Israel Tour 2024- Full itinerary – Parkhurst Community church

ISRAEL 2024 – Walking where JESUS walked

Day 1: Saturday 21 September – Arrive in Israel

(Accommodation at Lutheran Guesthouse, Old City Jerusalem)

Day 2: Sunday 22 September

(Accommodation at Lutheran Guesthouse, Old City Jerusalem)

Mount of Olives – view of Old City and Dome of the Rock
Scale model of Jerusalem & Dead Sea scrolls
Lunch in Bethlehem
Herodium – palace built by Herod near Bethlehem
Rabbinical tunnels – underground tunnels running along the original Herodian retaining wall to the Temple Mount

Day 3: Monday 23 September

(Accommodation at Lutheran Guesthouse, Old City Jerusalem)

Wadi Kelt hike – hike between Jerusalem and Jericho that Jesus would have walked up on his way to the Temple – we will walk 1/3 of the route – all downhill for about 2 hours
Lunch in Jericho
Baptismal site – the location where John is thought to have baptized Jesus
Swim in the Dead Sea

Day 4: Tuesday 24 September

(Accommodation at Lutheran Guesthouse, Old City Jerusalem)

Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock
Pool of Bethesda – where Jesus healed the paralytic
Western Wall/Wailing Wall – retaining wall built by Herod the Great – where modern day Jews pray
City of David – ruins of ancient Jerusalem which was built by David
Walk through Hezekiah’s tunnel – 450m tunnel built by Hezekiah to bring water from outside the city wall. Walk back through ancient Roman sewers

Day 5: Wednesday 25 September

(Accommodation at Ron Hotel, Tiberius)

Parables House at Taybeh
Drive through Samaria
Nazareth Village (an open-air museum in Nazareth, that reconstructs and reenacts village life in Galilee in the time of Jesus)
Cultural lunch at Nazareth Village (incl in tour price)
Nazareth precipice – potential site where people of Nazareth wanted to throw Jesus off a cliff

Day 6: Thursday 26 September

(Accommodation at Ron Hotel, Tiberius)

Magdala site and church (Magdala was an ancient Jewish city on the shore of the sea of Galilee – and believed to be the birthplace of Mary Magdalene)
Mount of Beatitudes (walk down the hill where Jesus is believed to have delivered the Sermon on the Mount)
Capernaum – Jesus’ headquarters for ministry
St Peters Fish lunch at En Gev (incl in tour price)
Boat ride on Sea of Galilee back to Tiberius

Day 7: Friday 27 September

(Accommodation at Ron Hotel, Tiberius)

Caesarea Phillipi (also known as Banias) where Jesus asked the disciples ‘who do people say the Son of Man is?’
Dan and Abraham’s Gate – OT site where the tribe of Dan relocated

Day 8: Saturday 28 September

(Accommodation at The Gloria Hotel, Jerusalem)

Beth Shean – ruins of ancient city where King Saul’s body was hung on the wall
Masada – ruins of a fortress built by Herod – his winter palace and the Jewish Fortress where 967 Jews committed mass-suicide rather than surrender to their Roman besiegers in AD74

Day 9: Sunday 29 September

(Accommodation at The Gloria Hotel, Jerusalem)

Bethany (small town on the eastern slopes of the Mt of Olives – visit Lazarus’ tomb)
Mount of Olives – from where the Triumphal entry/Palm Sunday would have started
Dominus Flevit chapel- (on the Mt of Olives where Jesus wept over Jerusalem)

Day 10: Monday 30 September

(Accommodation at The Gloria Hotel, Jerusalem)

Upper Room (room in Mt Zion just outside the old city walls – traditionally held to be the site of the last supper)
Garden of Gethsemane (at the foot of the Mt of Olives where Jesus prayed before his trial and crucifixion)
Caiaphas’ house & St Peter in Gallicantu’s (cock crow) Church (on the slopes of Mt Zion – commemorating Peter’s three denials of Jesus and his repentance and the illegal trial of Jesus staged by Caiaphas and Annas)
Walk the alternative Via Dolorosa from Jewish Quarter

Day 11: Tuesday 1 October