Day 1: Thursday, September 25: Flight to Israel
Day 2: Friday, September 26: Arrive at Ben Gurion Airport. greeted by your Sar-El tour guide and taken to your hotel in Haifa.
Day 3: Saturday, September 27: Begin your day at Mt Carmel, where Elijah challenged the 400 prophets of Baal. You will then visit Caesarea, with a deep-sea harbor, an aqueduct, a hippodrome, and an amphitheater, built by Herod the Great and dedicated to Caesar Augustus. In the Jezreel Valley, experience the vast overlook of Megiddo, the foretold site of Armageddon. You will visit Haifa, Israel’s third largest city situated on a bay between the Mediterranean and Mount Carmel. Overnight in Haifa. Meeting room after dinner.
Day 4: Sunday, September 28: You will travel to the Sea of Galilee by way of Nazareth and Cana. Then travel to the Mount of Beatitudes overlooking the Sea of Galilee. You will visit Capernaum a city visited by Jesus and where He performed miracles. End the day with a trip to Yardenit, the Jordan River baptismal site. Overnight hotel in Galilee. Meeting room after dinner.
Day 5: Monday, September 29: Start your day with a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus walked to the disciples and calmed a storm. Visit Mishgav Am & see nearby IDF Base. Travel to Tel Dan, one of the most important sites for the archaeological and historical understanding of ancient Israel. See Banias, the site of ancient Caesarea Philippi, near the mouth of the Jordan, where Jesus asked His disciples who people said He was. Travel through the Golan Heights. Overnight hotel in Galilee. Meeting room after dinner.
Day 6: Tuesday, September 30: Travel the Jordan River Valley, visit to Qumran then ascend to Jerusalem. Experience the breathtaking view from the Mount of Olives, followed by a walk along the Palm Sunday Path to the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prayed prior to His capture and trial. Retire to your room at the hotel in Jerusalem where you will be staying over the next five nights. Tower of David Light Show.
Day 7: Wednesday, October 1:Emek Zurim for archaeological sifting, tour Yad Vashem Israel’s memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Then move on to the Israel Museum, which includes the Shrine of the Book and the Second Temple Model. Stop the bus for a view of the Knesset, the seat of Israel’s government.
Early dinner at 4:30 PM, evening of Yom Kippur.
Day 8: Thursday, October 2: YOM KIPPUR: Visit St. Anne’s Church and the Pools of Bethesda where Jesus healed a lame man who had waited 38 years beside the pool in John 5. Travel through the Old City of Jerusalem along the Way of the Cross and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Overnight at the hotel in Jerusalem.
Day 9: Friday, October 3: Start your day at the City of David and the 3D presentation, Hezekiah’s Tunnel, Western Wall Tunnels. free time for shopping. Overnight at the hotel in Jerusalem. Have dinner and spend Shabbat with a local Jewish family.
Day 10: Saturday, October 4: Journey to Masada a desert fortress overlooking the dead sea the setting of a Roman siege of the Sicarii rebels during the first Jewish-Roman war. See Ein Gedi where David composed many Psalms. End the day with a “float” in the Dead Sea. Overnight at the hotel in Jerusalem.
Day 11: Sunday, October 5: Tour of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, including the Cardo and the Herodian Mansion Ruins. End the day on the Southern Steps of the Temple. Garden Tomb for Communion. Overnight in Jerusalem.
Day 12: Monday, October 6: Flight and arrival home.
- Itinerary subject to change-
Lufthansa#455 25SEP San Francisco – Frankfurt 240pm – 1025am next day
Lufthansa#694 26SEP Frankfurt – Tel Aviv 200pm – 710pm
Lufthansa#691 06OCT Tel Aviv – Frankfurt 445am – 820am
Lufthansa#454 06OCT Frankfurt – San Francisco 1025am – 1240pm
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