I T I N E R A R Y. The rest of the afternoon and evening is at leisure to explore Rome on your own. OVERNIGHT: HOTEL, ROME

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I T I N E R A R Y MONDAY, OCT 15 ARRIVAL TO ROME From your hometown make your own way to Rome.

services for guests on the same flight on your own account).

You will skip the entrance lines throughout the City Tour you just go right in, ahead of the lines. Lunch and Dinner are on your own today.

1 I T I N E R A R Y MONDAY, OCT 15 ARRIVAL TO ROME From your hometown make your own way to Rome. All meet in the lobby of the hotel time TBD to have our Welcome Dinner (we are able to arrange private transfer services and will coordinate everyone s flight in order to provide private transfer services for guests on the same flight on your own account). OVERNIGHT: HOTEL, ROME TUESDAY, OCT 16 TOUR OF ROME Following breakfast board your bus for a Guided City Tour with your guide, visiting the sites of Rome including the Jewish District. You will skip the entrance lines throughout the City Tour you just go right in, ahead of the lines. Lunch and Dinner are on your own today. OVERNIGHT: HOTEL, ROME WEDNESDAY, OCT 17 THE VATICAN This morning after breakfast you will have the honor of attending the Papal Audience. Afterwards, lunch on your own, then a special guided visit to the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel. Again, you do not stand in line, but are taken right in. The rest of the afternoon and evening is at leisure to explore Rome on your own. OVERNIGHT: HOTEL, ROME THURSDAY, OCT 18 GOODBYE ROME SHALOM ISRAEL ברוכים הבאים Arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport Meet our Representative at the entrance to Passport Control, he/she will assist with luggage, escort through Customs and take you to your guide and bus where you will Transfer to the hotel in Tel Aviv. Check in to Tel Aviv hotel. Festive Welcome Dinner in a private room of your hotel. OVERNIGHT: CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL, TEL AVIV

2 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 Breakfast at the hotel. TEL AVIV Take in the Palmach Museum s multi-media experience and get to know the courageous teenagers who defended Israel in the early days before the Israeli Army was officially established. (pending upon confirmation) Visit Independence Hall, site of the signing of Israel s Declaration of Independence, establishing Jewish sovereignty for the first time in 2,000 years. Visit the Nachalat Binyamin Arts and Crafts Fair as Tel Avivians prepare for the Sabbath and weekend, with lunch on your own. Free time for rest, relaxation and Sabbath preparation. Welcome in the Sabbath with Kabbalat Shabbat either as a group on the beach or at one of Tel Aviv s synagogues. Festive Sabbath Dinner in a private room of your hotel. OVERNIGHT: CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL, TEL AVIV SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 A SABBATH IN TEL AVIV OPTIONAL: Synagogue services at a variety of synagogues in the Tel Aviv area. Drive to Rehovot to visit the Ayalon Institute, a pre-state clandestine munitions factory for a look at some of the ingenuity that helped build the modern State of Israel. Through Beit Daniel, the progressive congregation in Tel Aviv, visit Old Jaffa for a Co- Existence Tour. This experience brings together a Jewish and an Arab tour guide to explore the mixed city of Jaffa, where Arabs and Jews live side by side; tracing the different historical narratives. We explore the possibility of creating a common future and shared society. Guided visit through Old Jaffa, the ancient city where Jonah began his journey and today a thriving artist s colony and port. Havdalah - a separation ceremony between the holiness of the Sabbath and rest of the week. Dinner on own. OVERNIGHT: CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL, TEL AVIV SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 OF MONKS AND MYSTICS Breakfast at hotel. OPTIONAL: Christian worship services at a variety of Churches in the Tel Aviv area. Depart for Northern Israel and stop at Caesarea, touring the Roman Theatre, the Hippodrome, the Promenade and Palace and the site of Paul s imprisonment, concluding with the remains of the Crusader City, exploring the relationship between Romans and Jews 2,000 years ago. Continue to Haifa to the Stella Maris Monastery and a theological dialogue with Monks about Jewish - Catholic relations in Israel. View the Bahai Gardens overlooking Haifa Bay. Late afternoon visit to Safed, the city of mystics and hidden spirituality, walking through the alleyways and ancient synagogues. Drive across the Galilee to the Nof Ginnosar Kibbutz Hotel. Check into hotel. Dinner at hotel in the dining room OVERNIGHT: NOF GINNOSAR KIBBUTZ HOTEL, GALILEE MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 NATURE AND TRADITION Drive to the Upper Galilee for a walk through the Banias Nature Reserve, located at the site recognized as Caesarea Philipi. Ascend to Mt. Bental for a view into Syria and an understanding of the delicate geopolitical situation on the Israeli-Syrian border.

3 Drive up the Golan Heights to the Druze Village of Bukata, for Home Hospitality with the Samara Family, and a dialogue about the Druze tradition, Syria, and their complex relationship with Israel. Walk through Capernaum, where Jesus taught during the days of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, including the ancient synagogue and church, with time for personal worship. Continue to Tabgha, the traditional site of the multiplication of loaves and fish and conclude the visit around the Sea of Galilee with an overlook on to the Sea from atop the Mount of Beatitudes, where the Sermon on the Mount took place. Return to the hotel with Dinner in the hotel s dining room. OVERNIGHT: NOF GINNOSAR KIBBUTZ HOTEL, GALILEE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 ON THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM Depart for Nazareth and visit the Church of the Annunciation and Joseph s Church. Continue to Beit Shean, known as Scytopolis, the capitol of the Byzantine Decapolis, with its Biblical and Roman- Byzantine archaeological remains. Drive through the Jordan Valley and stop at Qasr el Yahud, seen by Jews as the possible site where Joshua crossed the Jordan River, and by Christians as the site of Jesus baptism - walk up to the Jordan River along the Jordanian Border. Ascend to Jerusalem via the Eastern Gate and stop at Mount Scopus for an introduction to Jerusalem and an Ecumenical Arrival Ceremony with bread and wine, the tradition of Kings in Jerusalem. Check into hotel Dinner on own. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 THE LAYERS OF JERUSALEM Ascend to the Mount of Olives for an introduction to the city while overlooking the Temple Mount Harem A Sharif. Enter the Old City through the Jaffa Gate and walk along the marketplace rooftops, exploring the multi-ethnic weave of the city, with a bird s eye view of the walled city. Continue to the Jewish Quarter and walk through the Upper City of 2000 years ago, concluding at the Kotel (Western Wall), with time for personal reflection. Guided visit through the City of David, with Bible in hand, exploring the origins of Jerusalem, and walk thorugh the new tunnel which connects the City of David with the Davidson Archeaeological Park along the Southern Wall excavations. Lunch on your own en route. Drive South to Bethlehem for a visit to the Church of the Nativity, with a short Geo- Political tour en route. Return to Jerusalem - Dinner on your own. Visit the David Citadel Museum and view the Jerusalem Night Spectacular Sound and Light Experience. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 MEMORIES FOR THE FUTURE Visit Yad Vashem, Israel s National Memorial to the six million victims of the Holocaust, including the Historical Museum, the Avenue of the Righteous and the Children s Museum with a local guide. Visit the Sisters of Zion Convent in Ein Kerem for a dialogue with Sister Anna Maria on the unique role played by the order in Jewish-Christian relations and their post Holocaust change in theology regarding Judaism. Lunch on your own in Ein Kerem. Stop at the colorful and lively Machane Yehuda Market, with its special collection of scents and tastes from all over the world. Visit Yad be Yad a bilingual school, where Israeli Jews and Arabs learn together with a special curriculum designed to be inclusive for all, with Rebecca Bardach of Yad be Yad.

Dinner at Joy restaurant at the Mamilla Mall in a private room with speaker Khaled Abu Toameh, an independent award-winning Arab Israeli journalist and film producer.

4 Dinner at Joy restaurant at the Mamilla Mall in a private room with speaker Khaled Abu Toameh, an independent award-winning Arab Israeli journalist and film producer. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL SHABBAT SHALOM Depart for the Dead Sea Basin. Stop at the Qumran Caves to see where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. On to Masada, ascend by cable car up to the ancient Herodian fortress later used as a place of last refuge when free Jews held out against the Romans after the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE. Walk through the site and contemplate the meaning of the Masada story in contemporary life. Visit the Dead Sea - lunch and the opportunity to float in the famous water of the world s saltiest sea. Return to Jerusalem via the Judean Desert with and stop to view the Mar Saba or St. Georges Monetary. Welcome in the Sabbath at the Southern Wall Steps. Time to visit the Kotel (Western Wall). Festive Shabbat Dinner at the hotel in a Private room. SHABBAT, OCTOBER 27 SABBATH IN JERUSALEM CONCLUSIONS OPTIONAL: Sabbath Services OR Synagogue Hopping Tour exploring the various traditions from around the world that have re-established themselves in Jerusalem. Depart for guided visit through the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem for a walk along the Via Delarosa and a visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, visit the famous cemetery at the base. Next, visit Mt. Zion with the site of the Upper Room of the Last Supper and the tomb of King David. Festive Farewell Dinner in a private room. Depart for Ben Gurion Airport OR stay overnight if flight is next morning/day (an additional charge will be added). We are able to provide VIP Services upon departure and Transfers from the hotel in Jerusalem to Ben Gurion Airport (additional cost). Itinerary subject to change. 2/7/2018

Q U O T A T I O N ROME 10 14 paying guests: $1,585 per person, sharing Double Occupancy Single Supplement: $1,198 15-19 paying guests: $1,369 per person sharing Double Occupancy Single Supplement:

5 Q U O T A T I O N ROME paying guests: $1,585 per person, sharing Double Occupancy Single Supplement: $1, paying guests: $1,369 per person sharing Double Occupancy Single Supplement: $1, paying guests: $1,121 per person sharing Double Occupancy Single Supplement: $1, paying guests: $1,080 per person sharing Double Occupancy Single Supplement: $ 975 QUOTE IN ROME INCLUDES: 1) Accommodation in Rome TBD for three nights - from October 15 th to October 18 th, including breakfast daily and tourist taxes 4* Hotel. 2) Guided city tour with private bus. 3) Welcome Dinner. 4) Guided tour of the Jewish district. 5) Entrance fees. 6) Skip the line tickets for the entrance fees during the city tour. 7) Papal audience tickets. 8) Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel guided tour, including skip the line tickets. 9) Group Transfer on departure from the hotel to Rome s airport. ISRAEL paying guests: $4,215 per person sharing Double Occupancy paying guests: $3,790 per person sharing Double Occupancy paying guests: $3,542 per person sharing Double Occupancy paying guests: $3,365 Single Supplement: $1,298 QUOTE ISRAEL INCLUDES: Water on Bus. Porterage at airport and hotels 9 touring days as per itinerary, with English speaking private guide. 8 Full days sightseeing as per program in a Deluxe air-conditioned motor coach. Entrance fees as per our suggested program. 9 nights hotel accommodation at the above-mentioned hotels. Late check-out. Overnight for guide/driver outside home base. Guide/driver expenses. Local guide in Yad Vashem. Speakers: Khaled Abu Toameh; Yad be Yad; Co-existence tour in Jaffa; Stella Marris Ethological dialogue (pending upon confirmation). Yad be Yad bilingual school. Departure Transfer from Farewell dinner to Ben Gurion airport for flights departing plus or minus midnight by one 1 ½ hours. MEAL ARRANGEMENTS INCLUDING Full Israeli Buffet Breakfast Daily. 18/Oct dinner at Hotel in a private room. 19/Oct dinner at Hotel in a private room. 21/Oct dinner at Hotel. 22/Oct Druze home hospitality 22/Oct dinner at Hotel. 25/Oct At Joy restaurant in a private room at Mamilla mall. 26/Oct Swim and lunch Dead Sea 26/Oct dinner at Hotel in a private room. 27/Oct Farewell dinner at Olive and Fish Restaurant or similar.

6 THE ABOVE DOES NOT INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: Cost of round trip airfare from country of origin to Israel. Any expenses of a personal nature. Meals other than those indicated. Gratuities to guide/driver, hotel personnel. Wireless Internet at hotels if not provided. Spa treatments. Overtime or over mileage beyond what has been allotted. Personal health insurance, insurance for baggage, personal items, trip cancellation or interruption. HOTELS IN ISRAEL: All rates are based on hotel rooms including breakfast. Check in is at 2pm, Check out at noon. Some hotels charge for wireless internet service. THE TOUR DAY: The above proposal has been priced based on the itinerary, mileage and hours to be traveled, and the other touring elements noted above. Should you veer from the printed program this may result in over mileage and/or overtime charges above and beyond what has been budgeted. The tour day is based on up to ten hours per day and 200km distance of driving. Such charges will be billed to you at the end of the trip. PASSPORT VALIDITY: All passports need to be valid for at least six months from the date of departure from the USA. CANCELLATION POLICY: Up to 60 days prior to arrival No cancellation fee. Up to days prior to arrival: 50% of the contract room block. Within 35 days prior to arrival: 100% Full payment. TERMS & CONDITONS: 1. A Deposit of $250 per person % by 60 days prior to arrival. 3. Final and full payment is required 35 days prior to arrival. 4. Payment for Land Arrangements may be made via check, made out and payable to CK Travel Services Ventura Blvd. # Sherman Oaks, CA OR via credit card 3% needs to be added to the charges. Go to and click on PAYMENTS. 5. All above prices and all payments must be made in U. S. dollars. 6. For flights and Travel Insurance please contact Sheila Cohen at Santa Barbara Travel Bureau/Virtuoso - Tel: SCohn@sbtravel.com RESPONSIBILITY: C K Travel Services, (hereinafter called the Tour Operator), acts only as an agent for the various companies, owners or contractors providing the means of transportation, accommodation and other services. All exchange orders, coupons and tickets are offered subject to the Terms and Conditions under which such services are offered or provided. The issuance and acceptance of such tickets shall be deemed to be consent to the further conditions that the Tour Operator shall not be in any way liable for injury, damage, loss, accident, delay or irregularity in any vehicle, or through the acts or defaults of any company or person engaged in conveying the passenger/s or of any hotel proprietor, personnel or servant otherwise in connection therewith. The airline and transportation companies concerned are not to be held responsible for any act; omission or event during the time passengers are not on board their planes or conveyances. The right is reserved to withdraw any tour announced in this program and to make such alterations to the itineraries as may be found desirable for the proper carrying out of the tours. In the event it becomes necessary or advisable in the Tour Operator's discretion to alter the

arrangements or itineraries for the passenger/s comfort or welfare or for any reason whatsoever, such alterations may be made without penalty to the Operator.

7 arrangements or itineraries for the passenger/s comfort or welfare or for any reason whatsoever, such alterations may be made without penalty to the Operator. The Tour Operator reserves the right to change any hotel/s listed with one of a similar category if circumstances necessitate. Additional expenses, if any, shall be borne by the passenger/s. The right is reserved to decline to accept or retain any person as a member of any group at any time....o.0.o... Operated in Rome by: Operated in Israel by: IGT Israel & Global Travel 2/7/2018

Israel Bible Land Tour

Israel Bible Land Tour Your consultant: Anu Arora Phone: +91-9899685829 E-mail: worldwide@cultureholidaysindia.com Day 1 Monday - Jerusalem Upon arrival to the airport, you will meet our representative