Israel 360° North to South…East to West… We’re covering it all on Israel 360° By Private Car Wednesday Departures 15 Days • 13 Nights Tour Includes: • Deluxe Hotels • 7 Days Sightseeing (Israel) and 2 days (Jor- Acre dan) per Itinerary by Private Car/Microbus with Private Guide This Exclusive Tour by Private Car emphasizes the most significant sites • All Transfers by Private Car which helped shape the country into what it is today - dynamic, progressive, • VIP Meeting by our host at the Jetway of intriguing and forever memorable. With unmatched natural beauty, Israel is the Aircraft upon arrival Israel like no other place on earth. Join us on this iconic journey. • Flight from Tel Aviv to Eilat Includes the fabulous Beresheet Hotel (Mitzpe Ramon) Plus Petra (Jordan). • Wine Tasting at a Golan Winery • Jeep Ride in the Golan Heights ITINERARY with the latest in fashionable boutiques, • Special Kibbutz Tour at Sde Eliahu trendy cafes and restaurants. A • “Night Spectacular” Sound & Light Show Wednesday: En route delightful afternoon. On your return in Jerusalem Depart the USA on your flight to Israel. to your hotel, your guide will point • “Shuk Bites” tasting Experience at out and suggest to you a few more Machane Yehuda Market Thursday: Tel Aviv popular areas of Tel Aviv—Neve Tzedek • Jeep Ride at Wadi Rum in Jordan Welcome to Israel! Arrive Ben Gurion (Tel Aviv’s “Soho”), and one of the • Jeep Ride at Mitzpe Ramon, Negev Desert Airport where you will be met at the first neighborhoods in Tel Aviv built in Israel Sleeve/Jetway of the aircraft for a VIP outside Jaffa. Or stroll through the • Visa for Jordan and swift transport through customs “Tachana”, an open pedestrian area converted from an old railway station • “Petra Kitchen” Cooking class and baggage claim procedure. Transfer also with shops, cafes and pubs. You • VIP Express Airport Check-in Service and to your hotel on the Mediterranean ISRAEL 360° may wish to visit these areas during Dan VIP Lounge at Ben Gurion Airport Shore. Enjoy light snacks in the exclusive Executive VIP Lounge of leisure time in Tel Aviv. Return to your (Upon return to U.S.) the hotel. The balance of the day is hotel for the balance of the evening. at leisure. Overnight Tel Aviv. Tonight, you may wish to dine at the 20 Meals: hotel enjoying a traditional Friday • Buffet Breakfast Daily Friday: Tel Aviv night dinner (optional). (B) • “Tasting” Lunch at Mahane Yehuda Market Begin with an elaborate buffet Saturday: Tel Aviv • Lunch at a Spa Hotel, Dead Sea breakfast at your hotel. You will then • Lunch in Wadi Rum, Jordan meet your expert private guide and A full day at leisure taking in the sights and sounds of this vibrant • Dinner in Petra begin a great discovery of Tel Aviv cosmopolitan city. Explorations are • Lunch in Petra known as the “White City” for its splendid Bauhaus Architecture from endless. Overnight in Tel Aviv. (B) • 2 Dinners at Hotel at Mitzpe Ramon the 1930’s, the largest number of buildings in this unique style of Sunday: Haifa Hotels any city in the world. Drive on to Our day will begin with a visit to the City Nights Hotel Machon Ayalon (Ayalon Institute), extraordinary Israeli Museum at the Tel Aviv 3 Carlton (Premium the reconstructed underground bullet Yitzhak Rabin Center chronicling the Sea View Room/Exec. factory located under the kibbutz life of the late Prime Minister and the Lounge Access bakery. Built and operated during development of the State of Israel. Haifa 1 Dan Carmel the years 1946-1948, this special We’ll then continue to the ancient (Deluxe Bay View) clandestine factory was prepared Roman port of Caesarea. See the secretly in less than a month. Continue huge theatre and ancient aqueduct Tiberias 1 U Boutique or Similar to the old port city of to explore which brought fresh water from the (Sea View Room) Jaffa the reconstructed Artists’ Quarter Carmel Mountains. On to the timeless Jerusalem 5 Orient with its galleries and boutiques. We’ll crusader city of Acre (Akko), with its (Orient Room/Exec. head to Tel Aviv’s popular Nachalat Middle Age fortress, subterranean Lounge Access) Binyamin, an open pedestrian Arts and city and bazaars. The old city of Acre Petra 1 Movenpick (Standard) Craft Fair where you will find a variety is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Mitzpe Ramon 2 Beresheet (Standard of hand made products as well as to the seaport city of Haifa draped on Desert View) performance artists making this a lively the sides of Mount Carmel. Stop at event and definitely the place to be on the Observation Point and view the (B) Breakfast (LL) Light Lunch (L) Lunch Friday afternoon in Tel Aviv. You’ll visit Persian Gardens at the Bahai Center. (D) Dinner the Carmel Market, a bustling open air We’ll overnight at the lovely hotel in bazaar and the lively Sheinkin Street Haifa tonight. (B) 58 | www.isramisraelusa.com Isram Israel (844) 9-ISRAEL Monday: Tiberias Depart Haifa heading to the very northern tip bordering with Lebanon to visit Rosh Hanikra: The grottos here are cavernous tunnels formed by sea action on the soft chalk rock. Drive to Safed a picturesque city of spiritual people and artists, wrapped in mysticism and mystery, and steeped in a sacred atmosphere. Visitors to Safed, spiritual center of the Kabbala, sense the city’s warm embrace as they wander through its alleyways past charming stone houses with their artists’ studios and workshops. Then, ascend the Golan Heights on a Jeep Ride for a greater understanding of the fierce battles that took place during the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War Mountain Goats at Ramon Crater, Mitzpe Ramon and learn about the strategic importance of the area. Continue through the valleys Friends of Zion Heritage Center (included), Yehuda Street (the Midrechov) and Nachalat and ranges where you will take in a breath- celebrating the Christian Heroes who have Shiva. At today’s end, you’ll feel like you’re taking panoramic view of the area. Drive contributed to the Jewish people and the really familiar with this energetic city so venture to wondrous Mt. Ben Tal for a magnificent State of Israel. These heroes come alive out on your own tonight as everything is view beyond the border into Syria. Visit an through cutting edge, high tech imaging, open late, and enjoy the many shops and army bunker and hear the fascinating story audio-visual presentations, holograms and eateries. Overnight in Jerusalem. (B.LL) of the war fought in the Golan. Visit the much more. This evening, enjoy the “Night Golan Winery, where, besides enjoying the Spectacular” Sound & Light Show at the Friday: Jerusalem elaborate presentation of the Golan area Citadel Museum. In this 45-minute state-of- This morning travel south to Masada as you you will have the opportunity to taste some the-art show, the walls of the museum come drive to the Dead Sea region, the lowest of Israel’s excellent wines. Overnight at to life with a spectacular laser technology place on earth. Ascend by cable car up the your hotel in Tiberias. (B) presentation about the History of the city. mountain to this last stronghold of the Overnight Jerusalem. Tuesday: Jerusalem (B) Zealots in their struggle against the Romans. Masada was declared a “World Heritage Drive to Bet Shean, an ancient city from Thursday: Jerusalem site”. Tour Herod’s Palace, the synagogue ISRAEL 360° the time of King Saul to see the excavated This morning, visit Yad Vashem, Israel’s and bathhouse. Descend and drive to one remains of a Roman city. Continue to National Memorial and Museum of the of the hotels on the shores of the Dead for a private tour Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu Holocaust where you will spend time touring Sea for . You’ll be able to use the spa throughout this very unusual kibbutz. You’ll Lunch the complex including the Children’s facilities and enjoy an in see how everyday living is merged with unsinkable swim Pavilion. Walk along the Avenue of the the buoyant, mineral-rich, salty waters of nature as a way of life. The combination Righteous where trees have been planted in the Dead Sea. Drive to of a Jewish Orthodox lifestyle with Ein Gedi National honor of those who risked their safety saving where a steady stream of water runs organic farming, in a vibrant, versatile and Park Jewish lives. Continue to the Israel Museum through this national reserve year round cooperative community, is something the largest cultural institution in the State giving life to a narrow band of desert. A worth seeing and experiencing. Drive of Israel. Visit the Scale Model of ancient South and rise through the mountains to large number of Ibex and other desert Jerusalem which reconstructs the topography mammals call Ein Gedi home and can nearly “golden” Jerusalem stopping first atMt. and architectural character of the city as it always be found along the water’s edge. This Scopus for a spectacular view of Jerusalem was during the Second Temple period. Enter short hike contains plenty of opportunities where we’ll toast and bless our arrival to the housing the Shrine of the Book Dead to swim and is especially relaxing and the holiest of cities. Overnight at your , the oldest biblical manuscripts in Sea Scrolls refreshing (stop at Ein Gedi is subject to lovely hotel in the heart of Jerusalem. (B) the world. You’ll have time to walk through time permitting due to early closure of the and the Israel Museum Billy Rose the park in winter).