Our Itinerary (Outline)

June 17
Leave Cleveland, connect in Atlanta, en route to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv

June 18
Arrive in Israel
View Jerusalem from Mt. Scopus
Hotel check-in and dinner
Did we just lose 7 hours?

June 19: Jerusalem Through the Ages
City of David
Hezekiah's water tunnel
Mt. Zion
Old City/Jewish Quarter
Cardo
Kotel (Wall)

June 20: From Out of the Crucible
Yad Vashem (Holocaust Museum)
Outdoor market
Ethiopian Jewish immigrants
Kabbalat Shabbat service

June 21: Shabbat in Jerusalem
Historic walking tour
Havdalah
Kotel (Wall) tunnels

June 22: Building a Jewish State/Dig the Past
Israel Religious Action Center
Herzl Museum
Archeological adventure
Camel trek
Night at Bedouin tent

June 23: What Price Freedom?
Early morning hike up Masada
Ein Gedi waterfalls
Float in the Dead Sea
Home hospitality dinner in Beit Shean

June 24: Land of Borders
Tour Bein Shean
Golan Heights
Visit Syria border bunkers
Waterfall hike or Golan Heights Winery
Dinner in Tzfat (Safed)

June 25: Mountains & Mystics
Kabbalistic artist
Magical mystery tour of Tzfat
IDF border soldiers
Family rafting on Jordan River
Artists Colony dinner and music

June 26: Mayim, Mayim
Swim in natural pools in Beit Shean
Tel Aviv program to feed the needy
Old Jaffa walking tour
Expore Tel Aviv

June 27: To be free in our own land
Independence Hall
Palmach Museum
Shopping at Nahalat Binyamin street market
Shabbat service

June 28: Shabbat Peace in Tel Aviv
Yitzhak Rabin memorial
Beaches
Concluding Havdallah
Head to airport

June 29
Return to Cleveland
Regain lost 7 hours
Check mail and mow lawn