Israel Summary - You can read more about each day on separate additional posts
Day 1, June 28, 2007, Thursday: Highlights tour:
Old City of Jerusalem, Western & Wailing Wall
Day 2, June 29, 2007, Friday: Yad La’Shiryon, Latrun, Memorial site and the Armored Corps museum in Latrun and the Bet Guvrin-Maresha National Park with the caves of Tel Maresha showing houses, commerce and burial
Day 3, June 30, 2007, Saturday: Qumran, site of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and then Masada National Park
Day 4, July 1, 2007, Sunday: The Western Wall Tunnels, under the Arab Quarter; the Herodian Quarter, The Wohl Museum of Archeology; and the Burnt House of Kathros
Day 5, July 2, 2007, Monday: Bar Mitzvahs at the Wailing Wall and then Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Day 6, July 3, 2007, Tuesday: Bet She’an National Park, a settlement that started 7,000 years ago and went through various populations including Egyptian, Roman, Jewish and Christian; then Bet Alpha National Park and the site of a Synagogue dating back to 517 B.C.
Day 7, July 4, 2007, Wednesday: The Golan Heights; Syrian border; Drews village; Mount Mental; the Elroma Kibbutz where we saw actual footage of the tank battle that took place there in 1973 when Syria invaded Israel on Yom Kippur
Day 8, July 5, 2007, Thursday: Metula, the most northern city in Israel and next to the Lebanon border; the Bet Ha Shomer cemetery; Tzfat, the center for Kabala studies; and Synagogues established by Greek Jews
Day 9, July 6, 2007, Friday: Haifa; the Baha’I Temple; Caesarea National Park; Latania to visit Susie and Emanuel Friedlander; and arrived in Tel Aviv
Day 10, July 7, 2007, Saturday: Tel Aviv; Gordon Beach for the day
Day 11, July 8, 2007, Sunday: Tel Aviv; Want go to home now, no guide for 2 days; turned in the rental car; flea market; Old City of Yaffo
Day 12, July 9, 2007, Monday: Carmel open-air flea and food market; rest before leaving on Tuesday for Chicago.
Day 13, July 10, 2007, Tuesday: travel day bad dream (versus nightmare); 30+ hours from Tel Aviv to Chicago to arrive by midnight on the same day
Day 14, July 11, 2007, Wednesday: Arrive in Chicago around 10 minutes after midnight and head to the Marriott in Downtown
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