PRICE $4,300 (for 40+ people):

PRICE $4,480 (for 30-39 people)

PRICE $4,980 (for 20-29 people):

Program cost includes:

• • Round trip Economy class air flight ticket from San Diego to Tel Aviv with British airways
  • All necessary land transportation during the tour includes airport pick up and transfer.
  • Sightseeing in deluxe private air-conditioned motor coach.
  • Accommodations for Hotels – double occupancy – 2 per room
  • Breakfast and dinner at Hotel daily
  • Coffee, tea with breakfast daily
  • Service charges, portage and taxes for accommodations.
  • Lunch in Sea of Galilee
  • Cultural dinner in a Bedouin style restaurant in the Shepherd’s Field
  • Services of a licensed English-speaking guide (daily)
  • All entrance fees
  • 45 minutes Boat ride at Sea of Galilee
  • Entry to Dead Sea
  • Entry to Petra & 700-meter horse ride in Petra
  • Tips for driver and tour guide
  • Admin fees

  NOT INCLUDED:
  Travel insurance, daily lunches except for 1 lunch in Sea of Galilee, exit tax from Jordan to Israel (approximately 10 dinar), costs for items not on table, d’hôte menus such as water or other beverages at dinner, laundry, telephone calls, or services other
  than those specifically mentioned.
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  For Single Supplement Room: Add $900 to price
  Flight Seat Upgrades available for additional price​

Email Encounter@holylandtrust.org

From Biblical times, this program outlines the different historical narratives from religious and secular contexts, exams the cross-sections and discrepancies. From there, we examine how these competing storylines manifest themselves into political realities on the ground for different groups of people and geographical areas.

The Holy Land is a land of diversity. While people oftentimes break this down into binary terms – Israeli/Palestinian – that couldn’t be further from the truth. On this land, we have Palestinian Arabs, which can have a multitude of religious identities – Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and all the rest. There is an Armenian diaspora community with their own unique culture and language they have preserved overtime. There are Bedouin communities, Druze communities which have a very complex relationship within the colonial settler system. Within this, we go further into the analysis of complexity of the Jewish communities that live here, who came to settle on the land from far off places like Iran, Ethiopia, different parts of Europe and the former Soviet Union and how that interplay between the groups lead to a very interesting dynamics during the formation of Israeli politics. Understanding the ways these groups of people have preserved their culture and heritage over time is crucial to how nonviolent resistance works and doesn’t work within systems of oppression.

With our strong network to the NGO community, we organize meetings with the most significant humanitarian and political organizations – international, Israeli, and Palestinian – to give you a broader understanding of the system of settler colonialism, the impact on the native communities. Then in return, we look at different implications of international, indigenous resistance movements, and tactics and strategies.