A record year of tourism commences as Israel observes its 20 years of sovereignty
. . . The Jewish News dedicates this special section as a guide to tourists who are
planning to observe the progress made by the Jewish State and the speedy rebuilding
of Israel's nationhood.
2I-Day Sample Israel Itinerary
FIRST DAY: Tel Aviv
Morning: Along the sea shore of
Old Jaffa (walking tour of Jaffa,
visit the Jaffa Museum), Holon,
Bat Yam (visit a Shikun: housing
development), Shalom Building Ob-
servatory. Afternoon: Tour center
Si city, including modern Tel Aviv
and its municipal and cultural
buildings. Overnight: Tel Aviv.
SECOND DAY: Tel Aviv
Morning: Tour of North Tel Aviv,
Museum Center including Glass
Museum, Science and Technology
Museum, Folklore Museum; Ramat
Aviv, Fair Grounds, Ramat Gan,
Givatayim. Afternoon: Free. Sug-
gested Night Tour: Mann Auditor-
ium, Habimah Theater, Dizengoff
Street, Jaffa (the clock tower
square, visit galleries and the
Omar Kayam nightclub). Over-
night: Tel Aviv,
Things Ao see and do in Tel Aviv
and surroundings: Bar Ilan Uni-
versity, sailing on the Yarkon
River, Maccabea Village, Zoo,
Great Synagogue.
NINTH DAY: Masada and Ein
Gedi
Bersheba, Arad (tour city), Ma-
sada (visit antiquities), Sodom, Ein
Bokek (swimming possible), Ein
Gedi (visit David's Pools). Return
to Beersheba via Dimona. Over-
night: Beersheba.
NOTE: It is possible to take a
flying tour of Sinai. On the ninth
day, go to Tel Aviv from Beer-
sheba. Overnight in Tel Aviv. On
the following morning, fly from
Tel Aviv over SinaL On the return
from Sinai, the-light lands in Eilat
for lunch a tour of that city and
bathing. Overnight in Eilat and the
following day return to Beersheba
by bus after touring the southern
Negev.
TENTH DAY: Beersheba and Eilat
Beersheba, Kefar Yeruham, Sede
Baker, Ein Avdat (visit desert
spring), Avad Antiquities, Yotvata,
Timna Copper Mines, Solomon's
Pillars, Eilat. Overnight: Eilat.
FOURTEENTH DAY:
Caesarea and Haifa
Tel Aviv, Hertzelia, Netanya,
Caesarea (visit Crusader city,
Roman Theater and aqueduct),
Ramat Hanadiv (visit Rothschild
Gardens and Tomb), Zichron
Ya'akov, EM Hod Artist's Village
(visit). Overnight: Haifa.
TWENTIETH DAY:
Sea of Galilee, Belt She'an
Tiberias to Ein Gev (by boat),
Degania (visit), Afikim (visit),
Beit Shean (visit Roman amphi-
theatre), Belt Alpha (ancient mo-
saic), Em Hashlosha (bathing pos-
sible), Afula, pass Mt. Tabor and
return to Tiberias. Overnight: Ti-
berias.
TWENTY-FIRST DAY-:
Nazareth, Plain of Sharon
Morning: Free. Afternoon: Kefar
Kanna, Nazareth (visit churches),
return to Tel Aviv via the Plain of
Sharon. Overnight: Tel Aviv.
Next to ingratitude, the most
painful thing to bear is gratitude.
—Hosea Ballou.
FIFTEENTH DAY: Haifa
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Morning: Tour of the City; Eli- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
jah's Cave, Carmelite Monastery,
Bahai Gardens, Panorama Street,
Technion-Israel Institute of Tech-
nology. Afternoon: Ahuza, Mt.
Carmel (visit Druze villages), Yo-
kneam, Belt Shearim (tour metro-
polis), return to Haifa. Overnight:
Haifa.
Israel this winter is something extra special.;
Further places of interest in
The weather is balmy, resort-type weather. Perfect walk.-
Haifa: Gan Ha'em, Stella Maris
cog weather in the Old -City of Jerusalem. Perfect driving
Japanese Museum, Museum of the
hieatber along the historic coastal road in the NortherA
Sea, Rothschild Community Cen-
ter, Carmel Forests.
perfect excursion weatherdowdiat ifielowest point —a
arth, the Dead Sea. Or on the heights of Mt. Taboit7
SIXTEENTH DAY: Acre, Rosh
or at nearby Megiddo, where Solon toll once held sugli
Hanikra, Upper Galilee.
Mier court.,,
Haifa, Acre (tour the city, for-
tress, walls, Arab Khan, Jazzar
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krtother impartitiii- thirciTo - reme rt
Mosque). Nahariya, Rosh Hanikra
"flitter holiday is that it can be yeryleioliotnical4....„
(ride the tram), Hanita, Adamit,
Example: nine &lei:days and litettrtn—tsrael,
Sasa. Return to Haifa. Overnight:
top hotel accommodations (meals not included), trans*
Haifa.
fors, plus sightseeing, for 5499* including airfare. Could
you do better in Miami?
SEVENTEENTH DAY:
Example: the "Israel Freewheeler" - Tour. Thil one-
Haifa, Safed
udes roundtrip flight, accommodafiont at a guest house
Morning: Free. Afternoon: Haifa,
r 9 nights, Ford Escort U-drive sedan for 9 days with
Acre, Mt. Miron (visit), Safed (visit
the Fortress Gardens, Artists'
meters
$444 .t ree (extra _mileage at 8% per knONi
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Quarter, Ari Synagogue). Over-
night: Safed.
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for tree-planting in the nearby for-
when ticket,^ .
est.
Example: 3 week FlY.6ricl Drhie ioundtic
flight, Simca 1000 U-drive car with 1000 free kilometers;
EIGHTEENTH DAY:
accommodations
for 20 nights at guest house. $5604
Upper Galilee
Safed, Bar-Am (visit remains of
Example: 9 day Israel Vacation Includes roundtrip flight;
old synagogue), Yesha Fortress
deluxe and first class hotels, breakfasts, transfers,/
Observation Point, Menara, Tel
days of sightseeing. $5194 -
Hai (visit), Horsbat Tal (visit),
Example: 15 day Israel Tour "Licruirei rOundtep ffiA
Tel Dan (visit), Hula Preserve
13 nights at deluxe and first class hotels, Israeli break
(boat ride), Ayelet Hashahar (visit
fasts throughout, plus dinifer in Haifa. Also sightseeing
kibutz). Overnight: Ayelet Has-
Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem. Also excursions to
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upper and Lower Galilee, the Negev, the Dead Secs '
Hebron and Bethlehem . $6.14
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NINETEENTH DAY:
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Golan Heights, Capernaum
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based on Winter group fares (groups of 1424 es .so).
Ayelet Hashahar, Baniyas (source
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(foothills of Mt. Hermon). Druze
Villages, Kunetra, Bnot Ya'akov
Bridge. Mt. of the Beatitudes,
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Capernaum (visit). Tabha (visit
site of the miracle of the loaves
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Tiberias.
ELEVENTH DAY: Eilat
Morning: Tour of the City, bath-
ing, free time. Afternoon: Return
THIRD DAY: Jerusalem
to Beersheba. Overnight: Beer-
Morning : Tel Aviv, Ramie, Sha'ar sheba.
Hagai, Jerusalem (Mt. Herzl,
Things to see and do in Eilat:
Yad Vashem-Holocaust Memorial). Gem-polishing factories, Glass-bot-
Afternoon: Walking tour of the Old tom boat tour, Jeep tours of
City (David's Tower, Jewish Quar- Negev, Boat tour to Coral Island,
ter, Western Wall, Temple Mount, Skin Diving.
Via Dolorosa, Church of the Holy
Sepulchre.) Overnight: Jerusalem. TWELFTH DAY: Gaza Strip, North
Sinai-Ashkelon.
Beersheba, Ofakim, Nir Yitzhak,
FOURTH DAY: Jerusalem
Morning: Through Meah Shearim Rafiah, El Arish (tour of city and
and Sheik Jerah Quarters to Mt. date palm groves), Gaza (tour of
Scopus. (Visit University and Am- city and harbor), Yad Mordechai
phitheater). Mt. of Olives (view (tour of kibutz), Ashkelon tour
of Jerusalem), Gethsemane (visit), park and visit antiquities (bathing
Absalom's Tomb, Zecharia's Tomb, possible). Overnight: Ashkelon.
Gihon Spring, Rockefeller Museum
(visit). Afternoon: Free. Over- THIRTEENTH DAY:
Ashkelon and Rehovot
night: Jerusalem,
Ashkelon, Heletz Oil Fields, Lake
Zohar, Yoav Fortress, Negba
FIFTH DAY: Jerusalem, Bethle-
(visit), Ashdod (tour city and view
hem, Hebron
Morning: Kennedy Memorial harbor), Rehovot (visit to Weiz-
(visit), Hadassah-Hebrew Univer- mann Memorial and Institute),
sity Medical Center (Chagal Win- Rishon LeZion (visit winery). Over-
dows), view scale model of Ancient night: Tel Aviv.
Jerusalem, the Knesset (Parlia-
ment), Hebrew University (visit).
Afternoon: Rachel's Tomb (visit),
Bethlehem (visit Church of the
Nativity), Solomon's Pools, Kibutz
Etzion, Hebron (visit Cave of the
Patriarchs and Abraham's Oak).
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Return to Jerusalem. Ovornight:
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SIXTH DAY: Jerusalem
Morning: Free. Afternoon: Mt.
Zion (visit David's Tomb, Room-of
the last Supper and Dormintion
Abbey), Israel Museum (Shrine of
the Book, Sculpture Garden and
Museum). Overnight: Jerusalem.
SEVENTH DAY: Jerusalem
Additional Places of Interest in
Jerusalem and Surroundings: Chief
Rabbinate, Sanhedrin Tombs, Jeru-
salem Forest, International Culture
Center for Youth, Ramat Rahel
Excavations, St, Ann Church and
Excavations, Garden Tomb, Belt
Sala Observation Point, U.N. Head-
• quarters, Police School, Ammuni-
tion Hill, Nebi Samuel.
EIGHTH DAY: Jerusalem and
Beersheba
Ein Kerem (visit the Church of
John the Baptist), Valley of Elah,
Belt Gubrin, Kiryat Gat (tour
City), Beersheba (tour city). Over-
night: Beersheba. Places to see in
Beersheba: Negev Museum, New
COmmercial Center, Municipal Au-
ditorium, Beersheba Hospital, In-
stitute of Arid Zone Research,
Abraham's Well, Bedouin Market
(Thursday mornings.)
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