Day 1 Tuesday WELCOME TO HOLY ISRAEL! VIP Welcome at Ben Gurion Airport After landing, a SHALOM ISRAEL TOURS representative will be waiting to welcome you as you exit the plane. Your party will be transported in a private vehicle to the flight staff passport control, continue to luggage identification, and transfer to your chauffeur. […]
How to Affect Children in Israel from Your Living Room; Israel Bar and Bat Mitzvah Tour ideas with Ahava When you come to Israel with your family and your little one (and your growing, bigger ones) on your Israel Bar Mitzvah or Israel Bat Mitzvah tour, you will, understandably, expect to gain a lot from […]
Going Back to the Source; a Western Wall Bar Mitzvah The question is why? Why would you go back to the destruction of the First and Second Temple in order to celebrate your son’s bar mitzvah, to celebrate that interesting duality of both freedom and responsibility that he acquires at such a young age? The […]
A Natural Biblical Landscape Bar Mitzvah Some people like to celebrate their Bar/Bat Mitzvah in the center of town, at some nearby hotel, at the Western wall, or in their family’s synagogue. And still others, those nature-loving amongst us particularly, yearn to return to their roots, in the midst of nature that is. Luckily for […]
Be a Part of the Simcha; Volunteer to Help Victims of Terror When you visit Israel on your Bar or Bat Mitzvah family tour, you can expect to enter a serene and peaceful country. You might wonder :This is the place where violence and terror is discussed on television networks from your country of origin? […]
Challah. That warm, heavenly bread that is the necessary bridge from our hectic work week to that slow, comfortable place within us that is Shabbat. Challah, to us Jews, is Jewish bread, an ancient, ancestral commodity that cannot be forgotten. You may wonder, what exactly is the connection, with this delicious carbodhydrated- rich sustenance to […]
You’re never alone when you’re surrounded by family . And while traveling in your home away from home on your Israel tour, within 2 to four minutes, someone will be there to help you out. When a bomb or an accident ( Gd forbid) occurs on Israel soil, the Jewish response, focused on allievating pain and […]
Visitors to the Holy Land usually start with a trip to the Kotel, also known as the Wailing Wall or Western Wall. The Kotel is the last remaining wall of the Temple Mount, upon which the Jewish Temple stood in antiquity. Since the Temple Mount itself is mostly off-limits to Jews, the Kotel is considered […]
Crusaders, busy Israeli highways, and a beautiful national park. Doesn’t seem to go together now, does it? And yet, straight off the busy Jerusalem- Tel Aviv highway, you can find a luscious path of ground that hosts spectacular lawns, picturesque picnic grounds for all of your Israel photo opportunity needs, and springs bursting from the […]
Flying high on an Israel tour is to be expected. Long after the prophecy that we would return to Israel on wings of eagles, we find ourselves boarding our El Al flights and flying like birds to the Holy Land, via the latest technology. And when you’re at the Western Wall, well you better hold […]