If there is a commonalty among the tour operators regarding sites, there is also a similarity in the all-encompassing programs each offers. Whichever you prefer, we arrange the catering, photography and anything else you require. While Weinberg and other tour operators, like Tova Gilead of New York, offer their clients a choice of sites, others, like ITAS and the Massachusetts-based Israel Discovery, will use only Masada. Weinberg uses Masada and the sacred and sacrosanct Wall in Jerusalem, as well. Weinberg said his groups reach it by entering the Old City through the Dung Gate rather than the Jaffa Gate.
Families have other choices as well.
While families can certainly indicate particular preferences, they are more likely to accept the recommendations of the trained, licensed Israeli guides who are engaged to lead the tours and who know the religion, history, culture, archaeology and geography of their native land. The carefully planned itineraries, the result of many years of exploring many routes and sites, are generally two weeks in length and cover the country from the Golan Heights in the North to Eilat at the top of the Red Sea at Israel's most southern point. In an off-beat program, the kids might spend a morning digging and excavating at an archaeological site such as the Tel at Maresha, an important town in biblical Judea. Many families have found that a bar or bat mitzvah in Israel turns a child's rite of passage into an unsurpassed experience. All rights reserved.