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Sample Itinerary, Israel and Palestine

The actual itinerary changes from trip to trip. Most of our time is spent in the Jerusalem area, the Galilee and across the Green Line in the West Bank. Below is an actual itinerary from a recent delegation:

Day 1

5:50 pm Arrive Tel Aviv

private bus to Ecce Homo Convent, Old City

dinner and opening circle
Day 2

Old City walk - holy sites in Christian, Jewish and Muslim quarters;

Introductions & Compassionate Listening Training;

8:00 pm Anita, Israeli farmer and former Gaza resident

Day 3

9:00-6:30: Tour Separation Wall and listening session with Israeli activist;

Wi'am Director, Zoughbi al-Zoughbi, Bethlehem;

Orit Noked, Israeli Member of Parliament (Knesset);

evening: group

Day 4

Yad v' Shem, Holocaust Museum; lunch and walking in Ein Karem

Shani Werner, New Profile and Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace;

evening: Group

Day 5

Hope Flowers School, Al-Khader, West Bank, with Director Ibrahim Issa;

Kfar Etzion, Israeli settlement in the West Bank

Devorah, Founder of Bat Ayin settlement

Evening: Group
Day 6

Visit Bethlehem area-including Church of Nativity

Listening session with Mayor (Hamas party) in West Bank village, municipality office

Arrive at Al-Arroub Refugee Camp

Meeting with heads of Camp and Women's Committee

evening: overnight with families in the camp

Day 7

10:30 - depart for Hebron

Hisham Sharabati, Palestinian journalist and human rights researcher

Christian Peacemaker Team

Tour Abraham's Tomb/Ibrahimi Mosque

Beit Haddassah Settlement and Museum honoring Jewish victims of the 1929 massacre in Hebron

Day 8

Danny Seaman, Israeli Government Press Officer

lunch at Kibbutz Tzuba with friends of the project

Tour John the Baptist's Cave with Kibbutz guide

drive to Haifa; evening: Group

Day 9

Listening session with Israeli peacemaker Hagit Raanan; travel with Hagit to Metullah and the Good Fence on the Lebanese border

lunch in Kiryat Shmona and listening to residents

listening session with Israeli kindergarten director, Rhonda (in the bomb shelter of Tzfat Hospital) whose son was wounded in the 2006 war with Lebanon.

evening: Rosh Pina for dinner and listening session with local Israeli women, hosted by Anael Harpaz

Day 10

optional trip to the Baha'i Temple and Mediterranean beach

listening to bereaved family of 15-year old Du'a Abbass, victim of a Hizballah rocket in July 2006, in M'ghar, Israel;

evening: group

Day 11

President, al-Qasemi College, Baka al-Gharbiyyeh

Ellen Goldberg, New Israel Fund

free time in Jerusalem

Day 12

Ramallah

Bil'in village - witness international demonstration against the Separation Wall

film screening of "Bil'in, My Beloved" with Israeli director Shai Pollack

3-6: Home visit and Shabbat observance with Dalia Landau, Founder, Open House and (and protagonist in Sandy Tolan's book "The Lemon Tree"

Day 13

morning: group

afternoon: free time

closing the circle and group dinner

depart for airport