We’re starting a different type of tours to Israel, sort of “Sharon tours” where Arik bused Israelis to Golans to show that Jewish cities lie at shooting distance. Our tours will show real Israel rather than Tel Aviv beaches with happy homosexuals. You will meet real religious Jews, settlers, and Arabs, hear real stories, and see the real life.
Everyone is welcome, regardless of age and religion. The trip is a great Jewish education for your children during summer vacation. Tours are planned for seven days, $680 per person. Schedule is flexible; groups of 20-40 people can set their own dates. Security will be good: armored bus, armed guard.
Please express interest in the comments below or email me at nospam @ samsonblinded.org
Day one
Gush Etzion, Judea
view from Mount Neve Daniel, visiting the namesake settlement
view Separation Barrier, Rachel’s Tomb, Bethlehem
discussion of regional demography
Herodion palace
Kfar Etzion settlement; Ancient Judea movie
Bat-Ayn settlement, meeting with Moti Karpel (Zo Arzeinu) and Nadja Matar (Women in Green)
spend night in Kiryat Arba
Day two
South Hebron mountain
Maon cheese farm
meet Yehoshafat Tor, settler farmer
Hebron, Beit-Hadassa
development of Jewish Hebron since 1967, local history museum, Jewish Quarter
meet Noam, press secretary of Hebron municipality
Ancient District: Tel-Rumeida, Yishai’s (David father’s) lands, tomb of Yishai and Ruth (King David’s grandmother)
the incredible tour guide, Baruch Marzel, head of Jewish National Front Party and a close associate of Rav Meir Kahane
Mearat ha-Machpela, tomb of the patriarchs
prayer
meet residents of Beit Shalom in Hebron, a strategic house purchased from Arabs and contested by Israeli government
Day three
Samaria
“illegal outposts” (Jewish settlements) Givat Asaf, Megron, and Amona (!)
meet Israel Harel or Uri Elizur
mount Shilo and the namesake settlement
Rahelim region, outposts of Yitzhar and Itamar (that’s like visiting City of David, folks!)
Karnei-Shomron, meet Rav Michael Ben-Ari, PhD, board member of Jewish Front
Ariel, meeting in college with Israel Hanukoglo
Day four
going north
Mount Meron, tombs of Rashbi (author of Zohar) and Maimonides
history of bar Kochba’s revolt, death of 24,000 Rabbi Akiva’s students
Golan Heights
Nov settlement
meet Michael Ben-Chorin, President of the State of Judea under Rav Kahane
Druze village
walking the vicinity
Day five
going south
Sderot, Netivot
Kfar-Maimon, history of Gush Katif destruction and resistance
checkpoint Kisufim where Lena Bosinov immolated herself to protest the eviction of Jews from Gaza
meet Rav Wolpe (a maverick Chabadnick who keeps alive the Rebbe’s rejection of the Palestinian state)
temporary settlement of Nitzanim, meet Gush Katif evictees
night in Hebron
Day six
Jerusalem
ascending the Temple Mount
Hasmonean Tunnel (government mood permitting) under the Temple Mount
Jewish Quarter
Jewish enclaves in Muslim Quarter
Mount Scopus, the Western Wall
Institute for Temple Reconstruction
exhibition of the Temple’s utensils
Rav Yehuda Kroiser’s lesson in Rav Kahane’s yeshiva “The Jewish Idea”
Day seven
Shabbat with Jewish families
(depending on the day of group’s arrival, Shabbat could fall on another day)
Days eight-ten, optional
Arab villages in Galilee (not tourist spots)
archeological sites
Jerusalem archeological museum
Yad Vashem (Holocaust museum)
Dead Sea. Qumran
