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The following tours are offered exclusively to Symposium participants and
accompanying persons. Kenes Tours will be happy to arrange additional pre- or
post-Symposium tours or hotel extensions for Symposium delegates as per special
request. Please contact Kenes Tours directly by fax or apply to the Hospitality
Desk during the Symposium.
TOUR A MASSADA, DEAD SEA, EIN GEDI
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2000, 08.00 -
17.00
 Full day tour
Travel to a land of mesmerizing beauty and contrast: The Judean Desert and Dead
Sea Valley, fertile and ever-changing, remote desert canyons, immense and still.
This unique landscape, where one can find monuments from every age of humanity,
is crowned by the rock fortress Massada.
Built by King Herod the Great, King of
Judea during the Roman period, and founder of the Herodian Dynasty, this
fortress served as the last place of refuge for 965 men, women and children,
survivors of the "Great Revolt". Besieged by the Romans and losing all
hope, they chose death rather than surrender.
Enjoy the beauty of the Judean
Desert and experience the unique sensation of "swimming" in the Dead
Sea, the lowest point on earth (420 m below sea level).
Return to Jerusalem
Price per person: US$ 66
TOUR B
OLD
CITY OF JERUSALEM, BETHLEHEM, YAD VASHEM
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2000, 08.00 - 17.00
Full day tour
Jerusalem is truly unique. It is certainly one of the world's great cities,
evoking such intensity of feeling in so many different corners of the world.
Step back in time as you travel along the beautiful stone walls built by "Suliman
the Magnificent". Enter the Old City along the route traveled by
generations of pilgrims. Walk through the oriental market: passing jewellery,
textile, souvenir, spice and sweet stores through to the Cardo, with its
colonnaded Roman city streets and reconstructed Jewish Quarter.
Follow the route
taken by the upper city dwellers to the Temple, via the "Western
Wall", the site of both the first and second Temples, the place where
Abraham was called to sacrifice Isaac. Walk the route taken by Jesus as he
carried the cross to Calvary, and the Holy Sepulchre.
Following the road
traveled by Mary and Joseph, you will reach Bethlehem and the beautiful church
built by Emperor Constantine on the site where Mary gave birth to Jesus. You
will also visit Yad Vashem, the International Holocaust Memorial for the 6
million Jews killed during the 2nd World War. Pass by the "Knesset"
(Israel's parliament), and Benno Elkin's famous "Menorah", returning
to your hotel.
Price per person: US$ 44
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