Israel Trip: Itinerary 2008

Celebrate Israel's 60th! • Led by Mark Shinar May 11-22, 2008

Date

Program

Meals/Overnight

Sunday May 11

Departure from Oakland

Monday May 12

Arrival at Ben Gurion airport on Delta at 5:25pm.

Welcome BBQ dinner in Tel Aviv.

Lunch at Magal

Overnight:  Hotel Armon Hayarkon, Tel Aviv

Tuesday May 13

10:30 Independence Hall

12:30 Kibbutz Magal Jaffa Institute-Food Packages

19:00 Dialogue Through Darkness Experience in Holon.

Lunch at Magal

Cash Dinner

Overnight: Hotel Armon Hayarkon, Tel Aviv

Wednesday May 14

10:30 Ayalon Institute-secret underground bullet factory.

Volunteer with Project Leket-picking left over fruits & vegetables to be donated.

Shmitta text study.

Bar Kochba Caves.

Travel to Arad.

Camel ride and Bedouin dinner.

Camp out in a Bedouin tent under the stars.

Cash Lunch in Rechovot

Bedouin Dinner

Overnight: Kfar Hanokdim Camel Ranch

Thursday May 15

Hike to Nahal Arugot at Ein Gedi.

Float in the Dead Sea.

15:00 Visit the Techelet Factory in Kfar Adumim.

Ethiopian Encounter in Maaleh Adumim.

Shehechiyanu from Mt. Scopus.

Lunch at Ein Gedi Youth Hostel

Dinner at hostel

Overnight: Bet Shmuel Youth Hostel

Friday May 16

Haas Promenade-Akedat Yitzhak, Jerusalem Panorama with students from Mevasseret Zion.

Ir David-3D movie and Hezekiahs Tunnel.

Jewish Quarter scavenger hunt and cash lunch.

Kabbalat Shabbat at the Kotel followed by Shabbat dinner

Cash Lunch in Rova

Shabbat dinner at hostel

Overnight: Bet Shmuel Youth Hostel

Shabbat May 17

Shabbat morning tefilot at local synagogue.

Shabbat lunch at hotel

Walking tour of Jerusalem neighborhoods

Seudah Shlishit picnic

Havdalah

Evening: Free time on Ben Yehuda Street

Shabbat lunch at hostel

Seudat Shlishit picnic

Cash Dinner

Overnight: Bet Shmuel Youth Hostel

Sunday May 18

Yad Vashem

15:15 Herzl Museum and Har Herzl Military Cemetery

19:20 Time Elevator

Lunch at Yad Vashem

Cash Dinner

Overnight: Bet Shmuel Youth Hostel

Monday May 19

Depart for the North.

Talmudic Tzippori.

Arbel Cliff Hike

Zefat synagogues, shopping time and Shtender Program with Noah Greenberg.

Picnic Lunch

Cash Dinner in Zefat

Overnight: Kibbutz Hukok

Tuesday May 20

Bring goodie packages to IDF soldiers along the Lebanese Border.

Naot Mordechai Sandal Factory

Ascend Golan Heights.

Mt. Bental overlook

14:00 OZ 77 movie about the Yom Kippur War

Nahal Devorah hike to Jilaboun Waterfall

Kinneret Boat Ride

Packed Lunch

Cash Dinner in Tiberias

Overnight: Kibbutz Hukok

Wednesday May 21

Meet Aryeh Malkin of Kibbutz Ein Dor-Aryeh who is a NY native who was a crew member on an Aliyah Bet boat that was raided by the British.

14:00 Visit Beit Aharonson, to learn about the NILI spy ring.

Meet Rabbi Yair Silverman

Farewell Dinner in Petach Tikvah

Transfer to airport for departing flight on Delta at 11:25pm.

Cash Lunch in Zichron Yaakov

Farewell Dinner at Entrecote

Thursday May 22

Arrival in Oakland.

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