Israel Innovation
Discover how Israel went from exporting Jaffa oranges to becoming one of the world’s most advanced cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, agricultural, and medical tech powerhouses in just a few decades. Learn about Israel’s no-nonsense business culture, entrepreneurship, advanced research institutions, that has made Israel a staggering technological success
# Day 1 - Arrival
- Arrival in Israel -Snacks and refreshments
- Visit Kfar Kedem What daily life was like in the Galilee, over 2000 years ago; the times of the Mishnah. Enjoy an authentic lunch, learn to press oil as our ancestors did, and ride a donkey on the same path as Avraham Avinu.
- Enjoy dinner at Decks Grill on the shore of the Kinneret
- Check in to your hotel
# Day 2 - Thursday
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Get wet a tornado bout ride along the coast line of the Mediterranean sea
- Lunch at the area
- In Rosh Hanikra we will enjoy the spectacular grottos of the white chalk cliff face
- Enjoy a Snorkel in the Mediterranean sea and then enjoy a color workshop
- Dinner at hotel
# Day 3 - Thursday
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Hike in Tel dan and hear the history of the area
- Lunch at the area
- Enjoy magical kayaks river adventure, comfortably rafting by and under riverside foliage, down the beautifully clear Hatzbani stream, later merging with the Banias stream to create the Jordan River
- Prepare for Shabbat
# Day 5 - Shabbat
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Shahrit
- Shabbat festive Lunch at your hotel
- Relaxation at the hotel
- Seuda shlishit
- After Shabbat adventurous moonlight hikes into Bental Volcano’s crater holding oil’s lamps, learn about the stars and about volcanos in the Golan.
# Day 6 - Sunday
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Enjoy the hot springs in Hamat Gader and many other activities the site has to offer
- Visit to Bustan Bereshit in the Golan – the biggest fruit picking and attraction site in Israel. 100 dunams of scents, flavors and colors –eat much of the seasonal fruit as you’d like.
- Tour Mt. Bental and Oz 77- a battle heritage site and have a lookout towards the Syrian border
- Enjoy an off road Jeep Ride through the Golan heights and take in the wonders that the sites offer
# Day 7 - Monday
- Breakfast at your hotel
- Check out
- Visit Kibbutz Malkia and meet with Col. Eitan Oren who will give you a tour of his kibbutz and base and discuss life along Israel’s borders
- Enjoy lunch at Safed
- Tour the mystical city of Safed with its connections to kabbalah, visit the ancient Ari Synagogues and the Synagogue of Rabbi Yosef Karo
- Visit Gan Guru- the only Australian Zoo outside of Australia, in which both vegetation and wildlife live
- Head to Jerusalem
# Day 8 - Tuesday
- Head south to The Salad Trail – Where Zionism and Modern Agriculture meet
- Continue to an Army Base to meet with the soldiers who will take us for a tour of the base.
- Have fun- Enjoy a sand boarding!
- Head back to Jerusalem
# Day 9 - Wednesday
- Start the day at Emek Tzurim where you will have the chance to sift through rubble that originated in ancient buildings atop the Temple Mount and learn about the artifacts from expert archaeologists and guides at the site
- Lunch at the Jewish Quarter
- Volunteer at “The Jerusalem Hills Therapeutic Centers for kids who come from very bad backgrounds-help painting the walls of building on campus and have a tour at the place.
- Enjoy a workshop at Ein Yael
- Free evening
# Day 10 - Thursday
- Give something back volunteering with Project Leket, Israel’s largest food bank, and help salvage the surplus produce of Israel’s fields. These will then be sent to some of Israel’s neediest families
- Extreme water sport at the marina in Ashdod- Bananas, Tubes, sailing
- Head back to Jerusalem
# Day 11 - Friday
- Start your day at the innovation center at Tel Aviv-an exhibition of Israeli technology and start up
- Enjpy shopping at the Carmel market and the arts and crafts market at "Nachalat Binyamin"
- Head back to Jerusalem
- Shabbat festive dinner at the Hotel
# Day 12 - Shabbat
- Breakfast
- Shahrit
- Shabbat festive Lunch
- Spent the day at the JM Citadel hotel- enjoy the hotel’s facilities
- Seuda Shlishit and Habdala
- After Shabbat experience the Tower of David’s Sound and Light show, among the archaeological remains in the Citadel’s courtyard listen to the sound of original music, and watch as the story of Jerusalem unfolds through giant breathtaking, virtual reality images.
- Free time in Mammilla or at The First Station
- Overnight Apartment in JM