DAY TWO: Thursday, February 17, 2011
ARRIVAL

• 4:10 p.m. Arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport on Continental airlines flight CO 90.
• Welcome by our representative and assistance with arrival formalities.
• Drive through Tel Aviv, known as the “city that never sleeps” and pass by centers of culture and recreation such as the Habima Theater, sprawling beaches, Dizengoff Street and Rabin Square.
• Tel Aviv - Unique or Normal: visit the Jaffa Overlook for an introduction to Tel Aviv at the place where it all began.
• Check into the hotel.
• Welcome middle-eastern style dinner with a Yemenite touch at Maganda with a varied selection of salads and grilled meats, located in the Yemenite Quarter of Tel Aviv.

  Overnight: Dan Panorama, Tel Aviv

DAY THREE: Friday, February 18, 2011
TEL AVIV AND THE COAST

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Check out of the hotel.
• Visit to Independence Hall, site of David Ben Gurion's monumental proclamation of the State of Israel in May 1948.
• Visit the Nachalat Binyamin pedestrian mall, with its restored buildings and sidewalk artists, and continue onto the colorful Carmel Market and then to Shenkin, one of Israel's most avant-garde streets.
• Drive north via the coastal plain.
• Guided visit to Caesarea, one of the Land of Israel's most important cities during the Roman Period; visit the Herodian Theater and new excavations along the Mediterranean shore concluding with the new interactive audio-visual program ‘The Stars of Caesarea,' located in the 900-year-old crusader city built on the same site.
• Lunch on your own en route.
• Continue to Haifa and stop on top of Mount Carmel for a scenic overlook of Haifa Bay.
• Check into your hotel and prepare for Shabbat.
• Attend Shabbat services at the Or Hadash Reform congregation in Haifa with Rabbi Edgar Nof and congregants, followed by home hospitality.

  Overnight: Dan Panorama, Haifa

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Drive to Nahariya for Shabbat services with Kehillat Emet V'Shalom.
• Kiddush-lunch with the congregation.
• Possible activity with the congregation.
• Visit Acre (Akko), a UNESCO Heritage Site, and a multi-layered experience from the days of the Crusades through contemporary Israel, including guided visits to:
• The newly renovated Crusaders' City.
• The Templar Canal to the port of Acre.
• The renovated Turkish Bath (Hamam) with its unique audiovisual experience.
• The Ottoman Fortifications around the city.
• Return to Haifa and dinner at leisure.

  Overnight: Dan Panorama, Haifa

DAY FIVE: Sunday, February 20, 2011
THE COMMUNITIES OF ISRAEL

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Check out of the hotel and drive to Safed, a center of Jewish mysticism for hundreds of years, and a contemporary artists' colony, with visits including:
• Guided visits to the Ari and Abuhav Synagogues with their great stories and mystical messages
• A dialogue with an Artist inspired by Kabbalistic messages.
• A stroll through the quaint Art Galleries and shop in the artists' colony.
• Jeep ride through the Galilee Mountains from the Bat Ya'ar Ranch through the Biriya Forest.
• Lunch on your own.
• Explore Israel's security situation on the Golan Heights while overlooking the Hula Valley from former Syrian fortifications. Cross the Golan Plateau to the border with Syria and observe the abandoned city of Kuneitra and the United Nations outpost located nearby.
• Wine Tasting at a boutique winery in the Golan and for the children
   the culinary delight of Chocolate Making while taking part in a creative food workshop.
• Check into your kibbutz guesthouse.
• Dinner at the guesthouse.

Overnight: Hagoshrim, Kibbutz Guesthouse, Upper Galilee

Overnight: Dan Panorama, Jerusalem

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Overlook Jerusalem from atop the Mount of Olives for a view of the glorious old and new cities of Jerusalem.
• Explore Christian East Jerusalem through visits with Christian personalities and institutions with Hanna Bendcowsky of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish Christian Relations.
• Walking tour through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, for guided visits to some of the sites excavated over the past 30 years, including:
• Guided visit to the Davidson Archaeological Park with a special visit to the Davidson Center, to view the new presentation of Life During the Time of the Temple, followed by a guided visit to the Southern Wall Excavations.
• The Kotel (Western Wall).
• Visit the Western Wall Tunnel, the underground continuation of the Western Wall along the Temple Mount.
• Lunch on your own.
• The Cardo, a Byzantine street that is now the world's oldest shopping arcade
• The Hurva Square, the central square of the Jewish Quarter.
• Return to the hotel.
• Dinner on your own and evening at leisure.

  Overnight: Dan Panorama, Jerusalem

Overnight: Dan Panorama, Jerusalem

DAY NINE: Thursday, February 24, 2011
AT LEISURE IN JERUSALEM

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Day at leisure to explore Jerusalem on your own, OR optionally, take part in an active dig at the Beit Guvrin Caves and prepare to get your hands dirty as you uncover pottery from the Hellenistic period, 2,300 years ago, followed by a crawl through the Maresha Cave Labyrinth.

Overnight: Dan Panorama, Jerusalem

DAY TEN: Friday, February 25, 2011
MEMORIES FOR THE FUTURE

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Guided visit through the newly renovated Yad Vashem complex, the Jewish National Memorial to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, including:
• The Avenue of the Righteous
• The new Historical Museum
• The Children's Memorial
• A concluding Memorial Service
• Lunch on your own.
• LaDa'at  The Geopolitics of Jerusalem -  Travel through the city of Jerusalem exploring some of the political and diplomatic complexities of recent years, including Har Homa, Gilo and the new ‘Security Fence' in the Jerusalem area with an in - depth study seminar on the ramifications of current developments.
• Return to the hotel and prepare for Shabbat.
• Kabbalat Shabbat services and home hospitality dinner at Kehilat Mevasseret Zion.

Overnight: Dan Panorama, Jerusalem