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Israel Fantasia Monday Departures 14 Days • 12 Nights An Isram Israel Exclusive Tour Limited to 28 participants Sarona Templar Colony ITINERARY Thursday: Tel Aviv Tour Includes: Begin the day with a visit to Weizmann • Professional Tour Director Monday: En Route House, the recently restored unique and grand home of Chaim Weizmann, • Choice of Deluxe Hotel Plans Depart the U.S.A. on your flight to Israel. first President of Israel and founder • 9 Days of Comprehensive Sightseeing Tuesday: Tel Aviv of the Weizmann Institute of Science. • Walking Tour of Tel Aviv Welcome to Israel! Arrive Ben Gurion The house is presented in a living way, • Arrival and Departure Transfers Airport; meeting, assistance and as if its residents are still living on the transfer to your hotel in trendy Tel premises. Continue to the pre-state 17 Meals: Aviv’s Mediterranean beach. Balance underground Ammunitions Factory at (restored by JNF) • Daily Israeli Buffet Breakfast of the afternoon and evening at leisure Machon Ayalon in the “city that never sleeps”. to learn about the activities of the DEPARTURES • Friday Dinner Get-together in Tel Aviv Hagannah. Then, on to the military • 2 Dinners in Haifa Wednesday: Tel Aviv junction at Latrun, once the border • Lunch at Kibbutz Kfar Charuv Begin the day with a visit to Ben with Jordan; visit the Tank Division • Restaurant Dinner in Jerusalem Gurion House in Tel Aviv, which served . Continue to , a onday Memorial Sarona • Traditional Friday Night Dinner-Israeli home as one of the residences of the First former Templar settlement restored to in Jerusalem Prime Minister of Israel; see his perfection with beautifully landscaped personal belongings and expansive gardens and upscale restaurants. — M library. Continue to the Palmach You may wish to return in the evening Special Features Museum (subject to appointment when Sarona looks and feels magical. confirmation), for a virtual tour of the • Tour the underground Ammunitions Factory On to your hotel in Tel Aviv. (B) at Machon Ayalon history of the underground organization. • Visit the unique Palmach Museum We’ll then have a great discovery of Friday: Tel Aviv antasia Tel Aviv as we drive through the main • Archeological “Dig” at Beit Guvrin National Today, a great adventure! Spend the streets of this city known as the “White morning digging and excavating at the Park City”. Tel Aviv has been proclaimed • Tour the Israeli Museum at the Rabin Center a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its Tel Maresha Dig at Beit Guvrin National • Visit the beautifully restored former Templar splendid Bauhaus Architecture and has Park (weather permitting). Continue ISRAEL F settlement—Sarona the largest number of buildings in this to the 4,000-year-old port city of Jaffa. Explore the magnificently reconstructed • Dinner and special presentation in Haifa unique style of any city in the world! Continue past the Artists’ Quarter with its galleries and • Descend to the Underwater Grottos at Charles Bronfman Auditorium, (Israeli Philharmonic), boutiques. Afterwards, on to Tel Aviv’s Rosh Hanikra Habimah Theatre, the impressive bustling Carmel Market and lively • Enjoy wine tasting at a Golan Winery Opera House and Yitzhak Rabin Square, Nachlat Benjamin Street with its • Visit an Army Bunker in the Golan dedicated to the late Prime Minister. delightful craft stalls. Adjacent is Sheinkin • Tour the spectacular FOZ Heritage Center We’ll visit the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Street one of the most popular streets • Night Tour of “illuminated” Jerusalem Israel’s largest art museum and award in Tel Aviv, for the trendiest boutiques • Tour Herodian Mansions or Hasmonean winner for its unique structural design. or just some coffee and people watching Onward to charming and quaint Neve — definitely the place to be on Friday Tunnel (Tel Aviv’s “Soho”), the first Tzedek afternoon! Tonight, Get Together • Sound & Light Show in Jerusalem neighborhood constructed outside Dinner. (B.D) • Shabbat Dinner with Home Hospitality in Old Jaffa; the old buildings are Jerusalem amazing! Just down the road is the Saturday: Tel Aviv newly developed open-air pedestrian • WiFi enabled buses and Free WiFi at all Morning walking tour through the mall—the “Tachana” converted from hotels city’s well known streets including • Tips to all restaurant staff an old railroad station. You’ll have some time to stroll through the shops Dizengoff Square. Remainder of the • Expedited Airport Check-in Service & here and perhaps enjoy coffee or an day at leisure to enjoy all of the delights Dan VIP Lounge at Ben Gurion Airport ice cream in one of the many cafes of this Mediterranean paradise. Tel (upon return to the USA) before we head back to your hotel Aviv’s museums and restaurants are (those wishing to spend some more world-class. Don’t miss Tel Aviv’s hip (B) Breakfast (L) Lunch (D) Dinner time here can taxi back to the hotel, port neighborhood, with its yachts, just minutes away). (B) eateries and café-filled boardwalk.(B) 28 | www.isramisraelusa.com Isram Israel (844) 9-ISRAEL Sunday: Tel Aviv/Haifa 7th Brigade. It is here, in the magnificent Follow the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Depart Tel Aviv. Drive to the extraordinary strip of the Golan that has become known Holy Sepulchre; stroll through the exotic Israeli Museum at the Yitzhak Rabin Center for producing the finest wines in the world, bazaars with their wondrous aromas. End today chronicling the life of the late Prime Minister that we will enjoy a tour of the wine making with a visit to the fabulous Friends of Zion and the development of the State of Israel. process as well as sample some of the Golan’s Heritage Center celebrating the Christian Continue to ancient Caesarea; explore the tastiest wines. Continue for a visit to a former heroes who have contributed to the Jewish Roman and Crusader ruins including the Syrian army bunker at Kibbutz Kfar Charuv, people and the State of Israel. The cutting impressive 2,000-year-old theater (still in settled by Americans and Israelis together; edge technology is amazing. Or, an optional visit to may be arranged. A free use!) and aqueduct. Then, visit Caesarea view of the fertile valleys below as you tour Bethlehem the kibbutz and enjoy a late in the night tonight. The shops are open late as it’s Harbor: a fascinating, multi-media lunch presentation brings ancient history to life! communal dining room. Then drive south the start of the Israeli weekend. Enjoy the and rise through the mountains to “golden” many eateries along the outdoor Mamilla Arrive in Nazareth, the sacred town where Jesus spent part of his youth; visit the Church Jerusalem, stopping first for a blessing and Mall, Ben Yehuda Street, or the “Tachana”. (B) a toast to our arrival in the eternal city. and view Mary’s Well. On to the sparkling Overnight in Israel’s capital. (B.L) Friday: Jerusalem port city of Haifa; check into your hotel atop Descend through the Judean desert to the Mt. Carmel. Evening: Enjoy Dinner and a Wednesday: Jerusalem , lowest point on Planet Earth. special cultural presentation (subject to Dead Sea Drive to Hadassah Medical Center to see Ascend Masada by cable car and see this last minimum 10 tour participants). (B.D) the sublime Chagall Windows. On to Yad stronghold of the Zealots in their struggle Monday: Haifa Vashem, Israel’s national Memorial and against the Romans. Visit the excavations, Museum of the Holocaust, with its Children’s Herod the Great’s palace, synagogue and View the golden-domed and Baha’i Shrine Pavilion and Avenue of the Righteous. Then, bathhouse. Then, opportunity to enjoy an their breathtaking “hanging gardens,” – a to Mount Herzl to pay respects to Israel’s “unsinkable” swim in the buoyant waters of UNESCO World Heritage site. Drive along founders and heroes. Pass the post-modern the Dead Sea. Drive via the Qumran Caves, the coast to Rosh Hanikra; descend by ISRAEL F Supreme Court and the Knesset (Parliament) where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, on cable car to see the magnificent underwater en route to the Shrine of the Book, home of your return to Jerusalem. We’ll stop at the grottoes. Continue through the picturesque the Dead Sea Scrolls. Time to walk through the Western Wall, beautifully illuminated on this seaside town of Nahariya to the timeless Israel Museum and the Billy Rose Sculpture Sabbath eve before arriving to the hotel Crusader city of Acre; walk through the (time permitting). Tonight, a unique and Garden; see the Scale Model of ancient antasia subterranean city and bazaars that recall the Jerusalem. Evening: Night Tour of illuminated memorable evening as we join an Israeli colorful middle Ages. Then, to Safed, one of Jerusalem followed by a Restaurant Dinner family at their home to enjoy the traditional Judaism’s holiest cities, where the Kabbalah and the “Night Spectacular” Sound & Light Friday dinner together. (B.D) was developed in the 16th.-century; visit the Show at the Citadel Museum (weather and ancient synagogues and the charming Artists’ schedule permitting). (B.D) Saturday: Jerusalem — M Quarter. Return to your hotel for Dinner. The Enjoy a full day at leisure for relaxation and balance of the evening is at leisure to enjoy Thursday: Jerusalem on your own exploration. For those still a stroll under the Carmel skies and the glow Drive to Mt. Zion to visit the traditional Tomb craving to see and do as much as possible, of this beautiful port city. (B.D) of King David and the Room of the Last Supper. your tour manager will provide entrance onday Enter the to the restored tickets to the Tuesday: Haifa/Jerusalem Old City Jewish Museum of the History of Quarter; walk along the Cardo, the colonnaded Jerusalem in the Old City—definitely worth We’ll depart Haifa driving first toCapernaum main street of Byzantine Jerusalem.