You can have the experience of a lifetime in Israel with an amazing group of friends for the low low price of $499! (This includes airfare, room, board, and all entrance fees and is open to all students regardless if they’ve participated in Birthright or any other organized tours)

MAIMONIDES ISRAEL GETAWAY
(dates may change slightly)

APRIL 29, 2007 - MAY 17, 2007  

JUNE 25, 2007 - JULY 12, 2007

This trip is open to all students regardless if they've participated in the Maimonides program on their campus or on organized programs to Israel.

You pay just $499 with a full scholarship (40 available); $899 with a partial scholarship. The full price of the trip is $2499 (all prices include airfare to/from NY, room, board, and all entrance fees.) Speak with your JAAM Rabbi to take advantage of this special offer.

To receive an application, or if you have any questions, call 734-996-2000.

Here is a list of some of the sites we’ve seen in the past:

• The Knesset
• Climb the Ramparts of the Old City Walls
• Explore the Jewish Quarter
• Tour the Four Sephardi Synagogues
• Discover Batei Machse - financed by Baron de Rothschild to house the influx of Eastern European refugees
• Investigate the Kabbalists' Alley
• Visit the Mount of Olives
• Experience the Western Wall - the Kotel Ham'arivi
• The Western Wall Tunnels
• Southern Temple Wall Excavations
• Ponder the Model of Herod's Jerusalem during the Second Temple period
• Tour of Mount Scopus - archeological site of a Roman camp during the siege of the Second Temple
• Bab El Wad - the pre 1948 Jerusalem / Tel Aviv road
• British police station at Latrun - site of one of fiercest battles in the fall of Jerusalem
• The Shaar HaGai Mountain Road
• Castel - former Crusader Fortress
• In the Footsteps of the Fighters - 1967 War of Liberation of Jerusalem
• Nebi Samuel - Burial site of the prophet Samuel
• Gibon, Beit Cahnina, Shuafat - strategic locations conquered by the Harel Armored Brigade before the attack on Ammunition Hill
• The Museum and Trenches of Ammunition Hill
• Mount Scopus - site of Haddasah Hospital and Hebrew University
• Tour of the old demarcation between East and West Jerusalem
• History of a Nation
• Yad Vashem - the National Holocaust Museum
• Tel Aviv
• The Diaspora Museum
• Visit the graves of the Maccabeans at Modi'in
  Witness the rebirth of the city of Chashmonaim
• The Judean Desert
• Wander through over the Flour Cave
• Experience the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve
• Climb to the top of Masada
• Float in the Dead Sea
• Ride the Mamshit Camel trek into the Negev Desert
• Hike the Snapir Trail leading to the top of the Great Crater - Ein Yokneam
• Safed the Mystical City - Experience its Kabbalistic and Historical Signifigance
• Greet the "Shabbat Queen" in the orchards where L'cha Dodi was composed by Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz and sung by the Arizal and his students
• Explore the mysterious alleyways of Safed
• Tour Historical Safed throughout the ages, from its Biblical origins until the modern State of Israel
• Amuka - burial place of Yonason ben Uziel, where many come and pray for Divine assistance in meeting their spouse
• Meron - burial place of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, author of the Zohar
• Peki'in - site where Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai hid from the Romans for 12 years
• Hiking in the Galil
• Scale the Arbel Mountains
• Discover the Ancient City of Tiberias
• Swim the Kineret
• Wadi Amad - the Trail of the Mystics, hike through the rapids
• Footloose in the Golan
• The Majestic Snow-Capped Hermon Mountains
• View Kunetra - Syrian ghost city
• Hike the magnificent trails of Wadi Yehudia and Debora Falls
• Learn the secret behind the Golan's eucolyptus trees
• Wander in the Talmudic village of Katzrin
• Wine tasting at the internationally acclaimed Golan Wineries
• Climb Gamla, "the Masada of the North"
• Inner-tube down the Chisbon
• Chispin, a former Syrian army base
• Swim Wadi Daboria, Israel's second highest waterfall