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Join Temple Beth Abraham’s Multi-Generational Family Trip Led by David Holtz February 12-23, 2020 Optional Eilat – Petra extension February 22-25, 2020 View and download itinerary and application at www.israeltour.com/rholtz

DISCOUNTED PRICE FOR CHECK PAYMENT FULL PRICE FOR CREDIT CARD PAYMENT REDUCTIONS Land Only Package – $3995 Land Only Package – $4155 Third in a Room: -$495 per person in a double room per person in a double room Child, ages 2-12, as 3rd in room: -$570 Land and Air Package – *$5405 Land and Air Package – *$5622 Bar/Bat Mitzvah child 3rd in room: -$650 Round trip air Round trip air Child 3rd and 4th child sharing room: -$200 Single Room Supplement – $1220 Single Room Supplement – $1269 (in a quad) The Secret is Out: Israel is #trending Join Temple Beth Abraham’s family Israel trip where you will become part of the daily life in and . Shehekhiyanu/Welcome ceremony on top of ancient Tel , Palmach Museum in , Walking tour of historic Little Tel Aviv, Discover City of Sand and Sea and the quaint neighborhood, Founders’ Monument, Nachalat Binyamin, Israeli Innovation Center located in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Shabbat evening services at Beit Samueli Reform Congregation in Ranaana, Guided tour of David Ben Gurion’s house, “Aliyah Bet” Memorial in London Square, Ruins of Caesarea, Mystical city of Tzfat, Tel Dan Nature Reserve, Jeep tour of the Golan Heights, Barbeque dinner with young Israeli soldiers, De Karina Chocolate Factory, Bio-Bee on Sde Eliahu, Valley, Judean and , Swim in the , Nature Reserve, Abraham’s Tent for a Camel ride, Explore the , and Tunnels, Night Spectacular, Yad Vashem, Herzl Museum, Machane Yehuda Market. Welcome Shabbat in Jerusalem, Havdallah with Rabbi Holtz. Your senses will be filled with the life, smells, sounds and textures of modern Israel, along with an appreciation of our connections to our Jewish roots and biblical history. Your experience will be an exciting fantastic, fun-filled spiritual adventure! Come join us!

For additional information please contact: Rabbi David Holtz by email at [email protected] or call Rabbi at 914-631-1770 x17 Tours arranged by ITC Tours. Contact Janine by email at [email protected] or call 800-247-7235

“One does not travel to Jerusalem, one returns.” Temple Beth Abraham – Family Israel Tour Led by Rabbi David Holtz February 12–23, 2020

Wednesday, February 12 – Depart USA • Visit the ruins of Caesarea, including its • Free evening. Dinner on own. Roman Theater, Amphitheater, Hippodrome • Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem Thursday, February 13 – Entering the Land and Promontory Palace. • Arrive in Israel to be met and assisted by your • ITC Touch: Ponder a rabbinic debate over Thursday, February 20 – The of ITC representative (today’s program depends attending gladiator games. Jerusalem: An Ancient Jewish Legacy on arrival time) • Lunch on own in Zichron Yaakov, an early • Explore the City of David, including its ancient • Tour , the ancient port city once Zionist pioneering commity. water systems (without getting wet!), using known as Zion Gate from which Jonah tried to • Tour mystical Tzfat’s old synagogues and the Bible and archaeology to decipher flee and where Solomon brought the Cedars picturesque alleyways. Tzfat was the cradle of Jerusalem’s ruins and discover chapters in the of Lebanon on the way to Jerusalem. Today Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) in the 16th city’s past or discover the archaeological story paintings and sculptures have been installed in century. ’s Friday night service, of the Western Wall and episodes from rabbinic its ancient alleys. Kabbalat Shabbat, and the hymn Lecha Dodi texts while standing where Jewish pilgrims • Shehekhiyanu/Welcome ceremony on top of originated in Tzfat a that time. walked 2,000 years ago at Robinson’s Arch ancient Tel Jaffa. Then hear about the vision • Check–in to the Kfar Blum Hotel on Kibbutz and the Southern Wall Excavations. for founding the new city of Tel Aviv. Kfar Blum in the Galilee Panhandle. • Visit the traditional prayer area of the • Visit the Palmach Museum in Ramat Aviv to • Dinner at hotel Western Wall. learn about the elite underground organization • Overnight: Kibbutz Kfar Blum • Walk through the the Western Wall Tunnels which played a critical role in the founding of to discover underground Jerusalem. the State of Israel. Monday, February 17 – Ancient and Modern • Lunch on own in Jewish Quarter • Check-in at the Carlton Hotel on Tel Aviv’s Geopolitics and Israel’s Finest • Guided tour of Jewish Quarter including the Mediterranean Coast. • Walk in the lush Tel Dan Nature Reserve, one Cardo, Broad Wall and Rooftops followed by • Welcome dinner at Maganda Restaurant in of the sources of the Jordan River, where free time to shop and explore on own. Tel Aviv’s old Yemenite Quarter. you’ll discover biblical intrigue and one of the • Dinner on own in the Mamilla Quarter • Overnight: Carlton Hotel, Tel Aviv oldest arches in the world. • Watch the Sound and light show at the • Lunch on own Tower of David. Friday, February 14 – The Hebrew City and • Jeep tour of the Golan Heights for a • Recommendation for the evening: Visit the the Jewish State perspective on Israel’s complex geopolitics as First Station Compound, Jerusalem’s restored • Walking tour of historic “Little Tel Aviv” – we visit bunkers where the Syrian army Ottoman railway station turned restaurant - once home to Zionist cultural pioneers, such “looked down” at Israel. Then look out at the cafe area. as Eliezer Ben Yehuda and S. Y. Agnon. border region from strategic Mt. Bental. • Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem • ITC Touch: Discover City of Sand and Sea, a Please choose one of the following two “touring mosaic fountain created by artist and writer and tasting” options. Both located on nearby Friday, February 21 – Holocaust, Remembrance Nachum Gutman portraying scenes from the Kibbutz Ein Zivan (Possibility of splitting the group): and Continuity….Shabbat history of Jaffa and Tel Aviv. • Chocolate making workshop at the De Karina • Tour of Yad Vashem - Israel’s national • Hear about the establishment of Tel Aviv at the Chocolate Factory or Guided tour of the Holocaust memorial and museum, including the Founders’ Monument then stroll down boutique Bahat Winery including wine tasting. Holocaust History Museum and Children’s to view the Bauhaus • Barbeque dinner with young Israeli soldiers Memorial. (Children under age 10 are not architecture for which central Tel Aviv was who are giving some of the best years of their permitted in Yad Vashem’s historical museum). declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. lives to the defense of Israel. • Alternate program for younger children: Visit • Visit the new Israeli Innovation Center • Overnight: Kibbutz Kfar Blum Jerusalem’s Biblical , where you’ll see located in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to animals which lived in Israel during biblical times. learn how Israel became the Start Up Nation. Tuesday, February 18 – Across Israel: Many (Children must be accompanied by an adult). • Lunch on your own and free time to explore the Faces of the Jewish People • Lunch on own in Yad Vashem Cafeteria crafts fair. While there checkout the nearby • Discover Ethiopian Jewish culture at the • Discover the story of ’s founding father Carmel Market and bohemian Sheinkin Street Germachin Center in Beit Shean. Learn Theodore Herzl at the multimedia Herzl Museum. – All three of these Tel Aviv icons meet at the about this community’s modern day Exodus • Explore the bustling, Machane Yehuda Market “Magen David Junction”. story and the challenges facing the Ethiopian and take in a slice of local life as you see • Free time to get ready for Shabbat. Israeli community today. Jerusalemites prepare for Shabbat. On the way, • Shabbat evening services at Beit Samueli • Lunch on Kibbutz Sde Eliahu see the nearby picturesque Nachalaot Reform Congregation in Ranaana, a suburb of • Visit Bio-Bee on Kibbutz Sde Eliahu, world neighborhoods. Tel Aviv. leaders in organic agriculture to hear how Friday/Shabbat evening options: • Home hospitality Shabbat dinner with they are using very effectively biological Join hundreds of other Jews from around members of Beit Samueli Reform Congregation. pest control, rather than toxic pesticides to • the world to Greet the Sabbath at the Overnight: Carlton Hotel, Tel Aviv protect their crops. • Western Wall. Option to pray together as a Travel south through the • Jordan Valley and congregation at the egalitarian “Masorati Saturday, February 15 – And on the Seventh ascend to Jerusalem Kotel”, where men and women can stand Check in to the in Day….in Tel Aviv • Inbal Hotel Jerusalem together or attend Friday night services at a • Shabbat morning services – To be • Free evening. Dinner on own. local Jerusalem synagogue. determined with Rabbi Holtz. Check out • Recommendation for the evening: • Festive Shabbat Dinner at hotel • ITC Touch: Guided tour of David Ben Gurion’s the Ben Yehuda Street Pedestrian Mall in Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem house in Tel Aviv. downtown Jerusalem. • • Traditional Shabbat Lunch at hotel. • Overnight: Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem • ITC Touch: At the Chaim Arlozorov Memorial Saturday, February 22 – And on the Seventh in front of your hotel, discover a fascinating, Wednesday, February 19 – Masada and the Day….in Jerusalem but forgotten figure in modern Jewish history. Dead Sea: Freedom Fighters or Fanatics? • Shabbat morning services at the synagogue • ITC Touch: Visit the “Aliyah Bet” Memorial in • Set out across the Judean Desert and ascend of your choice (recommendations and London Square, overlooking the site where in Masada by cable car to tour the ruins of directions will be provided). 1939 the illegal immigrant ship “Tiger Hill” ran a Herod’s palace and the last outpost of Jewish • Shabbat Lunch at hotel. ground in order to unload its passengers, who independence. Discussion: Which Jewish • Walking tour to the historic Montefiore were greeted on the beach by Tel Avivians who Legacy – Masada or Yavne? Who were our Windmill to discover the first neighbourhood hoped to hide them from the British. ancesters? What did they choose? built outside the walls of the Old City. Then • Free time to walk along the beach side • Swim in the Dead Sea, the lowest place on continue to Ketef Hinnom, a First Temple Promenade and see the people of Tel Aviv earth, at a local resort. The resort also has a period burial site where archaeologists enjoying Shabbat afternoon, including Israeli fresh water pool and spa facilities. Massage discovered the oldest biblical text ever found. folk-dancing or stroll along the boardwalk in and spa treatments available by prior • Havdallah with Rabbi Holtz nearby . reservation at own expense. • Farewell dinner at Olive and Fish Restaurant • Havdallah with Rabbi Holtz • Lunch at Dead Sea resort • Transfer to Ben Gurion Airport • Free evening. Dinner on own. • Time permitting: Walk in Ein Gedi Nature • Overnight: Carlton Hotel, Tel Aviv Reserve opportunity to bathe in waterfalls and Sunday, February 23 – Arrive in USA hear how David hid there from King Saul • Begin planning next Israel trip with Rabbi Sunday, February 16 – Encountering the • Stop off at “Abraham’s Tent” for a Camel Holtz and ITC Tours! Roman World and Mystical Tzfat ride and biblical hospitality before returning to • Depart for northern Israel Jerusalem.