Nashville Jewish Community Solidarity Mission

• Departure from United States

• Arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport, with assistance by a Makor Educational Journeys representative.
• Proceed to Jerusalem.
• Visit to the National Library of Israel.
• Check in to the hotel, time to get settled in.
• Dinner at the hotel, followed by talk with journalist Haviv Rettig-Gur of the Times of Israel: “Today’s Israel in the Aftermath of the October 7 Tragedy.”

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Depart for the Western Negev for Agricultural Volunteering at one of the Kibbutzim.
• Visit one of the Kibbutzim in the Gaza envelope that was brutally attacked in the Hamas onslaught.
• Continue to Sderot, which has become a symbol of Israel’ s longstanding conflict with Hamas – drive through the town, stopping at the once famous police station, which was demolished in the aftermath of the attack.
• Lunch in Sderot
• Drive to the site of the Nova Festival, located next to Kibbutz Reim, where close to 400 people were killed and many were taken hostage.
• Continue to the Tekuma Car Cemetery, where many of the destroyed vehicles that belonged to the Nova Festival attendees were brought after October 7.
• Return to Jerusalem
• Dinner on own and free evening.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Visit the new Memorial to Israel’s fallen and some of the new graves at the Mount Herzl National Cemetery, including the graves of those killed in the current war.
• Continue to the bustling open-air Machane Yehuda Market to take in a slice of local life as Jerusalemites prepare for Shabbat and fill Shabbat Gift Baskets for bereaved families.
• Lunch on own.
• Free time to relax and explore Jerusalem.
• Return to hotel; time to freshen up.
• Optional late afternoon visit to the Kotel, followed by candle lighting.
• Kabbalat Shabbat.
• Shabbat Dinner at the hotel.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Shabbat services or free morning.
• Optional Shabbat Lunch at the hotel in the main dining room.
• Possible touring options:
  • The Poet and the Windmill – Guided walk through the Yemin Moshe neighborhood with the poetry of Yehudah Amichai.
  • A Historic Weave of Jerusalem – Walk through the Valley of Hinnom, using the Bible as guide to the top of Mount Zion and continuing to the Jewish Quarter.
  • The new Israel Museum on own.
  • Jerusalem: A City of Many Traditions – Visit the Old City, beginning with a guided walk, through Mount Zion and continue along the Ramparts, followed by free time in the Old City Markets – The Shuk.
  • Christian Jerusalem – Guided visit to the Christian Quarter, including part of the Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
• Dinner on own and free evening.

• Breakfast at the hotel and check out.
• Volunteer at Leket in the fields near Rishon Lezion.
• Continue to Tel Aviv.
• Lunch at Aroma at the ANU Museum.
• Visit ANU – the new Museum of the Jewish People on the campus of Tel Aviv University for a special mission program: using the creativity of the present, explore the story of the Jewish People, with our past as a map toward the future.
• Visit the Tel Aviv Museum Plaza, now renamed as Hostage Square, which is the focal point of the hostage families’ efforts to “BRING THEM HOME.”
• Check-in to Tel Aviv hotel for day-use time to freshen up for dinner and flights home.
• Free time to shop, relax and explore.
• Wrap-up conversation and farewell dinner at a Tel Aviv restaurant.
• Transfer to Ben Gurion International Airport for U.S. bound flights

Arrivals to United States