Knowing Israel Study Tour May - June 2007


  • Visit the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rechovot

  • Lunch with students at the IDC Herzliya (Interdisciplinary Center)

  • Visit television channel 10 in Tel-Aviv: Roundtable Discussion with Tzvi Yechezkely,
           chief editor of the Arab Desk at “Channel 10” and other journalists

  • Dinner with Nathan Sharansky

  • Helicopter tour over Southern Israel

  • Lunch with Israeli Arabs in Haifa

  • Visit Haifa meeting with Shlomo Gilboa – Member of the Municipal Council

  • Visit Beit-Hagefen – Coexistence walking tour Wadi Nisnas

  • Golan Heights overview "Tazpit Shalom"

  • Visit Yad Vashem the Holocaust Martyr’s and Heroes Remembrance Museum

  • Dinner discussion with Maysa Baransi-Siniora Co-Director of the "All for Peace" Radio station.

  • Visit the city of David explore underground water tunnel of the Gihon spring

  • Walking tour through the Old City of Jerusalem: Via Dolorosa, Christian Quarter,
           Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Muslim Quarter, The Market, The restored Jewish Quarter,
           the Western Wall

  • Dinner discussion with Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, President of the
          Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

  • Breakfast with Dr. Menachem Klein, Senior Lecturer Department of Political Studies Bar-Ilan University

  • Walking Tour through Old Jaffa with its seaport and galleries & Tel Aviv learn about the unique urban
           city and its Bauhaus architecture

  • Meeting with Prof Uzi Arad, Chair of the Herzliya Conference

  • Visit Masada

  • Float in the Dead Sea

  • Nightlife in Tel-Aviv

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