2 Week Israel Itinerary – Overview: 4 Days in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (click to go to section) Shuk Ha’Carmel Jaffa Private tour guide in Jerusalem’s Old City Mahane Yehuda Market Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum Western Wall Tunnels Tour 2 Days in Mitzpe Ramon Star tour Hiking in the makhtesh Sunset at Har Gamal 3 Days …
Even though I’ve had the opportunity to travel to Israel twice before in my life, my parents had never been there. I’d been trying to convince them to go for a few years not necessarily because it’s my favorite place I’ve ever traveled to, but because I feel it’s an important place to travel to …
A few years ago, I found out that Taglit-Birthright changed their rules and I suddenly qualified for their free ten-day trip to Israel. I’m all about free trips, and definitely saw the value of a free flight to another continent (not something that comes around every day), so I signed on with Israel Outdoors for …
The Taglit-Birthright trip is great. It’s a taste of what Israel has to offer. But that’s the thing – it’s just a taste. Your ten days are spent flying around the country on a bus full of sexually charged 20-somethings, waking up at sunrise and almost never sleeping or sleeping well, and running from one …
An old Arab man read my fortune today. I wandered into his shop – a metal jungle of souvenir gems, trinkets, oil lamps, and kiddush cups. He said he could see my soul in my eyes, and that it was as light as air. He assured me he meant light in a pure way, not …
