Israel Tour Sample Itinerary [email protected] | www.lipkintours.com | U.S. phone: 516-299-9389 TOURS LIPKINIsrael the right way 1 2 3 Day Day Day Starting your amazing journey Welcome to Israel Galilee Departure from North America. Flight Arrival in Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Our second day of touring will begin at usually arrive in Israel the next day. Aviv. Meet and be assisted by a Lipkin Nazareth Village a reconstructed Jewish Tours representative responsible for village replicating the village where Make sure to arrive at the airport 3 your tour in Israel. After meeting your Jesus grew to manhood. Just south of hours before your scheduled departure. tour guide and bus driver, we embark on Nazareth in the cliffs of Mt Kedumim our adventure in Israel. We begin with a we will visit Mount Precipice, the visit to the ruins of Caesarea Maritima, traditional site of the cliff that Jesus ran which was home to the government of away from after his bold proclamation in the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate. the Nazareth synagogue (Luke 4:16-30). After watching the amazing sunset over The next stop of the day will be Tel - the Mediterranean Sea, we head north Megiddo, where the Messiah will return to our Galilee hotel for check in, dinner to earth and defeat the Antichrist (the and group orientation. "beast") in the battle of Armageddon. We end the day on Mt. Carmel where we Dinner and overnight at Galilee hotel. shall visit the "Place of Sacrifice" where the Prophet Elijah had an encounter with the Priests of Baal (1 Kings 18:17-40). Dinner and overnight at Galilee hote [email protected] | www.lipkintours.com | U.S. phone: 516-299-9389 TOURS LIPKINIsrael the right way 4 5 6 Day Day Day Golan Heights Galilee Sea Samaria We will begin our day at Tel Dan, described The Sea of Galilee is rich in memories of the Samaria is a vast area in Israel's in the bible as the northernmost city of three years of Jesus' ministry around its shores. heartland that includes the tribal lands Israel. Our next stop will be the Banias, We begin this day with a boat ride across the of Ephraim and Menasseh. We will a source of the Jordan River, and the site Sea of Galilee to visit the ruins of Capernaum start the day at a spectacular lookout of Caesarea Philippi where the Apostle which in Jesus' time was a flourishing border point identified as The Oak of Moreh, Peter made his great confession of faith town and was called "his own city" because of the place where Abraham built an altar in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God the frequency with which Jesus visited it and the as he entered Canaan (Genesis 12:7). (Matth. 16:13-17). mighty works he did there. We continue with Next, we visit the Mountain of Blessing, a tour of the Boat Museum in Kibbutz Ginosar Mt. Gerizim from which we will see the Following this we will drive up to Mt. where a 2,000-year-old boat from Jesus’ time is ancient city of Sichem (Genesis 31:1), Bental in the Golan Heights and lookout exhibited. Before we leave the Galilee sea, we Joseph's tomb (Joshua 24:32) and the to the "Road to Damascus". We will then will visit Magdala, the town of Mary Magdalene, Church of Jacob's Well (John 4:5-6). We travel to Katzrin, known as the "capital a follower of Jesus. The name Magdala comes end this day on Mt Ebal, the mountain of the Golan heights” where we will from the word for “tower” and probably referred of Curses where a huge Israelite alter watch a multi-media presentation about to towers used for drying fish caught in the Sea was found and is attributed to the altar the region. Before we return to the hotel, of Galilee. On our drive through the Jordan Valley built by Joshua the servant of Moses for we will visit Yardenit, a baptismal site on to Samaria, we will stop by Argaman and learn the ceremony of the blessings and the the shores of the Galilee sea. about a mysterious Israelite footprint structure curses (Joshua 8). Dinner and overnight at Galilee hotel. that was found there. At our Samaria hotel, we will visit the Biblical Garden, a model of the Dinner and overnight at Samaria hotel. Desert Tabernacle and Vessels. Dinner and overnight at Samaria hotel. [email protected] | www.lipkintours.com | U.S. phone: 516-299-9389 TOURS LIPKINIsrael the right way 7 8 9 Day Day Day Tribe of Benjamin Dead Sea Judea After Breakfast and checkout, we head We will drive down to the Jordan valley Today we will visit the tribal land of to ancient Shiloh, the first capital of passing by the city of Jericho on our Judah, the tribe of King David. We will the 12 tribes and the place where the way to Qumran where the famous start our day at the Shepherd's Field Tabernacle stood for almost 500 years. 2,000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls were lookout point over the city of Bethlehem We continue to the modern Jewish found. Next, we will visit Masada. to learn about the Messianic importance village of Ofra where we will take part Ascent by cable car for an extensive of this city. We continue to Gush Etzion. in the restoration of the land and plant tour of the site which was the scene of Visit the Sound and Light Show in trees. Next, we head to Bethel, the place the last Jewish resistance against the Kfar Etzion and learn about the special where Jacob had an amazing dream Romans in the year 73 AD. We continue history of this area. Next to Path of the about angels and a ladder reaching to to the Dead Sea, the lowest spot on the Patriarchs, including ancient ritual baths the heavens (Genesis 28:19). As we face of the Earth. You will have plenty and strategic lookout toward Jerusalem. enter the holy city of Jerusalem, we will of time at the shores of the Dead Sea Travel south to Hebron, city of the stop on Mt. Scopus overlooking ancient and an opportunity to bathe in mineral Patriarchs and first capital of King David. and modern Jerusalem. This is going to rich waters. We return to Jerusalem and Tour the ancient Jewish neighborhoods be a sunset you will cherish for the rest enjoy a quite evening at the hotel. and the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Meet of your life. We end our day by entering with residents of one of the Hebron area the Old City of Jerusalem and visiting Dinner and overnight at Jerusalem hotel. communities and learn about this unique the last standing remnant of the ancient area in Israel. Temple: The Western Wall followed by a tour of the Western Wall Tunnels. Dinner and overnight at Jerusalem hotel Dinner and overnight at Jerusalem hotel. [email protected] | www.lipkintours.com | U.S. phone: 516-299-9389 TOURS LIPKINIsrael the right way 10 11 Day Day Jerusalem's Old City Jerusalem: Old and new After breakfast this day we shall start our Yad Vashem is Israel's center for the pilgrimage in Jerusalem with a drive to the commemoration of the Holocaust. We will visit top of the Mt. of Olives, from which Jesus the museum and memorial and learn about the ascended to heaven after his resurrection. tragedy of the Jewish people and the miracle of From the top of the Mount there is a the birth of the State of Israel. Next, we return magnificent view over all of ancient and to the Old City to tour the Jewish quarter and modern Jerusalem, the center of the biblical have some time to shop for souvenirs. We will world. We visit the holy shrines on the visit the Temple Institute and see the vessels Mount and walk on down the "Palm Sunday that are being prepared for the building of the Road" visiting the Chapel of Dominus Third Temple. Our next stop is the Friends of Flevit (Jesus wept) en route to the Garden Zion Museum that commemorates the special of Gethsemane (time for prayer) and the relationship between Christians and the Jewish Church of All Nations where Christ prayed people. As our program comes to an end, we on the night of his betrayal (Lk. 22:40-46). will have a festive farewell dinner thanking Scan to visit your tour page Next, we shall visit the "City of David" our staff for an amazing experience. We leave archeological site and the Southern Steps Jerusalem and check in for our homebound that led the Jewish pilgrims from the Siloam flight in Ben Gurion Airport, rejoicing and pool up to the Holy Temple of Jerusalem. putting our trust in the Lord, remembering the We end this day visiting the Garden Tomb, words in Psalms 125:1: "Those who trust in the the place believed to be the site of the burial LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be and resurrection of Jesus. shaken but endures forever". Sample itinerary - Subject to change Dinner and overnight at Jerusalem hotel. *** *** [email protected] | www.lipkintours.com | U.S. phone: 516-299-9389 TOURS Back to the site >> LIPKINIsrael the right way I highly recommend Lipkin Tours for Thanks LIPKIN TOURS, for the It was great being in the Land. that “group travel to Israel! It is such a privilege “most remarkable trip from the American “was one of my heart's desires to go to work with Bible believers and work heartland to the Israeli heartland.