Golan Heights for a shop in Cardo • Dinner on own by a gourmet farewell dinner at Ora's Yard special perspective on Israel's complex Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem on Moshav Kfar Maimon • Taste their geopolitics as we "look down at Israel" the home-made liqueurs and jams • Hear way the Syrian army once did and then Monday, December 30 – The Old City of your hosts' moving personal immigration look out at the border from the peak of Jerusalem: An Ancient Jewish Legacy stories • Transfer to strategic Mt. Bental • Please choose one Option: B'nai Mitzvah ceremony at the of the following two "touring and tasting" egalitarian Masorti Kotel • Discover the Friday, January 3 options with both located on nearby Kibbutz archaeological story of the Western Wall Arrive in USA