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YOUR journey
J² crafts journeys of inspiration, education, and Jewish connections to Israel and worldwide. We are guided by a simple but powerful concept: No two trips are the same; each experience should be personal, meaningful, and backed by superb service. Travel is not just about the places you visit, but the connections you make along the way.
Art & Culture 
Cooking Workshop 
Family Friendly 
Active 
Street Food - Food & Wine
Nature Walks 
Jeep Tour 
Home Hospitality 
Local Specialists
THE EXPERT
Program Itinerary
DAY 1
ON OUR WAY
Sun. Jun 15, 2025
- Depart the US.
Overnight: Flight
DAY 2
WELCOME TO ISRAEL
Mon. Jun 16, 2025
- Arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport.
- Meet your J² Expert Educator who will accompany you on this journey of education and inspiration.
- Tour Rothschild Boulevard from Tel Aviv's earliest days to its contemporary status as one of the world's most dynamic cities.
- Visit the Peres Peace Center, created by the late Shimon Peres, former Prime Minister and President of Israel.
- Stop at the Jaffa lookout for an introduction to Tel Aviv and to our journey in Israel.
- Check into the hotel.
Overnight: Tel Aviv
DAY 3
CULTURE & CREATIVITY IN TEL AVIV
Tue. Jun 17, 2025
- Enjoy breakfast at an Israeli hotel.
- Visit ANU - Museum of the Jewish People.
- Enjoy lunch (not included in package) at the Sarona Market, which was once a colony of Templars, German Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, but is now a center of Tel Aviv cuisine.
- Walk through the streets of Florentine, Tel Aviv, to check out local murals and graffiti that are capturing people’s response to recent events.
- Hit the beach with the rest of Tel Aviv for a swim and paddle ball game.
Overnight: Tel Aviv
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 4
NATURE AND SPIRIT
Wed. Jun 18, 2025
- Check out of the hotel.
- Drive north on the Trans-Israel Highway and see the Security Barrier.
- Stop at the Ancient Roman Aqueduct, located on the pristine beaches of Caesarea, and start our journey with some words of inspiration from the late poet Hanna Szenes.
- Spend time in Tsfat, where you will:
- Meet with David Friedman, a Tsfat artist inspired by Kabbalah.
- Engage in a musical session with the local “Agadata” band, playing Kabbalah-inspired music on authentic musical instruments.
- Visit the Ari Synagogue.
- See the Caro Synagogue, built originally, like the Ari Synagogue, in the 16th century.
- Walk through the Artists’ Colony.
- Lunch on own in Tsfat.
- Explore Rosh Pina, one of the earliest Zionist agricultural settlements, now a village and artists’ colony.
- Visit the Hula Nature Reserve, home to thousands of storks, cranes, pelicans, and flamingos. Enjoy bike-riding and golf-carting.
- Check into the hotel, followed by dinner.
Overnight: Upper Galilee
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
DAY 5
THE GALILEE MOSAIC
Thu. Jun 19, 2025
- Celebrate a Bnai Mitzvah ceremony at the Ancient Katzrin Synagogue.
- We'll gaze across the Golan and into Syria from the top of Mount Bental and gain powerful insights into Israel's geopolitical and security situation.
- Go on an off-road Jeep tour of the far north and the border with Lebanon.
- Visit the Odem Mountain Winery at the foot of Mt. Hermon on the Golan Heights for wine tasting.
- For families with children: Visit the Odem Freedom Farm and Animal Rescue Center and learn about the center's unique rehabilitation work with a variety of animals.
- Join Gadi Elias and his family at their Baba Yona Ranch for a home hospitality dinner. He will share his story about how he has been serving our country and ensuring that our soldiers up north are fed since October 8, 2023.
Overnight: Upper Galilee
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
DAY 6
PASSAGES IN TIME
Fri. Jun 20, 2025
- Check out of the hotel.
- Visit Kfar Kedem in the Galilee for a hands-on family experience, exploring Jewish life of 2,000 years ago, including donkey rides, costumes, and pita baking.
- Head to Jerusalem. Stop at the Haas Promenade for a traditional shehehiyanu blessing of thanksgiving.
- Check into the hotel.
- Return to the hotel to prepare for Shabbat.
- Experience a musical Kabbalat Shabbat at the First Train Station.
Overnight: Jerusalem
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 7
SHABBAT IN JERUSALEM
Sat. Jun 21, 2025
- Tour the Tower of David Museum and explore the city's history – from the time of Abraham to the end of the British Mandate over Palestine:
- Explore Jerusalem's Old City including the Jewish and Christian Quarter's including a rooftop view of the holy cities most sacred sites.
- Visit the Kotel (Western Wall), widely considered Judaism’s holiest site. We’ll discuss the wall’s historical and contemporary importance and experience its unique atmosphere.
- Exit the Old City through the Jaffa Gate
- Havdalah overlooking the Old City.
Overnight: Jerusalem
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 8
CONNECTING TO THE PAST
Sun. Jun 22, 2025
- Meet with members of Brothers for Life, a non-profit organization, created and run by injured Israeli veterans, which gives critical and immediate help to other injured Israeli combat veterans who sacrificed their lives for the safety of the Jewish people.
- Take part in an interactive archeological dig geared to all ages at the Beit Guvrin Caves.
- Explore The National Library of Israel.
Overnight: Jerusalem
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 9
A JUDAEAN DESERT ADVENTURE
Mon. Jun 23, 2025
- Tour Masada, where Jewish rebels are believed to have made their final attempt to resist Roman invaders (c 74 CE), an internationally renowned world heritage site.
- Spend time at the Ein Bokek beach enjoying a dip in water and mineral mud at the Dead Sea.
- Participate in an interactive experience recreating ancient Jewish desert life In Genesis Land:
- Take part in a sheep-herding session.
- Create art with mosaic and biblical letter-writing workshops.
- Return to Jerusalem.
Overnight: Jerusalem
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 10
LIVING MEMORIES
Tue. Jun 24, 2025
- Breakfast followed by checkout.
- Adults and children over 10: Visit Yad Vashem, the central memorial and educational site commemorating the Holocaust and its ongoing impact on the Jewish world and the State of Israel.
- For families with children: Enjoy Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo.
- Visit Mount Herzl, Israel's national cemetery.
- Experience the sights, smells, and tastes of Jerusalem at the Mahane Yehuda open-air market.
- Festive farewell dinner.
Overnight: Flight
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
DAY 11
HOME
Wed. Jun 25, 2025
- Arrive in the US.
RATES & LODGING
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participants
20+
Cost p/p in double room
$4,940
Cost p/p in single room
$6,360
Child As 3rd (Reduction)
- ($700)
Tel Aviv: Carlton
- Nights: 2
- Room Category: Premium Side Sea View
- Hotel Website
Sea of Galilee: Nof Ginosar Hotel
- Nights: 2
- Room Category: Deluxe
- Hotel Website
Jerusalem: Dan Panorama
- Nights: 4
- Room Category: Deluxe
- Hotel Website
What to expect
- 8 nights' accommodations.
- 9 days of touring with a J² Expert Educator (guide), 8 days of touring in a luxury, air-conditioned bus.
- Daily breakfast & 3 dinners.
- The J² adventures App available on the App Store & on Google Play (active 7 days before your departure and throughout your trip).
- Water on the bus.
- Porterage at the hotels.
- All site entrance fees & program fees as per your final program.
- Credit card fees.
- Flights to & from Israel.
- Late check out on the day of departure.
- COVID related expenses, including tests.
- Evening transportation when dinner is not included.
- Amendments to the program: In the event that any sites, programs or meals etc. are added to the program, an additional fee may be required.
- Personal extras: Items of personal nature such as laundry, wines, mineral water, beverages, coffee, tea, food other than the table d’hotel menu, passport and visa fees, insurance, and foreign port taxes, unless otherwise specified.
- Gratuities: Recommend guidelines for tipping are provided in the terms section.
- US and foreign airport taxes, Q fuel surcharge and border taxes when applicable.
- Value Added Tax is currently not applicable to tourists visiting Israel. Should the law change, you will be notified accordingly, and VAT will be added to your final invoice.
- Please review our terms & conditions (T&C’s) or request that we send you our full T&C’s. Until you do that, here is the small print, and other stuff you may want to know:
- Validity | All prices quoted are based on exchange rates as of the proposal date and are subject to change without notice. Rates are per person and are based on shared twin room occupancy.
- How to Make a Reservation | The quickest way to make a reservation is to register online or contact us by email. We accept VISA, MasterCard, and American Express credit cards. A non-refundable deposit of $500 is required in order to complete the registration process.
- For any assistance with this registration process or other trip-related queries, please email Customer Care: [email protected].
- Payments | The balance of your payment is due 90 days before your trip begins, or as specified in your invoice. You will receive an email reminder 2 weeks before this date. Various payment options are available as follows:
- Credit card | We accept Visa, Mastercard and American Express. Please check with your credit card provider regarding international processing fees. We are unable to process payments of over $1,000 over the phone. Please submit payment online via a credit card or by wiring funds via your bank.
- Domestic bank wire transfer | Payment should be wired in the same currency that is listed on your invoice. Please add the name of your group or invoice number as a reference and forward a copy of the transfer receipt by email. The bank transfer should clearly state the beneficiary’s name on the wire transfer.
- J² Adventures reserves the right to automatically cancel your reservation on that date and it may be subject to reconfirmation should the final payment not be received.
- Cancelation Policy | All cancelations need to be made in writing. The cancelation fee depends on the date when we receive written notification of your request to cancel your booking. Please note that the deposit is non-refundable.
- Cancelation fees | Cancelations made 90 or more days prior to departure incur the loss of the deposit. Cancelations made 89 to 46 days prior to departure incur the loss of 50% of the full trip cost. Cancelations made 45 days or less prior to the departure incur the loss of 100% of the full trip cost.
- Cancelation fees may also include: Hotel or supplier cancelation fees. J² Adventures reserves the right to adjust its terms of payment, including cancelation policies and initial deposits.
- Protect yourself from fraud by being cautious and vigilant when it comes to online theft. It is crucial to note that J² adventures will never send an email requesting you to transfer funds to a new account or to redirect a payment. We will never alter our account number or issue additional payment requests without first personally speaking to you and properly identifying ourselves. If you feel uncertain about any communication (scammers often impersonate legitimate companies via e-mail or by calling), halt and contact us directly through our toll-free number listed on our website to discuss any necessary payments. Refrain from responding to suspicious emails or clicking on links or attachments unless you are completely certain of their legitimacy. By following these guidelines and staying vigilant, you can significantly reduce your risk of becoming a victim of fraud.
- Please click here to view our full terms (T&C’s). These T&C’s apply to all reservations created within J2 Adventures.
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