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March 19-20

Depart Los Angeles Intern'tl Airport (LAX)

Arrive Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv

Meet & Greet by ITC and your Tour Guide, Abraham Hillel

Visit to Tel Aviv / Old Jaffa

Transfer to Leonardo Plaza Hotel on the Mediterranean

Dinner and overnight 

 

March 21

The Coast 

Caesarea Maritima on the Sea / Roman Aquaduct

Tel Megiddo hike & water tunnel

Cross the Jezreel Valley

Nazareth Village

Enter Nazareth Market place and walk to the Synagogue Church

Transfer to Kibbutz Lavi for dinner and overnight

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March 22

The Jezreel Valley - Galilee 

Mt. of Beatitudes 

St. Peter's Primacy

Capernaum

Boat Ride on the Sea of Galilee 

Ancient Boat Museum

Free time in Tiberias

Return to Kibbutz Lavi for special Shabbat dinner and overnight

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March 23

Galilee

Synagogue at Kibbutz Lavi

Home visits with kibbutz members after synagogue service 

Tour of kibbutz

Caesarea Philippi

Return to Lavi for dinner and overnight

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March 24

Galilee - Jordan Valley - Dead Sea

Baptisms at Yardenit on the Jordan River

Jordan River Valley

Jericho

View site of Dead Sea Scroll Discovery at Qumran

Masada

Transfer to David Dead Sea Hotel​

Dead Sea Swim or hotel spa facilities (optional)

Dinner and overnight

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March 25

Jordan Valley - Jerusalem

Morning hike to Springs of Ein Gedi

Ascend to Jerusalem

Blessing on Mount Scopus overlooking Jerusalem

Bethlehem overlook & Shepherd's Fields

Second Temple Jerusalem Model & Shrine of the Book

Transfer to King Solomon Hotel for dinner and overnight 

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March 26
Jerusalem

Enter into the Old City through Jaffa Gate 

Church of the Holy Sepulchre / Christian Quarter
Explore the Jewish Quarter of the Old City

Second Temple Steps 

City of David & Hezekiah's Tunnel

Return to hotel for dinner and overnight

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March 27

Day at Leisure in Jerusalem

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March 28 

Jerusalem

Early departure for Temple Mount

Pools of Bethesda & the Eastern Gate

Western Wall Tunnel Appointment

Mechane Yehuda Market

Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial

Return to hotel for dinner and overnight

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March 29

Day at Leisure in Jerusalem

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March 30

Jerusalem

Upper Room

Garden of Gethsemane

​House of Caiaphas

Scourging Floor

Lunch at Sisters of Zion (included)

Walk to the Garden Tomb

Mount of Olives

Farewell Dinner at Piccolino Restaurant in Jerusalem

Late evening departure for the airport and return to States

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March 31

Arrival back at LAX

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