OCT 2023 tour To Israel (This tour has now been postponed to April 2024 due to the on-going conflict in israel)

Meet and assist By Hepzibah Representative. “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord” (Ps. 118:26) from Ben Gurion Airport we drive to your hotel for rest.
Overnight – Tiberias or surrounding area

Driving on Mt. Tabor, the Mount of the Transfiguration (Matth. 17:1-8), wonderful panoramic view.
We will continue to Nazareth to visit the basilica of the Annunciation and the nearby Church of St. Joseph with the traditional Home of the Holy Family. Visit Mary’s Well.
Next we drive through the beautiful landscape of Lower Galilee, the home of many Jesus’ disciples. Visit to Mt. Precipice where the wrathful inhabitants of Nazareth wanted to cast Jesus down headlong.
Visit the wedding Cana Church
Overnight – Tiberias or surrounding area

Holyland Sailing
Visit to the Mt. of Beatitudes, the scene of the Sermon on the Mount. Continue to Tabgha to visit the Church of the Multiplication of the Loves and Fishes and the nearby Chapel of the Primacy. This is followed by a visit to the ruins of the ancient town of Capernaum which in Jesus’ days was a flourishing border town, also known as “his own city” (Matth. 4:13). We will see the ancient synagogue and the “House of Peter”.
Overnight – Tiberias or surrounding area

Yardenit
Drive to Jericho the most ancient city in the world, we drive on, stopping in the shade of sycamore tree of the kind which Zacchaeus climbed in order to see Jesus (Lk. 19:1-10). Ascend to the Qarantal monastery (by cable car), built on the slopes of the Mount of Temptation 350 meters above sea level.
Have a chance to float on the unique waters of the Dead Sea
Overnight – Jerusalem

Visit the Basilica of the Nativity where there will be the opportunity to kneel at the birthplace of Christ in the Grotto of the Nativity.
Visit the Fields of the Shepherds where the Angel of the Lord proclaimed the birth of the Messiah, the Savior of the World.
Drive to Ein Kerem where John Baptist was born, Church of St. John the Baptist and Church of the Visitation.
Overnight – Jerusalem

Mount Herzl
Start this eventful day visiting Yad Vashem, the holocaust museum. Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors.
The Garden Tomb
Church of St Peter in Gallicantu
Overnight – Jerusalem

The temple mount
We shall enter within the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem and walk in the footsteps of our Lord as he bore the burden of our sins to the Cross at Golgotha. We visit the Pools of Bethesda where Jesus healed the man who had been crippled for 38 years (Joh. 5:1-9) and walk on following the 14 stations of the Cross from Pilate’s Judgment Hall to the empty tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. We shall visit the Western Wall (Wailing Wall). We drive to the top of the Mount of Olives from which Jesus ascended to heaven after his resurrection. From the Mount there is a magnificent view over all ancient and modern Jerusalem, the center of the biblical world. We visit the holy shrines on the Mount and walk on down the “Palm Sunday Road” visiting the Chapel of Dominus Flevit (Jesus wept) en route to the Garden of Gethsemane and the Church of all Nations where Christ prayed. Overnight – Jerusalem

Free day for shopping. No bus, no guide