Beth Jacob Congregation San Diego is proud to offer you a chance to take part in our Mission to Israel 2012. Rabbi Avram Bogopulsky will lead us on a weeklong adventure through our ancestral Homeland. Whether this is your first time or one of many, this trip promises to be special and unique.

* Dates of travel: January 29th, 2012 - February 8th, 2012
* Cost: $1400 per person (double occupancy) excluding airfare
* Airfare estimate: $1200-$1500 per person

It's not too late to participate. Send an email immediately to president@bjsd.org and we'll get back to you quickly with more information.

Highlights

• - Kibbutz Lavi in the lower Galili.
• - Tour Golan Heights Winery and Chocolate Factory
• - Boating the Kinneret, Israel's largest freshwater lake.
• - Jeeping in the Judean desert
• - Davening at the Kotel (The Wailing Wall)
• - Tour the City of David in Jerusalem
• - Chevron (Hebron) - The Cave of the Patriarchs
• - Rachel's burial site
• - Sderot: meet the brave residents living under constant threat of rockets
• - Plant trees for Tu B' Shvat
• . . . and much much more!

Itenarary

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Congregation Beth Jacob Solidarity Mission
Led by Rabbi Avram Bogopulsky
January 29th - February 8th

Sunday January 29th Departure San Diego

Monday January 30th arrival in Israel.
Transfer directly to Kibbutz Lavi
Short tour of the Kibbutz
Dinner at the Kibbutz
A member of this unique religious Kibbutz will talk about life on the Kibbutz

Tuesday February 1st
Life in the Times of the Mishna in the Gallil

Tzipori: the site where Rebbe Yehuda Hanasi authored the Mishna
Kfar Kedem; Lunch and experience a Mishnaic village
Tverya; Kever Rabbi Akiva and the Ramchal
The Kineret; Israel's largest freshwater lake.
Dinner at the Kibbutz

Wednesday February 2nd
Golan Heights;

Visit Israel's northern border with Syria.
Golan Heights winery/or chocolate factory
Lunch in Katsrin the capital of the Golan
Jeeping in the Judean desert to the site overlooking where the Jewish Nation entered Israel under Yehoshua Bin Nun
Maariv at the Kotel
Dinner at Mamilla Mall

Overnight Jerusalem

Thursday February 3rd
The Southern Cities of Yehuda

Susya; a modern Yishuv modeled after an ancient village just across the st.
Meet a local resident who left the Church to return to his Jewish roots
Chevron; Lunch in Kiryat Arba, the Yishuv adjacent to Chevron
Meet the Brave residents that live in this special city of the Avos/Forefathers
Meet with Soldiers protecting the Oldest Jewish City
Mincha at Mearas Hamachpela
Maariv at Kever Rachel
Dinner on Emek Refaim

Friday February 4th
Erev Shabbos in Yerushalayim

Morning Tour; City of David
Lunch on Own
Get ready for Shabbos
Tish Friday Night

Shabbos February 5th

Shachris in the Newly Rebuilt Churva Shul at 8:00 am
Short Walking tour on Shabbos afternoon
The first neighborhoods built outside the walls

Sunday February 6th
Israel's Southern Frontier

Chessed Project Picking fruits Leket for the poor
Sderot; meet with the locals and hear how they live under the constant threat of rockets; Hesder Yeshiva of Sderot
Visit the former residents of Gush Katif and see the rebuilding of their communities
Dinner on own

Monday February 7th
Eastern Yerushalyim

The Old City visit those that have made their home outside the Jewish Quarter
Lunch in the Jewish Quarter
Har Hazeitim; the Oldest Jewish Cemetery in the world
Maaleh Hazaytim; the new Jewish development on Har Hazetim
Beit Orot; Plant trees for Tu Bshvat
Farewell Dinner

Tuesday February 8th
Departure