• Arrive at the Vienna International Airport at 8:35am.
• Connect to Austrian Airlines flight #857 at 10:25am
• 2:50 p.m. Arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport on Austrian Air flight OS857.
• Welcome by our representative and assistance with arrival formalities.
• Transfer to Tel Aviv and drive through 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.
• Check into the hotel.
• Enjoy a middle-eastern style welcome 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:  Mercure B & P 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.
• Hands on Zedek program with the Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa ("The Jaffa Institute"), a private, non-profit, multi-service social agency, established in order to assist thousands of severely disadvantaged children and their families including food packing.
• Lunch on your own, en route.
• Visit the Old City of Jaffa and stroll through the renovated artists' colony and the ancient port.
• 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 and enjoy lunch on your own.
• Enjoy dinner on your own in Tel Aviv, at a choice of a wide array of restaurants from the Tel Aviv Port to Jaffa, and downtown Tel Aviv.

Overnight: Mercure B & P Hotel, Tel Aviv

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Check out of the hotel and drive via the coastal plain 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.
• Walk through the 2,000 year old underground water tunnels at Park Alona, which once brought water to Caesarea.
• Look through a window into the unique world of the Israeli Druze Community, with home hospitality lunch.
• Drive to the Upper Galilee.
• Visit the Hula Lake (Agamon Hahula) for bike riding, nature walks and bird watching.
• Check into the hotel.
• Dinner at the hotel.

Overnight: Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, Upper Galilee
 

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Explore Safed, a center of Jewish mysticism for hundreds of years, and a contemporary artists' colony, including:
• Visit the Cana'an Gallery in Safed for a glimpse at the world of mystical art and a weaving workshop. (booked at 9:00 a.m.)
• 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.
• Lunch on own en route.
• Jeep tour climbing to the Golan Heights in the footsteps of IDF soldiers and their battles in the Six Day War, to enjoy the beautiful natural scenery and gain an insight into the strategic complexity of the Golan.
• Enjoy rafting down the Jordan River.
• Return to the hotel for dinner.

Overnight: Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, Upper Galilee

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Early start and check out of the hotel, driving southwards via Tiberias, a bustling city located on the shores of the Kinneret, one of the four holy Jewish cities in Israel to the Kinneret Cemetery to hear about the dreams of the early Zionist pioneers.
• Drive through the Jordan Rift Valley towards 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 the Western Wall to say the traditional shehechiyanu blessing.
• Lunch on your own in the Old City.
• Short orientation walking tour through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, to see some of the sites excavated over the past 30 years, including the Cardo, a Byzantine street that is now the world's oldest shopping arcade and the Hurva Square, the central square of the Jewish Quarter.
• Check into the hotel and time to relax, or experience the sites, smells, and tastes of Jerusalem while walking through the Machaneh Yehuda Market.
• Time to prepare for Shabbat.
• Kabbalat Shabbat at Kehillat Kol Haneshema led by Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman.
• Festive Shabbat dinner at Beit Shmuel in a private room, joined by lone soldiers, who serve in the IDF but have no family in Israel.

Overnight: Prima Royale, Jerusalem

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Descend to the Dead Sea Basin.
• 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 in modern Israel.
• Lunch on own at Masada.
• Short hike to Nahal David the freshwater spring at the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve, a lush oasis in the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea.
• Experience the weightlessness of the Dead Sea as you float in its waters.
• Return to Jerusalem.
• Ben Kodesh Lechol Havdallah overlooking the Old City.
• Free time in the Mamilla Pedestrian Arcade, a new and contemporary shopping area, located outside the Jaffa Gate of the Old City.
• The Night Spectacular at the Tower of David Museum - a celebration of music and light reflecting Jerusalem's 3000 year story.

Overnight: Prima Royale, Jerusalem

• 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
• Boxed lunch en route.
•  Plant a Tree in a Jewish National Fund forest.
• 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.
• Return to Jerusalem and dinner at leisure.

Overnight: Prima Royale, Jerusalem