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Israel
Tour Day 1(1/11-Thursday) Depart New Orleans
Day 6 (1/16-Tuesday) After an 8 AM visit to the Garden tomb, we will spend all day in Jerusalem. Some of the things we will visit will be the Arab Market, Damascus Gate, Kidron Valley, Western Wall, Moslem Quarter, Christian Quarter, Russia Church and the Temple Mount. This will be an extremely interesting day.
Day 8 (1/18-Thursday) Today we will visit Bethlehem in the morning and travel around the area visiting some of the significant sites including the Mount of Olives, the Jerusalem overlook, St. Peter in Gallicantu, Mt. Zion and other locations as time permits. One of the important activities today will be to discuss the city of Jerusalem and get a good sense of where things happened during the Davidic kingdom.
Day 10 (1/20-Saturday) We will depart Tel Aviv in the early a.m. and arrive at home in the early evening.
Hotels: Contact in Israel will be Tom Brimmer. (H) 011-972-2-676-0862; cell phone 011-972-052-874-285; 011-972-053-464-718
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Suggestions on preparation for your trip: I would suggest that you not take more than $300 cash for personal spending money and don’t use traveler’s checks. They are difficult to cash. I will make your initial currency exchange for $100 US for Israeli shekels. If you need more shekels during the trip, we will go by a moneychanger. Make sure that you bring a credit card that works on the Cirrus and/or the Plus networks so that you will be able to get money from ATMs if you need more cash. Some of the places that we visit will take VISA cards. We will visit a couple of places that will take a check. Israel currency is the shekel, currently about 4 shekels/dollar. Bring your AT&T, MCI, or Sprint card with you. The country code in Israel is 972. It’s a lot less expensive to dial direct, than it is to use the Israeli telephone system. The electrical system for Israel is 220. For specific things you will need a multi-voltage converter. Camcorders & Video-recorders often have the worldwide AC Adapter charger, so you will also want to check that. Bring all of the film (at least 15 rolls) that you want to use in Israel, with you. It is fairly expensive to buy film. If your film is below ISO400, you shouldn’t have any problem with the x-ray machine. There shouldn’t be any problem for your camcorder videotape. Also, the videotapes in Israel are very expensive, so I would not suggest buying any videotape in Israel. Make sure that you have a health insurance card in case of an accident. Make sure that you have evidence of health insurance. We will be traveling with NET. We will have all the necessary insurance on the vehicle. We will be in Israel for 8 nights. All of our activities will be casual and blue jeans or sweat pants will be adequate. I generally take with me several tee-shirts, a light jacket, rain slick, a sweatshirt, two or three additional pair of slacks, lots of socks, and a travel vest. I will layer with the travel vest. A couple of the days will be windy and cold, so bring a coat. You need to be sure that you’re shoes are very comfortable. Bring at least one change of shoes. Put all of your stuff in one bag to check thru to Tel Aviv. Hand carry a bag with a change of underwear, some light snacks, your camera, and any other carrying things that you want to take. You will need a wallet that you can keep next to your body for your passport, driver’s license, credit card and cash. I would suggest either a waist or neck wallet. Remember, pack light and have necessary stuff in a carry-on bag. Also, bring any medications that you need and include Imodium and aspirin. Be sure to bring the Bible you use all the time. You will want to look up verses at various sites. Also, bring a notebook so that you can keep a journal. Remember to use the PRAYER GUIDE as you prepare for your trip. BLESS YOU ON YOUR PREPARATION. YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AFTER YOU VISIT ISRAEL, THE LAND OF THE BIBLE.
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Day
2 (1/12-Friday) Depart Zurich at 9:55A and arrive Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport, at
2:40 pm where we will meet Tom Brimmer, and our NET bus. We will drive thru
the citrus groves of Sharon Plain thru the Wadi Milek, cross the Jezreel Valley and up the
Jordan Valley to overnight at Ein Gev on the Eastern Shore of the Sea of
Galilee. We will spend three nights at the Kibbutz Ein Gev. We encourage
everyone to rise early on Saturday morning to greet the dawn on the shores of the Sea of
Galilee. This will be a once in a lifetime experience for most people and we will
get to spend three nights on the Sea of Galilee. 
Day
3(1/13-Saturday) Israeli breakfast each day. You will find the breakfast meal
interesting and delicious. We will have a devotional on the bus shortly after we
depart our hotel at 8:00 a.m. Tour begins at Kibbutz En Gev. We will make a
quick stop at Kursi where Jesus healed the domoniac. Then continue our tour with a
boat trip across the Galilee to Nof Ginosar. We will see a fishing boat like Peter
would have used from the time of Jesus. We will visit Tabgha, Primacy of Peter,
Capernaum, Chorazim and Mount of the Beatitudes. We will travel north and see
ancient Hazor, visit Caesarea Phillippi and weather and time permitting travel up Mount
Hermon to visit Nimrod Fortress. We will complete our day by crossing the Golon and
traveling back down to Ein Gev where we will overnight.
Day
4 (1/14-Sunday) We will depart En Gev at 8:00A and journey across the Galilee visiting
Cana of Galilee, Nazareth, and the ancient city of Sepphoris. Then we will journey
to the Mediterranean Coast and visit Rosh HaNikra, the Lebanon border and completing our
tour day at the port city of Akko. We will travel back to En Gev for our evening
meal. 
Day 5 (1/15-Monday)We will have our bags down for
loading on the bus at 7am, breakfast and departure at 7:45am. We will travel to down the
Jordan Valley to Bet Shean where we will visit that ancient Roman and Philistine
City. When we depart Bet Shean we will visit Megiddo, and Mount Carmel
where Elijah slew the prophets of Baal. We will have lunch on Mt. Carmel at a local
restaurant. Caesarea on the coast will be our next stop. Then we will travel
down to Jericho and visit where Joshua and the tribe of Israel entered the Promised
Land. 
When we depart Jericho we will
travel down to Qumran then back to the Old Roman Road to Jerusalem from Jericho and arrive
in Jerusalem at 6:30pm. We will check into the St. George's Cathedral Guesthouse
where we will have our evening meal and spend our evenings for the remainder of the trip.
Day 7 (1/17)-Wednesday) Today we will visit Masada, Tel Arad, and Beer Sheva.
We will journey back to Jerusalem on the Kiryat-Gat to Jerusalem highway. We
will turn right at Kiryat-Gat and travel up the ancient road past Lachish, see where David
slew Goliath and Samson wooed Delilah. 
Day 9
(1/19-Friday) We will be visiting the Jewish Quarter, several archaeological digs and the
Burnt House. The afternoon will be free for revisiting a place that we hurried past
or for shopping and collecting the few things that you would like to bring back
home. 
