Archeology Tour:

Day 1: Gateway to the Holy Land

• Tour of the old city of Jaffa, the oldest known port city on earth • Walking tour from ancient Jaffa to modern Tel Aviv

Day 2: Up the Coast

• The Roman port city of Caesarea • Ruins of the Bronze and Iron Age fortress city of Megiddo

Day 3: Crusader and Ottoman

• Hospitalier Halls and Templar Tunnels under the current Ottoman city in the Crusader capital of Akko (Acre) • Ruins of the Teutonic castle of Montfort • Hike along the perennial stream of Nahal Kziv, which gave Monfort guarded

Day 4: Rabbinic Pilgrimage sites in the Galilee

• Tomb of Yonatan ben Uziel • Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai • Mystical city of Tsfat (Safed) with its ancient synagogues and holy cemetery

Day 5: Sea of Galilee

• Ancient Capernaum, including its synagogue and church • Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and fish • Roman period synagogue at Migdal • Byzantine period synagogue at Chamei Tverya • Byzantine monastery at Kursi • Excavations at Beit Saideh

Day 6: Golan

• Ancient Talmudic city of Katzrin • Ancient olive oil press

• The ancient spa of Hamat Gader

Day 7: Golan and

• Roman acropolis at Banias • Medieval Islamic castle now called Nimrod’s fortress • City from the time of Abraham at Tel • Canaanite and, subsequently, Solomonic city of Tel Hatzor

Day 8: Jordan Valley

• Roman City of Beit She’an • Crusader ruins of Belvoir • Oldest, continuously inhabited city on earth at Jericho

Day 9: Judean Desert

• Qumran, city of the Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls • The desert oasis of • The last stronghold of the Jewish rebellion at Masada

Day 10: Jerusalem – Old City I

• Mount of Olives viewpoint, ancient burial tombs, and churches • Via Dolorosa • Church of the Holy Sepulcher

Day 11: Jerusalem – Old City II

• Temple Mount • Western Wall Plaza and excavations • Jewish Quarter excavations • Mount Zion including David’s Tomb and room of the Last Supper

Day 12: Jerusalem outskirts

• City of David and the politics of archeology

• Ein Kerem – the birth place of John the Baptist • Nebi Samuel: a structure built as a church, converted into a mosque, and today an Orthodox synagogue