Friday 6 June
LY 082 06:30 and transfer to Jerusalem.
Breakfast at hotel
Orientation tour of Jerusalem
Afternoon free for rest and recovery
Shabbat Dinner
Lecture – Jewish Pluralism in Israel:
Why we need it and what is needed to get us there.
Saturday 7 June
Free
Evening get together with Jerusalem-based members of Ameinu.
Sunday 8 June
Morning tour of Jerusalem – Old city
Afternoon – NISPED (Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development) program.
- Introduction to NISPED
- Tikun Olam
- NISPED in the Middle East – Palestinian partners and projects
- Peace in the Middle East - Israel and Palestinians
NISPED is an independent educational institution conducting programs of training, project development and consultancy. It is affiliated to the Negev College. NISPED seeks to promote peace and development. Its concern is with fundamental processes of social change and with the centrality of civil society to their successful achievement. NISPED conducts international, regional (Middle East) and local (Israel) programs. See www.nisped.org.il.
Evening – Lecture by Collette Avital MK, current candidate for President of Israel and former Israel Consul General in New York – Israel's political landscape and policy directions
Monday 9 June
Full day tour of Jerusalem beginning with a morning tour of the security wall from the northern suburbs of the city to the southern edge near Bethlehem. The tour will be led by Ir Amim (“City of Nations” or “City of Peoples”) a group founded to actively engage in those issues impacting on Israeli–Palestinian relations in Jerusalem, and on the political future of the city. Visit www.ir-amim.org.il/eng.
Afternoon tour of the city including visits to Yad Vashem, the Knesset and Israel Museum
Evening free in Jerusalem
Tuesday 10 June
After breakfast depart for southern module - travel via Modi'in on to Ashkelon and stop in Sderot for a briefing on life in a city under rocket fire.
Visit Gaza border kibbutzim for briefing on security situation
Lunch at Kibbutz
Early evening arrive in Beersheba
Overnight in Beersheba
Wednesday 11 June
Full day NISPED program
- Presentation of NISPED and NISPED's Arab-Jewish Center for Equality Empowerment and Cooperation
- Visit to community playground project Hashem Zana
- Visit to winter camp in the Bedouin unrecognized village of Wadi Nam run by Jewish and Arab volunteers participating in AJEEC's Year of Community Service
- Bedouin Lunch
- Presentation of NISPED's International and Middle East Programs
- Visit to Desert Embroidery Project and lecture on Bedouin women in recognized town of Lakiya
Dinner |
Thursday 12 June
Depart Beersheba for Mitzpe Ramon
Travel south to Arava – Kibbutz Lotan (desert environment program including lunch)
Late afternoon return to Central Arava
Dinner and overnight in Tzimmer accommodation
Meeting with members of Arava Australia Partnership 2000 Committee – including presentation of achievements of the Partnership
Friday 13 June
Depart Arava for Tel Aviv Travel via the Dead Sea (Ein Bokek); Massada and Ein Gedi Shabbat Dinner in Tel Aviv
Saturday 14 June
Full day tour of Dan region: Drive along the Mediterranean seashore to Caesarea, once the Roman capital of the country, to visit King Herod's ancient port, the Roman Theater, the aqueduct and the fortifications of the Crusaders. Return to Tel Aviv via Herzliya Pituach Herzliya Pituach, a neighborhood of Herzliya and the epicenter of Israel's tech industry--otherwise known as the Silicon Coast. Here, global giants, veteran Israeli companies, and a welter of start-ups are nestled between the highway and the sea. Continue on to the old town of Jaffa, with its remnants of the history of the world's oldest port. Jaffa remains the Tel Avivians' perennial favourite, with a host of galleries, craft shops and cafés set against the landmarks of the Mamoudiyeh Mosque and St Peter's Monastery. Climbing from the Ottoman Clock Tower to Kedumim Square, visitors can view the breathtaking coastline of Tel Aviv as the metropolis prepares for another vibrant night.
Dinner
Sunday 15 June
Depart Tel Aviv for Galilee and Golan
Introduction to Kibbutz and tour of Kibbutz Yizreal in the Yezreel Valley Lunch at Kibbutz
On to the Golan Heights
Dinner and overnight at Kibbutz Hagoshrim
Lecture on Israel's northern communities in the aftermath of the Second Lebanon War
Monday 16 June
After breakfast travel to Menara for cable ride to Menara Lookout
Visit the Hula nature reserve and view the multimedia presentation
Travel via Safed to Carmiel and Acco Nahariya to Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra
Dinner and overnight in Haifa
Tuesday 17 June
Program with Yedid (a community organization established in 1997 to promote social justice in Israel by operating Citizen Rights Centres in poor communities throughout Israel)
Tour of Haifa including Bahai Center
Meeting with Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav
Dinner
Evening Lecture – Realising the Zionist dream
Wednesday 18 June
Morning - Closing program
Afternoon free for own arrangements
Evening – transfer to Ben Gurion International Airport for flight home
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