• Arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport on individual flights.
• Welcome by our representative and assistance with arrival formalities.
• Individual transfers to Tel Aviv and check into the hotel.
• Meet at the hotel lobby and depart for dinner.
• Welcome Dinner at Maganda, located in the Yemenite Quarter of Tel Aviv, which offers a varied selection of salads and grilled meats.

Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Visit to Independence Hall, site of David Ben Gurion's monumental proclamation of the State of Israel in May 1948.
• Visit the Old City of Jaffa and stroll through the renovated artists' colony and the ancient port.
• Ethnic and Tasting Tour, culinary tour of the Levinsky Market, including lunch on own.
• 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.
• Visit to Natal, Israel's Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War.
• Return to the hotel.
• Meet with Elad Vazana, a leading Peace Activist in Israel.
• Dinner at the hotel.
• Israel Mourns, join a ceremony on the eve of Israel's Memorial Day.

Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Check out of the hotel and 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 a visit to the 900-year-old crusader city built on the same site.
• A Voice Called: Listen to the siren during a ceremony for Israel's Memorial Day in Sdot Yam, the home town of Hannah Sennesh.
• Lunch on own.
• Explore Safed, a center of Jewish mysticism for hundreds of years, and a contemporary artists' colony, including:
  • Guided visits to the Ari, Caro or Abuhav Synagogues with their great stories and mystical messages.
  • A stroll through the quaint Art Galleries and shop in the artists' colony.
  • Dialogue with an Artist inspired by Kabbalistic messages.
• Drive to the kibbutz and check into the hotel.
• Dinner at the hotel.
• Join Israel's Independence Day Celebrations at the kibbutz, including a live performance by an Israeli artist.

Overnight: Pastoral Kfar Blum, Upper Galilee
 

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Drive along the Lebanese Border for powerful overviews and further insight into the strategic realities facing Israel regarding Lebanon, specifically in the aftermath of the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
• Explore Israel's security situation on the Golan Heights and the challenges it faced leading up to the Six Day War 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 for further insight into the experiences during the Yom Kippur 1973 war.
• Lunch on own en route.
• Visit the Havat Hashomer Army Base.
• Visit the Valley of Springs regional council or visit the 1,500-year-old Beit Alpha Synagogue on Kibbutz Heftzibah, located at the foot of the Gilboa Mountain range, with its beautiful mosaic floor, for an insight into Jewish spiritual life during the Byzantine period.
• Barbecue Dinner with members of the Beit Shean community.
• Sing Along with local residents.
• Night visit to the Beit Shean National Park, one of Israel's largest archaeological sites and see the sound and light show.
• Return to the kibbutz hotel.

Overnight: Pastoral Kfar Blum, Upper Galilee

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Check out of the hotel.
• Visit the Galil Mountain Winery, located on Kibbutz Yiron on the Lebanese Border, a young offshoot of the Golan Winery which has quickly developed its own wine identity, with wine tasting.
• Drive south to Jerusalem.
• Welcome to Jerusalem - Enter the vibrant and colourful 3,000-year-old city of Jerusalem and experience the convergence of the old and the new.
• Stop at Mount Scopus to say the traditional shehechiyanu blessing.
• Experience the sites, smells, and tastes of Jerusalem while walking through the Machaneh Yehuda Market, with lunch on your own (time permitting).
• Kabbalat Shabbat service at Kehillat Yozma in Modi'in, led by Rabbi Nir Barkan.
• Home Hospitality Shabbat Dinner with local congregants of Kehillat Yozma.

Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Walk along the Ramparts of the Old City.
• Walk along the Rooftops of the Old City for a behind the scenes look at the various communities in Jerusalem and how they live together.
• Lunch on own.
• Walk through Jerusalem's famous Old City Market (shuk).
• Visit the Israel Museum, one of the most creative and innovative museums in the world with a wide and eclectic collection, ranging from Judaica and archaeology to Renaissance and contemporary Israeli art, concluding with a visit to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Shrine of the Book and the newly restored Second Temple Period Model of Jerusalem.
• Return to the hotel.
• Ben Kodesh Lechol Havdallah overlooking the Old City.
• Dinner on own and evening at leisure.

Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Enter the Old City of Jerusalem via the Dung Gate.
• Visit the Western Wall Tunnel, the underground continuation of the Western Wall alongside the Temple Mount.
• Guided visit to the Jerusalem Archaeological Park, including a visit to the Davidson Center and the Southern Wall Excavations.
• Walk through the Cardo, a Byzantine street that is now the world's oldest shopping arcade.
• Pass by the Hurva Square, the central square of the Jewish Quarter.
• Lunch in the Old City on your own.
• 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
• Return to the hotel and dinner on your own.

Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Depart the hotel.
• Visit a Magen David Adom station and meet dedicated MADA volunteers.
• Descend to the Dead Sea Basin and ascend the cable car or walk up the snake path to Masada, Herod's mountain palace and site of the Jewish Zealots' last stand against the Roman Legionnaires.  Discuss Masada's role as a symbol of Jewish defence and its current significance
• Bathe in the relaxing and healthy sulphur springs at a Dead Sea Resort Hotel and float in the Dead Sea, including lunch at the hotel.
• Return to Jerusalem.
• LaDa'at  The Geopolitics of Jerusalem - Drive through the city of Jerusalem exploring some of the political and diplomatic complexities of recent years, including the ‘Security Fence' in the Jerusalem area.
• Return to the hotel.
• Enjoy dinner on your own in Jerusalem, at a choice of a wide array of restaurants.

Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Check out for those extending to Eilat and Petra. 
• Dialogue with Rabbi Michael Melchior, a leading advocate for social justice in Israel and a former Member of Knesset.  
• Guided tour of the Knesset, the seat of Israel's Parliament.
• Visit the new Herzl Center, located at Mount Herzl, dedicated to the life and achievements of the founder of Political Zionism, Theodore Herzl, followed by a visit to the graves of Theodore Herzl and Yitzhak Rabin.
• Return to the hotel.
• Late check-out from the hotel for those not extending their trip to Eilat and/or Petra. 
• Festive Farewell Dinner at Little Jerusalem Restaurant in the quaint Anna Ticho House.

For Participants Extending to Eilat and Petra:

• Transfer to Sde Dov for the domestic flight to Eilat.
• Check in for your flight to Eilat.
• 9:00 p.m.  Depart Sde Dov on Israir flight #455 (Reservation # 1678451)
• Upon arrival in Eilat, transfer to the hotel for check-in.

Overnight: Rimonim, Eilat