Tours for OPEN MACCABIAH
OPEN DIVISION FULL-DAY TOURS
18 . THE JUDEAN DESERT v1 – LIKE NOWHERE ELSE ON THE PLANET
See how Israel Greens the Desert at KKL-JNF Joe Alon Regional Studies Center in YAHAR FOREST / Selfie from BELOW SEA LEVEL at the Lowest Place on Earth / RIDE A CAMEL @ NOKDIM VILLAGE / Traditional BEDOUIN Hospitality& Hafla (Feast) / CABLE CAR up to awesome MASADA, and (weather-permitting) on foot down the Roman Ramp / FLOAT on the DEAD SEA – merciless sun, hot & dry air, rocky & stony ground, so YOU SHOULD BRING:SUNGLASSES / CAP or other light head cover / SUN LOTION, preferably SUN BLOCK / WALKING SHOES &/or SANDALS (flip-flops OK only at Dead Sea shore / SWIMSUIT & BATHING TOWEL
19. THE JUDEAN DESERT v2 – WHERE THERE'S WATER, THERE'S LIFE
Visit EIN GEDI Nature Reserve, wade the cool river waters / Lunch at EIN GEDI SPA / FLOAT on DEAD SEA water and indulge your skin with a healthy MUD BATH / CABLE CAR up to MASADA, and down by Cable Car / View over the POTASH Works that produce phosphates to fertilize fields where your vegetables grow and magnesium for the alloys in your car – merciless sun, hot & dry air, rocky & stony ground, so YOU SHOULD BRING: SUNGLASSES / CAP or other appropriate head cover / SUN LOTION, preferably SUN BLOCK / WALKING SHOES &/or sturdy SANDALS (flip-flops OK only at Dead Sea shore) /SWIMSUIT& BATHING TOWEL
20.THE GALILEE PANHANDLE & RAFTING DOWN THE JORDAN
Travel up the Great North Road to visit historic TEL HAI Courtyard – Zionist heroism and settlement in the Upper Galilee Panhandle / Lunch at McDonald's in KIRYAT SHMONA / Tour TEL DAN NATURE RESERVE, combine a little archeology amidst rushing river waters, then raft down the Jordan; you'll be soaked, so YOU SHOULD BRING:A Change of CLOTHING, including underwear / SUNGLASSES / CAP / SUN LOTION / WALKING SHOES &/or sturdy SANDALS suitable for wading river waters / Optional: TOWEL
21. THE FIRST HEBREW CITY
Visit the place where David Ben Gurion declared ISRAEL'S INDEPENDENCE in 1948 / Tour NEVE TZEDEK, first Hebrew neighborhood in 1909 of what became Tel Aviv / Authentic Jaffa restaurant for lunch / Browse through streets and alleys of Jaffa FLEA MARKET / Spectacular bird's eye view over the city from the 51st Floor in Azrieli Mall / Tour ends on the boardwalk promenade of TEL AVIV OLD PORT. YOU SHOULD BRING: SUNGLASSES / CAP / WALKING SHOES
22. IF I FORGET THEE, O JERUSALEM
Tour themed around 'National Memory of the Jewish People' / Mount Herzl, the place of National Remembrance / On the western slopes, the overwhelming pathos of the Holocaust at YAD VASHEM / Up the pathway on foot to the summit, the burial place of Theodor HERZL, many national leaders, and the sprawling National Military Cemetery / Lunch at McDonald's in beautiful BEIT HAKEREM / Next, Archeology: extraordinary excavations at the City of David, includes a wet walk through the TUNNEL OF SILOAM built 2,800 years ago / Up to the Kotel / YOU SHOULD BRING:WALKING SHOES or sturdy SANDALS suitable for a wet walk / Recommended: SUNGLASSES & CAP
23. 3500 YEARS IN JERUSALEM
The most magnificent view over this amazing city from the PHASAEL TOWER in the Citadel / Promenade along 500 year-old OLD CITY WALLS, down medieval alleys to the KOTEL / exit through Dung Gate to Lunch at McDonald's BEN YEHUDA / Multi-sensory TIME ELEVATOR experience journey through the ages of Jerusalem / Chill out in JAFFA ROAD pedestrian mall shops and cafes YOU SHOULD BRING:WALKING SHOES or sturdy SANDALS
24.BAR MITZVA DAY IN JERUSALEM
Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Kotel / Up to the Phasael Tower in the Citadel for the most magnificent views over this amazing city / Promenade along the 500 year-old Wall of the Old City, down medieval alleys, and exit through Dung Gate / Lunch at McDonald's BEN YEHUDA / Multi-sensory TIME ELEVATOR experience journey through the ages of Jerusalem / Chill out in JAFFA ROAD pedestrian mall shops and cafes YOU SHOULD BRING:WALKING SHOES or sturdy SANDALS.
ONLY TWO OPPORTUNITIES: THURSDAY JULY 13TH AND MONDAY JULY 17TH (Monday depending on departure flights)
25.CRUSADERS, MARKETS & SEA CAVES
SEA CRUISE from Haifa to Akko (Acre) / Walk along the crenellated seawalls of the Old City / Visit the KNIGHTS' HALLS / take in authentic sights, sounds & fragrant tastes in the colorful souk (market) / Cable Car to explore passageways cut by Mediterranean waves in the white rock sea cliffs of ROSH HANIKRA
OPEN DIVISION ½-DAY TOURS
26.TLV -MIRACLES ON THE MEDITERRANEAN
Visit the place on Rothschild Boulevard where David Ben Gurion declared ISRAEL'S INDEPENDENCE in 1948 / Tour NEVE TZEDEK, the first Hebrew neighborhood, built in 1909 / SEGWAY along the broad seashore promenade YOU SHOULD BRING:SUNGLASSES / WALKING SHOES
27. TEL AVIV: MARKETS & SHOPPER'S HEAVEN
Quintessential Tel Aviv: Breathtaking 51ST FLOOR VIEW over Jaffa-Tel Aviv from Azrieli Towers / Visit nearby & trendy SARONA / from RABIN SQUARE where our Prime Minister was assassinated in 1995, on through the WHITE CITY into CARMEL MARKET, and browse NAHALAT BINYAMIN Arts & Crafts fair.
28. JONAH, THE WHALE AND ANCIENT JAFFA
From the famous CLOCK TOWER of Sultan Abdul Hamid II ("Abdul the Damned"), up RUSLAN Blvd. to the top of Tel Yaffo and a Sound & Light Show featuring an amazing cast of characters: Jonah & the Whale, Andromeda's Rock and the original Fiddler on the Roof / Wend your way through the Zodiac Alleys and on down to JAFFA FISHERMAN's PORT / Ends at the FLEA MARKET bric-a-brac & coffee shops
29. NAHLA'OT AND BARON MONTEFIORE'S TASTING TOUR
First: Visit the fabled restored neighborhood in the City center, cradle of legendary local family clans in the modern era / Then: Your nose will lead you across the road into a great tasting tour of special food stalls in MAHANE YEHUDA, including Moroccan seegars, Egyptian falafel, really creamy humus & tahina, halvah to die for, plus herbal remedies that cure health issues you didn't even know you have
30. THE OLD CITY & THE KOTEL BY NIGHT
After dinner at the hotel: A short walk to PASAEL TOWER to see the colors of twilight fall over the City around 19:30 PM / Afterwards we take in the spectacular DAVID'S TOWER Music & Virtual Reality night show and continue down the Wall Promenade to the KOTEL
31. THE JEWISH QUARTER
CITY OF DAVID Excavations/ enter the HASMONEAN TUNNEL which brought water to Jerusalem 20 centuries ago/ Ascend to DAVIDSON CENTER and the beautiful archeological park with artifacts from the later periods / finally, we're at the KOTEL
32. SUNNY SHABBAT ON FOOT IN TEL AVIV
From the Old Port along the Tel Aviv PROMENADE in the sunshine and (we hope) a cooling sea breeze, into the romantic streets of the Hebrew city's original 1909 NEVE TZEDEK neighborhood, ending at HA'TAHANA, the 1892 railway station built during Ottoman Turkish, now a leisure complex of boutique stores, pubs and restaurants
33. 2-HOUR SHABBAT WALKING TOURS IN JERUSALEM
Route A: DAN Jerusalem Hotel to AMMUNITION HILL
Route B: DAN PANORAMA Hotel to MISHKENOT SHA'ANANIM
Route C: RAMADA Hotel to KIRYAT HA'MEMSHALA
34. JULY 15 NIGHT SPECIAL TO JERUSALEM & ICE HOCKEY FINALS
Will start on the ICE HOCKEY FINALS at PAYIS ARENA
We will continue to TIME ELEVATOR Sound & Light show / Into the Old City via Jaffa Gate, ascend the WALLS and walk as far as Zion Gate / through the Jewish Quarter's medieval alleyways and sites to the KOTEL / If time permits, we visit NAHALAT SHIVA & JAFFA PEDESTRIAN MALL .
35. HAIFA AND THE DRUZE
Tour observation/orientation on Louis Promenade / Follow the Templars in the German Colony / Meet the Druze (or Al-Muwahiddun), the monotheist ethnicity who believe in reincarnation and are engaged in a 'pact for life, a pact of blood' with the Jewish State
36. HAIFA AND THE BELIEVERS
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Monastery at STELLA MARIS / KHALIFA MAHMOOD Mosque of the Ahmadiyya sect in Kababir / Tour Wadi Nisnas / we end at KASTRA ART, Recreation & Shopping Center, a ravishing architectonic structure decorated with Arik Brauer's fantastical painted-tile mosaic – the world's largest – of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden, and other scenes from the Bible
37. THE WALLS OF WADI SALIB
The 'Squatter Neighborhood' of ruins and rundown buildings in downtown Haifa adjacent to Wadi Nisnas, long slated for redevelopment / 66 years ago, scene of a bloody riot and social protest / nowadays, Mecca for local history researchers, Magnet for real estate developers home to artists & architects, and a spectacular profusion of Graffiti reflecting its character as a mixed Arab-Jewish zone of coexistence
38. Shabat , 2 hours walking tours in Tel Aviv& jaffa
39. Netanya-shabat 2 hours walking tour
