DAY 1 - JERUSALEM
Upon arrival in Israel, you will be met by a Ya'lla Tours USA representative and transferred to your Jerusalem hotel for overnight.

DAY 2 - JERUSALEM
Drive to the Mount of Olives for a panoramic view of Jerusalem. Continue to Mt. Zion and David's Tomb. Enter the Old City through the Zion Gate. See the Burnt House, the Herodian Quarter, the Western Wall, the multi-media presentation at Davidson Center and the Western Wall Tunnel. Walk to the Tower of David and visit the new Museum of the History of Jerusalem.
Return to your hotel for overnight.

DAY 3 - JERUSALEM
Visit Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. Drive to Mt. Herzl for a visit to the Military Cemetery and the tombs of Theodor Herzel, Golda Meir and Itzhak Rabin. Continue to the Hadassah Medical Center to see the Chagall Windows in the synagogue there. Drive to the Tank Memorial at Latrun Junction.
Return to Jerusalem and your hotel for overnight.

DAY 4 - JERUSALEM
Visit the Israel Museum and the Shrine of the Book to see the exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the model of Jerusalem from the days of the Second Temple. Drive to the JFK Memorial. Continue to the Avshalom Stalactite Cave. Return to Jerusalem via the the Scroll of Fire Monument.
Return to your hotel for overnight.

DAY 5 - EILAT
Depart Jerusalem and drive to the Negev Desert through its largest city of Beer Sheva. Arrive at Kibbutz Sde Boker and visit Ben Gurion’s Hut and Tomb.
Then drive through the spectacular Ramon Crater (Israel’s Grand Canyon).
Arrive at your hotel for overnight.

DAY 6 - EILAT
Enjoy a few hours on the Red Sea. Then visit the Underwater Observatory and see some wonderful flora and fauna.
Drive to Taba and the Egyptian border.
Return to your hotel for a free afternoon and overnight.DAY 7 - DEAD SEA
Visit the Timna Valley and climb on King Solomon’s Pillars.
Drive northward through the Arava Valley to Masada. At Masada, take the cable car to the top of the rock and visit the Roman palaces, store houses, synagogues and bath house which witnessed the Jewish resistance to the Romans approximately 2,000 years ago. Descend by cable car and drive to the Dead Sea, the lowest place on Earth for overnight.

DAY 8 - TIBERIAS
Enjoy free time this morning to relax and soak up the beauty of the Dead Sea and experience the therapeutic Dead Sea mineral treatments offered at the hotel spa (not included).
Late in the morning, depart the hotel and drive north along the Dead Sea via Jericho, the oldest city in the world. Continue through the Jordan Valley to the Bika Monument, a memorial to the Israeli soldiers who died in this area between 1967-1971.
Continue to Belvoir (Kohav HaYarden), one of the best-preserved crusader fortresses in Israel. Walk across the moat and visit the fortress with its spectacular views of the Jordan Valley.
Arrive in Tiberias, one of the 4 holiest cities in Judaism, for overnight.

DAY 9 - TIBERIAS
Drive to another of the four holiest Jewish cities, Safed (Tzfat), steeped in the mystical tradition of Kabbalah. Visit the art galleries and the ancient synagogues.
Drive to Tel Hai and visit the site where Yoseph Trumpeldor lived and where he died in 1921, inspiring one of Israel's greatest modern legends.
Continue to the Golan Heights and visit the Israel/Syria border.
In the Valley of the Tears, hear the moving story of the brave Colonel Kahalani’s battle to secure the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Continue to Mt. Bental for an outstanding view of the Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights.
Drive to Katzrin, the only city in the Golan Heights, with a visit to its famous winery, Golan Wines.  
Visit the Caprece Diamond Center and see Israel's largest export industry in action.
Return to your hotel for overnight.

DAY 10 - TEL AVIV
Drive across the Galilee to the Mediterranean.
Arrive in Rosh Hanikra. Take the cable car down to the grotto and see one of Israel’s most unusual natural phenomena.
Continue to Mt. Carmel and the city of Haifa. Enjoy the panoramic views of the largest port of Israel, and the Shrine of the Baha’i.
Visit the Naval and Clandestine Immigration Museum and learn about the establishment of the only Hebrew Navy in the world.
Onto Akko (ancient Acre), the maritime capital of the Crusader Kingdom. Visit the Knights' Halls, one of the most beautiful and impressive remains from this period.
Drive along the Mediterranean Coast to the ancient Roman city of Caesarea, a large port city built by Herod the Great to honor Roman Caesar Augustus. Herod built a port in the bay and erected all the cultural institutions found in every great Greco-Roman city, including a theater, a hippodrome, a luxurious bathhouse. To supply water to the city’s ever-growing population, he built an aqueduct system stretching from the springs of Mt. Carmel to Caesarea.
Drive to Tel Aviv, the largest and most vibrant city in Israel, for overnight.

DAY 11 - TEL AVIV
Visit the ANU Museum of the Jewish People, newly opened in 2021. In four spectacular wings, the largest Jewish Museum in the world tells the story of the Jewish people, highlighting the creative works and cultural riches of a variety of communities through different periods of history.
Continue with a visit to Old Yafo. Stroll around the galleries and narrow streets of this biblical city dating back to the days of King Solomon.
Return to your hotel for overnight.            

DAY 12 - TEL AVIV
Today is at your leisure in Tel Aviv.
Don’t miss the community Israeli folk dancing on the beach in front of the Ramada Hotel at beginning at 11:30am.
Breakfast and overnight are provided.

DAY 13 - TEL AVIV
Start the day at the Rabin Memorial and learn about the life and legacy of the Prime Minister of Israel killed by an extremist Jew as he was seeking peace.   
Depart Tel Aviv and drive along the Mediterranean to see the spot where the Egyptian Army was stopped in 1948, saving Tel Aviv and central Israel.

Continue to the kibbutzim and moshavim around Gaza. Stop at the Nova Monument on the site where approximately 4,000 people celebrated on the night of October 6 and early morning of October 7, 2023. Around 6:30am they were brutally attacked with missiles and hundreds of Hamas terrorists. Almost 400 people were killed, hundreds wounded and several dozen were abducted to Gaza.   
Arrive at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the kibbutzim most impacted, with many of its members killed, wounded and kidnapped to Gaza. Visit the destroyed home of a young couple, Sivan Elkabetz and Naor Hasidim, killed by Hamas on October 7. Both were 23 years old; they had been together since they were 16. Sivan’s parents, also members of the kibbutz, decided to keep their daughter’s home as a tribute.
Return to Tel Aviv for overnight.

DAY 14 -
You will be transferred to the airport for your departure flight.

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