How To Introduce Israel To Your Friends - Not

Here's the schedule of a group that will be wined and dined and feted and shown but one side of the political/ideological elements of the situation. It's all left, progressive, radical and your token Jew is Rabbi Kronish. In Hebron, will they meet any...Jewish residents? In Jerusalem, will they hear anything from a Temple Mount activist?

Anyone in the UK who can help on this?

FODIP: Forum for Discussion of Israel and Palestine

‘QUESTIONS WITHOUT BORDERS’ STUDY TOUR

27th December 2009 – 5th January 2010

Sunday, 27th December
11:55

Depart London Heathrow;
18:55
Arrive Ben Gurion airport, Israel
Overnight:
Neve Shalom – Wahat a-Salam Guesthouse

Monday, 28th December
An Introduction to the Land: its geography and issues of
citizenship and identity; visiting co-existence
projects
08:30
(Meet & intro)
09:00 –
11:00 Wahat al Salam/Neve
Shalom;
11:45
Lod/Ramle ( Merchavim);
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Travel to
Nazareth
16:00
Church of the Annunciation,
Nazareth
18:00
Arrive Kibbutz
Lavi
19:00
Dinner
20:00 Group session

O/N: Galilee (Kibbutz Lavi)

Tuesday, 29th December

The People of the Book; narratives of religious and social identity
8:00 Depart for Ghetto Fighters’ Museum;
9:00 – 12:00 Visit Ghetto
Fighters’ Museum* Museum* Learn about teaching Holocaust to Palestinians in
Israel
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Depart
for Tzfat/ Safed; Jewish Centre and pre 1948 Palestinian village
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Home
Hospitality with Kibbutz members

O/N: Galilee (Kibbutz
Lavi)
Wednesday, 30th December
Going up to the Holy City; its prominence
for the three
faiths
08:00 Departure
09:00 Capernaum
10:00 Kinneret:
Cradle of the
Kibbutz
11:00 Travel
Jordan Valley, up to Jerusalem;
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Jerusalem Old City tour, including Haram el Sharif for Muslim
participants
18:00
Rabbi Kronish Interreligious Relations in
Israel
19:00
Dinner (with Rabbi
Kronish)

O/N: Y.M.C.A. Three Arches Hotel, Jerusalem

Thursday,
31st December
Life on the Seam
All
Day East
Jerusalem

Rabbis for Human Rights

Lunch

City of David and
Silwan

Women of
Jerusalem
18:00
ICCI group: Jewish and Palestinian young adults from E & W
Jerusalem
19:00
Dinner

O/N: Y.M.C.A. Three Arches Hotel,
Jerusalem

Friday, 1st January
Issues of Jewish Israeli identity;
remembering the victims of the Holocaust; time for religious obligations/Old
City; synagogue
visit

08:30
Yad Vashem – The Tent of
Remembrance
10:00
Mount
Herzl
p.m.
Free time for lunch, shopping, reflection; Friday
prayers
17:00
Erev Shabbat – Kol HaNeshama
congregation
18:30
Dinner with families from the congregation
O/N: Y.M.C.A. Three Arches Hotel,
Jerusalem

Saturday, 2nd January
Text study; questions and
discussions; time to reflect
a.m. Late
breakfast
11:00
Group
discussion
13:00
Lunch
14:30
Text
Study
16:00
Free time (possible Palestinian home
hospitality)

O/N: Y.M.C.A. Three Arches Hotel, Jerusalem

Sunday, 3rd
January
Crossing the border: Christian Bethlehem; meeting the people


Pre-dawn Catholic mass
(optional)
08:00
Depart for
Bethlehem
09:00
Christian Service in Lutheran
church
11:00
Meet with
congregation
12:00
Lunch
13:00
To
Hebron
14:30
Meet Ecumenical accompaniers and Palestinian community
workers
18:00
Dinner
19:00
Group discussion

O/N: Sancta Maria Hotel,
Bethlehem

Monday, 4th January
West Bank
life
09:00
Tour of Bethlehem (Church of the Nativity,
etc.)
11:00
Bethlehem International Centre: Ministries of Diyar
Consortium
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Visit refugee
camp
16:00
Travel to
Tel-Aviv/Jaffa
19:00
Dinner

O/N: Armon Yam (Sea Palace) Hotel, Bat
Yam

Tuesday, 5th January
Cross communal relations in Yafo; Tel
Aviv perspectives; final session
09:00
Two narratives in
Jaffa
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Summary
discussion
16:00
Depart for airport
19:20

Depart Ben Gurion Tel Aviv/Yafo;
22:50

Arrive London Heathrow