Sights, Sounds and Tastes of Explore Israel on this itinerary specially designed as a small group tour where you’ll enjoy unique cultural and culinary experiences as well as visits to the high points of interest throughout Israel. Wednesday Departure 12 Days • 10 Nights An Isram Israel Exclusive Small Group Tour Limited to 14 participants

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f • Professional Expert Guide • Luxury Hotels o • 8 Days of Exceptional Touring program • Arrival and Departure Transfers

astes 24 Meals: T • Daily Israeli Buffet Breakfast • Welcome Dinner Restored house in Sarona, Tel Aviv

and • Lunch in Jaffa

• Lunch at a Winery ITINERARY Continue to the 4,000-year-old port • Dinner in Sarona city of Jaffa. Explore the magnificently • Lunch at a Chef Restaurant in Akko Wednesday: En Route reconstructed Artists’ Quarter with unds its galleries and boutiques. Enjoy the • 2 Dinners at Mizpe Hayamim Depart the U.S.A. on your flight to local flavors at in one of our fa- (including Dinner at Muscat Restaurant) Israel. lunch , So • Home hosted lunch in Galilee vorite Jaffa restaurants. Afterwards, on • Dinner at a Chef Restaurant in Thursday: Tel Aviv to Tel Aviv’s bustling Carmel Market and lively Nachlat Benjamin Street • Middle East Dinner at Abu Gosh Welcome to Israel! Arrive Ben Gurion ights • Lunch at a Dead Sea Spa Hotel with its delightful cafes and craft stalls S Airport; meeting and transfer to the — definitely the place to be on Friday • Traditional Friday Night Dinner-Israeli home spectacular Royal Beach Hotel on in Jerusalem afternoon! Return to your hotel. This the Mediterranean Shore. Evening: evening, you can choose from one of Enjoy a night tour of trendy Tel Aviv-- the many excellent restaurants in Tel Special Features: the “city that never sleeps” followed • Night Tour of Tel Aviv Aviv for dinner on your own or at your by a welcome dinner at a top chef • Winery Tour, Tasting and Lunch in Elah Valley hotel. Overnight in Tel Aviv. (B.L) restaurant. (D) • Golan Heights Jeep Ride and Tour an Army Saturday: Tel Aviv Bunker Friday: Tel Aviv • Cheese Making Workshop and Winery in A delicious breakfast at your hotel fol- Begin your day with a visit to Inde- lowed by a visit to Machon Ayalon the Northern Israel pendence Hall where it all began. • Galilee Village Market Tour including reconstructed underground munitions This is where the establishment of factory located under the kibbutz bak- Cooking instruction and Meal the state of Israel was declared. Then • Organic Kibbutz Visit ery. It was built and operated during a great discovery of Tel Aviv as we the years 1946-1948. This special clan- • Mahane Yehuda “Shuk Bites” Experience drive through the main streets of this • Ride the “Segway” touring in Jerusalem destine factory was prepared secretly city known as the “White City”. Tel • Knesset (Parliament) Visit in less than a month. Its openings Aviv has been proclaimed a UNESCO were covered by a 10 ton oven and a • Mea Shearim Neighborhood Tasting Tour World Heritage Site for its splendid large washing machine that camou- • Night Tour of “illuminated” Jerusalem Bauhaus Architecture and has the flaged the noise of manufacturing • Tour the Hasmonean Tunnel largest number of buildings in this bullets. The Ayalon institute was the • Sound & Light Show in Jerusalem unique style of any city in the world! largest IMI factory to operate under- • Tips to all restaurant staff Continue past the Charles Bronfman ground and produced over 2,500,000 • Express Airport Service and Dan VIP Lounge Auditorium, (Israeli Philharmonic), 9mm bullets mostly for Sten guns dur- at Ben Gurion Airport (upon return to USA) Habimah Theatre, the impressive Op- ing its three years of operation. Drive (B) Breakfast (L) Lunch (D) Dinner era House and Yitzhak Rabin Square, to a Winery in the Elah Valley to enjoy dedicated to the late Prime Minister. a tour, wine tasting and a delightful

50 | lunch. Return to your hotel for some relax- community, is something worth seeing Thursday: Jerusalem ing time at the lovely facilities and on the and experiencing. Then drive south and Begin the day with a tour of the Knesset beautiful Mediterranean Sea. Evening: We rise through the mountains to “golden” (Parliament). Continue to Yad Vashem, Israel’s are out on the town as we visit Sarona, an Jerusalem celebrating the 50th Anniversary national Memorial and Museum of the Holo- old German Templar colony meticulously of the reunification of the city, stopping caust, with its Children’s Pavilion and Avenue restored, preserving the original architecture first for a blessing and a toast to our arrival of the Righteous. On to Mea Shearim for a and converted to a lively pedestrian area in the eternal city. Check in to the newest Culinary Tour. Here, in this ultra-Orthodox with a booming culinary arena. After a walk- hotel in Jerusalem, the spectacular Orient neighborhood, it’s like time stood still. ing tour, enjoy free time exploring the new Hotel built on the grounds of historic build- Everything is so different from the modern urban complexes including various shops, ings preserved from the Templar Era of the Jerusalem that we see elsewhere. The “Ash- cafés and art galleries. Dinner at one of the 1880’s. Overnight in Israel’s capital. Evening: kenazi” food is the same as it was hundreds fine restaurants in the city. (B.L.D) Night Tour of illuminated Jerusalem fol- of years ago. Here you’ll savor the taste of “Cholent”, “kugel”, “Blintzes” and delight in Sunday: Tel Aviv/Rosh Pina lowed by Dinner at the Eucalyptus Restau- rant where every dish has its origins in bibli- the most perfect Herring you’ll ever have not to mention the Challahs which are baked in Drive to ancient Caesarea to explore the cal scenes and all the spices and herbs grow Roman and Crusader ruins. We’ll then 150-years-old-ovens. But don’t overdo it as in the surrounding hills of Jerusalem and drive to the port city of Haifa for a view tonight, we’ll experience a different side of Judea. The restaurant is set in an ancient of the golden-domed and Israel as we drive to the Israeli-Arab town of Baha’i Shrine stone building with a huge scenic balcony their breathtaking “hanging gardens,” – a Abu Gosh, known as the “ Capital of where you can enjoy the crimson sunsets UNESCO World Heritage site. Continue to Israel” where we enjoy a delicious local meal. as they hit the walls of the old city—the the Crusader city of Acre. Enjoy lunch at (B.L.D) special ambiance of the evening is simply the famous Uri Buri Restaurant. Afterwards, walk through the subterranean city and intoxicating. (B.L.D) Friday: Jerusalem bazaars that recall the colorful middle Ages. Wednesday: Jerusalem Descend through the Judean desert to the Drive along the coast to Rosh Hanikra; Dead Sea, lowest point on Planet Earth. Enter the from the Dung Gate; S descend by cable car to see the magnificent Old City Ascend Masada by cable car and see this last ights underwater grottoes.Continue to Mizpe walk to the Western Wall, last remnant of stronghold of the Zealots in their struggle Hayamim in Rosh Pina, a natural health spa the Second Temple. View the Dome of the against the Romans. Visit the excavations, and resort unique in its concept and design Rock. Drive to Mt. Zion to visit the tradi- Herod the Great’s palace, synagogue and , So with flourishing herbal and flower gar- tional Tomb of King David and the Room bathhouse. Continue to a Dead Sea Spa dens and an organic farm with the tastiest of the Last Supper. Proceed to the restored Hotel for lunch and to enjoy an “unsinkable” . Enjoy dinner in the quaint dining Jewish Quarter; walk along the Cardo, swim in the buoyant waters of the Dead Sea unds room. (B.L.D) the colonnaded main street of Byzantine on the hotel’s private beach. Drive via the Jerusalem. Visit the Herodian Mansions, a Qumran Caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls

Monday: Rosh Pina completely excavated residential quarter were found, on your return to Jerusalem. and Begin the day with a tour of Safed, one of from 2000 years ago, or, walk through the Evening: You will be deeply moved as you join Jerusalemites welcoming the Sabbath at Judaism’s holiest cities, where the Kabbalah extraordinary Hasmonean Tunnel (tunnel was developed in the 16th.-century; visit schedule permitting.) Follow the the Western Wall. And tonight, the memo- T Via Do- astes ries will last us a lifetime as we join an Israeli the ancient synagogues and the charm- lorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepul- family at their home for the traditional ing Artists’ Quarter. Continue to the Adir ; walk through the exotic with Friday chre bazaars together. Winery for wine tasting, and to participate their wondrous aromas. We’ll then drive dinner (B.L.D) in a hands-on cheese making workshop. to Machane Yehuda Market a microcosm Saturday: Jerusalem o We’ll then ascend the Golan Heights and of everything Jerusalem has to offer. The f continue through the valleys and ranges on Enjoy a day at leisure at your beautiful hotel I market is Israel’s most sprawling and buzz- featuring a magnificent rooftop outdoor srael a thrilling Jeep ride; take in the breathtak- ing network of alleys and vending stalls. ing panoramic views and learn about the swimming pool, as well as an indoor pool in Enjoy the “Shuk Bites” experience where the spa complex where saunas, Turkish baths, strategic importance of the area. Drive to you’ll sample and taste a variety of market wondrous for a magnificent and an array of pampering spa treatments are Mt. Ben Tal products while you hear the intriguing back view beyond the Israeli borders. Visit an available . Or continue on your your explora- stories of the vendors you’ll meet. End the and hear the fascinating story tion of Jerusalem on this final day in Israel.(B) army bunker day with a thrilling through the of the war fought in the Golan. Return to Segway Ride charming and picturesque neighborhoods Sunday: En Route your hotel for dinner in the Muscat Gour- of Mishkenot Shaananim and Yemin Moshe. met Chef restaurant of the Mizpe Hayamim. Transfer to the Airport for your international Tonight, attend the (B.D) “Night Spectacular” departure flight. Enjoy ourExpress Check-in Sound & Light Show at the Citadel Museum Service and complimentary entrance to the Tuesday: Rosh Pina/Jerusalem (weather and schedule permitting). (B.L) exclusive Dan VIP Lounge. (B) Driving first toCapernaum to see the fan- tastic ruins of the ancient synagogue dating lu xuRY HOTELS back to the 5th-century. Continue to a local C iTY Nights hotel Galilee Village where you will have a taste Tel Aviv 3 Royal Beach (Executive Room, Executive Lounge) of Galilean village life. Enjoy a visit to a local market before arriving at your hosts’ house Rosh Pina 2 Mizpe Hayamim Spa Hotel where you will prepare a meal together Jerusalem 5 Orient (Orient Room, Executive Lounge) which you will enjoy together with a selec- tion of side dishes that your host cooked LAND PRICES PER PERSON (USD) especially for you. Continue to Kibbutz Sde D ePARTURE Dates: Price Eliyahu for a tour throughout the Kibbutz 2017 Departure Dates Twin Single with your feet in the soil and nothing but May 31, Jun 28, Jul 19, Sep 6, Oct 18, Nov 8 5750 7685 green in your thoughts. The tours show how everyday living is merged with nature as a 2018 Departure Dates way of life. The combination of a Jewish Apr 18, May 2 5750 7685 Orthodox lifestyle with organic farming, Tour is guaranteed on minimum 4 participants. in a vibrant, versatile and cooperative Supplement for Private Car Touring based on 2 participants, $1495 per person.

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