Pilgrimage to the Holyland

Tel Aviv

Tuesday Arrive Ben Gurion Airport, meet our Israeli staff and, after assistance, transfer to Tel Aviv or Netanya for overnight.

Wednesday Leave Tel Aviv or Netanya, visit Caesarea, Roman capital at the time of Pontius Pilate, where St. Paul was imprisoned for two years.  Continue to Megiddo, the chariot city of King Solomon overlooking the valley of Armageddon, then to Mt. Carmel.  Visit the Stella

Caesarea

Haifa - Bahai

Maris Monastery, admire the spectacular bay of Haifa.  Drive to Nazareth, see Mary's Well, visit the Basilica of the Annunciation and Joseph's Workshop, then to Cana, site of Jesus' first miracle.  Continue to hotel in Tiberias, or to the Upper Galilee to a Kibbutz Inn, for overnight.

Nazareth

Thursday Drive to Tabgha to see the Chapel of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, then to the Mt. of Beatitudes, site of the Sermon on the Mount, and on to Capernaum, cursed by Jesus together with Korazim for mocking Him, with the home of Peter and the synagogue where Jesus preached. Boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, lunch of St. Peter's Fish, then to Tiberias on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.  Return to the hotel or to the Kibbutz Inn for overnight.

Mt. of Beatitudes

Capernaum

Friday Drive to Banias (Caesarea Philippi), site of the Great Commission, on the Golan Heights, then to Mt. Tabor and the Monastery of the Transfiguration, via Bet She'an and its impressive Roman ruins, down the Jordan Valley (the route taken by Jesus to Jerusalem), to Jericho.  View the Mt. of Temptation, then drive up to Jerusalem on the Old Jericho Road, by the Inn of the Good Samaritan.  Finally, enter the Holy City and drive to the Hotel in West Jerusalem.

Saturday See Ein Kerem, birthplace of John the Baptist, the model of Herodian Jerusalem, Yad Va'- Shem Memorial, the Valley of the Cross, by the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament), the Israel Museum with the Shrine of the Book housing the Dead Sea Scrolls, then to Mt. Zion.  Visit the Dormition Abbey and Room of the Last Supper, the Church St. Peter in Gallicantu built over the cell which held Jesus.

Model of Herodian Jerusalem

Mt. Zion

Sunday Via Mt. Scopus to the Mt. of Olives, Garden of Gethsem- ane in which Jesus had His agonizing vigil, enter the Old City through St. Stephen's Gate, see the Lithos- tratos (Judgment Hall of Pontius Pilate), Ecce Homo Arch, walk on the Via Dolorosa with the Stations of the Cross, to the Church of the Holy

Old City

Mt. of Olives

Sepulchre. Visit the Temple area with the mosques and the Western Wall, then drive to Bethlehem to visit the Church of the Nativity and linger in Manger Square. Back to Jerusalem.

Dome of the Rock

Monday Morning transfer to Ben Gurion Airport for departure.  Shalom !

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