Dinner: In the hotel dining room, enjoy a welcome buffet dinner. Soft drinks, wine, and beer are available for purchase.

Evening: Orientation: The Group Leader will greet everyone with a warm welcome and lead introductions. We will review the up-to-date program schedule and any changes, discuss roles and responsibilities, logistics, safety guidelines, emergency procedures, and answer any questions you may have. Free time is reserved for your personal independent exploration. Please note that program activities, schedules, and personnel may need to change due to local circumstances. In the event of changes, we will alert you as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

Activity note: Unavoidable stairs in the City of David and walking on cobble stones.

Breakfast: At the hotel, enjoy a plentiful dairy buffet complete with fruit, fresh vegetables, salads, cereals, fresh breads, cheeses, eggs, and more. Juice, water, coffee and tea are included

Morning: Depart the hotel by coach with your site coordinator and group leader to the Haas Promenade, where we will begin the day overlooking a panoramic view of the Old City of Jerusalem. Great photo opportunity. We will then board the coach for a short drive to the City of David to view the latest excavations of what may have been King David’s Palace, Area G (Israelite house), and more. With your expert site coordinator you will learn how and why Jerusalem became the capitol city of the Israeli people and focus on King David as a flawed, yet beloved, leader.

Lunch: Enjoy a buffet lunch in the home of local residents of the City of David. Menu includes salads, breads, main course, side dishes, soft drinks, and tea & coffee.

Afternoon: We will continue on foot to the Southern Wall Excavations at the Jerusalem Archaeological Park. Discuss the "Centrality of the Temple in Israelite and Jewish Religion" and exploration of the site.

Dinner: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Evening: Free Time. Take this opportunity for personal independent exploration to see and do what interests you most in Jerusalem. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Activity note: Unavoidable stairs in the Christian Quarter and walking on cobble stones.

Breakfast: At the hotel, enjoy a plentiful dairy buffet complete with fruit, fresh vegetables, salads, cereals, fresh breads, cheeses, eggs, and more. Juice, water, coffee and tea are included.

Morning: Depart the hotel by coach with your group leader and site coordinator for Mt. Zion in the Old City. Trace the development of Christianity with an on-site lecture "In the Footsteps of Jesus in Jerusalem". Discuss the layering of sanctity of religious sites as you visit the Coenaculum ("Last Supper Room" and traditional Tomb of David. We will then continue on foot through Jaffa Gate to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditional site of the Crucifixion and burial place of Jesus. Your site coordinator will explain the history of the Crusader-era church, which encompasses the last 5 "Stations of the Cross (Via Dolorosa)", Golgotha (Calvary), the Stone of the Unction, and the tomb itself.

Lunch: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Afternoon: Free Time. Take this opportunity for personal independent exploration to see and do what interests you most in Jerusalem. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Dinner: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Evening: Free Time. Take this opportunity for personal independent exploration to see and do what interests you most in Jerusalem. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Activity note: The Dead Sea region can be warmer than Jerusalem and much drier.

Breakfast: At the hotel, enjoy a plentiful dairy buffet complete with fruit, fresh vegetables, salads, cereals, fresh breads, cheeses, eggs, and more. Juice, water, coffee and tea are included.

Morning: Depart the hotel with your group leader and site coordinator to the Dead Sea Region, lowest point on earth. Ascend the mountain fortress of Masada by cable car to explore this UNESCO World Heritage Site. Explore the remains of Herod's oppulent palaces, bath house complex, and fortifications lter used by the Jewish Revel's fleeing the Roman Army after the destruction of Jerusalem during the Great Revolt of 70CE. Descend by cable-car.

Lunch: Lunch in the food court of the Masada visitor's center.

Afternoon: Travel by coach to a private beach on the shores of the Dead Sea. Float in the therapeutic and buoyant water. En route to Jerusalem, stop in the town of Maaleh Adumim for a home hospitality program with Ethiopian Jewish immigrants to hear the remarkable stories of their long trek from Africa to Israel.

Dinner: In the hotel dining room, enjoy a buffet dinner. Soft drinks, wine, and beer are available for purchase.

Evening: At leisure.

Breakfast: At the hotel, enjoy a plentiful dairy buffet complete with fruit, fresh vegetables, salads, cereals, fresh breads, cheeses, eggs, and more. Juice, water, coffee and tea are included.

Morning: Travel by coach with your group leader and site coordinator to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Complex. Guided visit with your site coordinator through the historical museum, sculpture garden, Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations, and Children's Memorial.

Lunch: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Afternoon: Free Time. Take this opportunity for personal independent exploration to see and do what interests you most in Jerusalem. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Dinner: At the hotel, enjoy a festive Sabbath dinner, which includes soup, breads, salads, mains, sides, desserts. Water and tea are included. Soft drinks, wine, and beer are available for purchase.

Evening: Travel by coach to the Western Wall where we will join thousands of Jews and visitors from around the world to welcome the Jewish Sabbath. Return to hotel by coach or choose to walk back with your Group Lader to enjoy the atmosphere of the Old City on Friday night.

Breakfast: At the hotel, enjoy a plentiful dairy buffet complete with fruit, fresh vegetables, salads, cereals, fresh breads, cheeses, eggs, and more. Juice, water, coffee and tea are included. Some hot menu items are not available on the Sabbath due to kosher restrictions.

Morning: Free Time. Take this opportunity for personal independent exploration to see and do what interests you most in Jerusalem. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Lunch: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Afternoon: Free Time. Take this opportunity for personal independent exploration to see and do what interests you most in Jerusalem. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Dinner: In the hotel dining room, enjoy a buffet dinner. Soft drinks, wine, and beer are available for purchase.

Evening: Depart the hotel with your Group Leader for the Tower of David "Night Spectacular" . This impressive light-and-sound show is displayed on walls under the Tower of David. Moving images from 20 projectors trace the dramatic history of Jerusalem from the time of Israelite kings to the modern era. The cast of historical characters includes King David, Romans, monks, Mohammed, Crusaders, Turks, and all the rest, accompanied by a lush musical score. Bring a sweater since it can be cool in Jerusalem at night.

Breakfast: At the hotel, enjoy a plentiful dairy buffet complete with fruit, fresh vegetables, salads, cereals, fresh breads, cheeses, eggs, and more. Juice, water, coffee and tea are included.

Morning: Check-out and depart hotel with Group Leader and Site Coordinator. Travel by coach north along the Jordan River Valley to Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu. Meet kibbutz members to learn the history of this religious kibbutz. Then tour the organic fields and "bug factory" to learn how Sde Eliyahu was a leader in the "Green Revolution" in Israel and abroad.

Lunch: Enjoy a dairy lunch in the Kibbutz Cafe which serves locally grown organic products. Menu includes sandwiches, salads, pastas, and quiches. Soft drinks, teas, and coffee.

Afternoon: Travel to nearby Bet She'an to explore the impressive ruins with your site coordinator. Walk through this ancient Roman city, which was once head of the Decapolis and see the ancient theater, odeon, temples, bath houses and more. Then continue to Tiberias to enjoy a boat ride on the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).

Dinner: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. Tiberias is known for its restaurants that serve St. Peter's fish (tilapia). The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Evening: Evening at leisure to stroll along the Promenade of Tiberias which runs along the pier of the Kinneret.

Breakfast: At the hotel, enjoy a plentiful dairy buffet complete with fruit, fresh vegetables, salads, cereals, fresh breads, cheeses, eggs, and more. Juice, water, coffee and tea are included.

Morning: Check-out and depart hotel with your group leader and site coordinator. Ascend the Golan Heights by coach. Strategic briefing by former IDF officer along Israel's northern border with Syria.

Lunch: Lunch break in the town of Katzrin.

Afternoon: We continue by coach to the Lower Galilee and Kibbutz Ein Harod. Docent tour of the Ein Harod art museum which was founed in the 1930s and now boasts more than 16000 works of art. Then continue by coach to the cosmpolitan city of Tel Aviv, situated on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

Dinner: In the hotel dining room, enjoy a buffet dinner. Soft drinks, wine, and beer are available for purchase.

Evening: Lecture by a political analyst, "Perspectives on the Peace Process 1".

Breakfast: At the hotel, enjoy a plentiful dairy buffet complete with fruit, fresh vegetables, salads, cereals, fresh breads, cheeses, eggs, and more. Juice, water, coffee and tea are included.

Morning: Depart the hotel with the group leader and site coordinator and travel by coach to Independence Hall, where David Ben Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Delve into the decisions and dilemmas faced by Ben Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, regarding the declaration. Independence Hall is located in what was the house of Tel Aviv's first mayor and then turned into Tel Aviv's first art museum. Then we head to the Nahalat Binyamin neighborhood for the weekly arts & crafts fair featuring local artisans.

Lunch: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Afternoon: Free Time. Take this opportunity for personal independent exploration to see and do what interests you most in Tel Aviv. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Dinner: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Breakfast: At the hotel, enjoy a plentiful dairy buffet complete with fruit, fresh vegetables, salads, cereals, fresh breads, cheeses, eggs, and more. Juice, water, coffee and tea are included.

Morning: Begin the day with a lecture by a journalist, "Perspectives on the Peace Process 2". Then depart the hotel with the group leader and site coordinator and travel by coach to the “State of Mind” Innovation Center at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and meeting with an entrepreneur of an Israeli Start-Up company.

Lunch: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.

Afternoon: Free Time. Take this opportunity for personal independent exploration to see and do what interests you most in Tel Aviv. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions. We then rendezvous for a summary and conclusion session. The Group Leader will lead a wrap-up session to review program highlights, share favorite experiences, and say farewell to new Road Scholar friends before dinner.

Dinner: Enjoy a farewell dinner at a restaurant in Tel Aviv's Yemenite Quarter. Served "family style", the menu includes a number of Israeli salads, fresh pita, hummus, falafel, grilled meats, and dessert with mint tea. Soft drinks and wine are included. Beer is available for purchase. This concludes our program.

Evening: Depart by coach from the restaurant to Ben Gurion airport for departing flights. If you are returning home, safe travels. If you are staying on independently, have a wonderful time. If you are transferring to another Road Scholar program, detailed instructions are included in your Information Packet for that program. We hope you enjoy Road Scholar learning adventures and look forward to having you on rewarding programs in the future. Please join our Facebook page and share photos of your program. Visit us at www.facebook.com/rsadventures. Best wishes for all your journeys!