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Program
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Arrival at Ben Gurion airport.
Transfer to hotel for check-in, welcome dinner, and orientation.
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Welcome Dinner at hotel
Overnight: Kfar Hamaccabiah, Ramat Gan
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Morning speaker: Neil Lazarus-an entertaining
yet highly informative background to the Arab/Israeli conflict.
"IDF 101" with officer from the Israeli Defense Forces. What makes the Israeli army unique?
Lunch stop in the Ramat Aviv Mall's food court.
Visit the multi-media Palmach Museum, dedicated to this elite unit
in the Haganah, the predecessor to the IDF in the 1940s.
Return to hotel for dinner. Evening at leisure.
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Lunch-on own in Tel Aviv
Dinner at hotel
Overnight: Kfar Hamaccabiah, Ramat Gan
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Spend the rest of the day sailing or participating in another activity with Etgarim, an organization founded
by a group of disabled IDF veterans which enables those who are disabled to fully enjoy the outdoors.
(Alternative program
at the Ramat Gan Sports Rehab Center).
Evening:
Reception with the US Ambassador to Israel.
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Picnic Lunch
Dinner-TBA
Overnight: Kfar Hamaccabiah, Ramat Gan
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Visit
the Israeli armored corps museum at Latrun.
Continue
to Jerusalem. Outlook over the city from the Haas Promenade. Descend to the Western Wall Plaza (Kotel).
Check-in at hotel.
Dinner with Israeli terror victims at a local restaurant.
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Lunch-on own en route
Dinner at local restaurant
Overnight: Grand Court Hotel, Jerusalem
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We learn and remember at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Complex,
including visits to the historical museum, sculpture garden, and memorial to the Righteous Among the Nations. Explore the vibrant Machaneh Yehuda fruit & vegetable market (shuk)
as Jerusalem residents prepare for the Sabbath. Join thousands
of Israeli's and visitors from around the world at the Western Wall, welcoming the Jewish Sabbath with prayer, song and dance.
Return to the hotel for a festive Sabbath meal.
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Lunch at Yad Vashem cafeteria
Dinner at hotel
Overnight: Grand Court Hotel, Jerusalem
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Day at leisure to visit Jerusalem’s museums or the Arab shuk. Optional tour of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter. Evening: Cultural event, concert, or sporting event TBA.
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Lunch-on own
Dinner-on own
Overnight: Grand Court Hotel, Jerusalem
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Day trip to the Dead Sea Region. Ascend Herod’s
mountain fortress of Masada by cable car to explore why the Jewish rebels chose to live here after the destruction of Jerusalem
by the Romans. Descend by cable car. Float in the unique waters of
the Dead Sea. Return to Jerusalem. Dinner and evening at leisure.
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Lunch at Ein Gedi
Dinner-on own
Overnight: Grand Court Hotel, Jerusalem
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Morning speaker: Former IDF Chief of Staff and current Minister of Strategic Affairs, General (Res.)
Moshe Ya’alon. Learn how Israel is on the cutting edge of hi-tech
research and development. (Biotech prosthetics) Travel north to
the Galilee along the Jordan River Valley. See where Jesus delivered the famous Sermon on the Mount at the Mt. of Beatitudes.
Visit the 2,000 year old fishing boat found at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee. Check-in at Golden Tulip hotel in Tiberias. Dinner in Tiberias
followed by a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee.
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Picnic Lunch
Dinner in Tiberias
Overnight: Golden Tulip Hotel, Tiberias
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Meet IDF soldiers on their base along the Lebanese border. Survey the border with former commander of the Golani Brigade, Col. (Res.) Kobi Merom. Enjoy wine tasting at the Dalton Winery. Dinner
and evening at leisure in Tiberias.
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Picnic Lunch
Dinner-on own
Overnight: Golden Tulip Hotel, Tiberias
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Ascend the Golan Heights to Mt. Bental which overlooks Kuneitra, Syria as well as the “Valley of
Tears” where a fierce and decisive tank battle was fought during the Yom Kippur War. In Kiryat Shemona, meet with the staff of the trauma center or with the local firefighters who were pushed
to the limit during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Continue to Tel
Aviv for a farewell dinner before transfer to the airport for departing flight.
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Picnic Lunch
Farewell Dinner
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