Givah Viewpoint and King Saul’s Palace

Explore Tel El Ful (Givah), home to the remains of King Saul’s ancient palace and steeped in both grandeur and tragedy. This significant archaeological site reveals the legacy of Israel’s first king, set against a backdrop of sweeping views. Walk among the ruins and reflect on the ancient events and the tragic history that unfolded here. Additionally, see the unfinished palace of King Hussein of Jordan, a testament to more recent history.

Beit El Archeological Site

On Yaakov’s flight from Esav, he had his famous dream with the ladder and Hashem promised him that he would return him to this land. The very same area in which Avraham and Sara pitched their tent with four doors, later Yeravam Ben Navat built his mikdash.  And we will stand where this occurred…on the very same ground.  Thousands of years later in the exact same place that Hashem promised us Eretz Yisrael, modern day pioneers are rebuilding the land. 

Tel Shiloh 

In the center of the hill country of Ephraim was discovered the first capital of Israel, from over 3,000 years ago!  Walking through the excavations of Tel Shiloh is like walking through a time machine back to the period of the Shoftim when Eli HaCohen was Cohen Gadol and the Navi Shmuel was just a lad.  Here the Mishkan stood for 369 years as the spiritual center of Am Yisrael and the resting place of the shekhinah. One can almost smell the Ketoret.

Har HaGerizim and Overlook to Shechem

Mount Gerizim is situated over the city of Shechem (modern day Nablus), where both Avraham and Yakov built altars to Hashem upon their entrance to Eretz Yisrael, it will be here that the blessings and the curses will be pronounced in front of the entire nation upon the day they entered Eretz Yisrael with Yehoshua Bin Nun, just before they buried Yosef in his tomb below.  Today Nablus is an extremely hostile village in Area A and off limits to Jewish travelers but from Har HaGerizim we will be able to view Kever Yosef and, daven by his kever even if it’s only in the distance.

Meet the Samaritans

In 721 BCE the Ten Tribes of Israel were exiled from Samaria never to be heard from again, and in their place were imported a foreign nation who proved to be a giant enemy to Israel.  After a conversion that was later revoked the Samaritans built two temples on Mount Gerizim, which were subsequently destroyed.  We will explore the archeological ruins of their Temples, before meeting the Samaritans who are Israel’s smallest minority group, and perhaps one of the most ancient peoples in the world.

Other Options Include:

• Elon Moreh
• Visit a Tefillin Factory
• Visit a Secret Boutique Winery in Esh Kodesh Outpost
• Blacksmith Workshop
• Israel Dog Unit
• Jeep Tour of the Judean Desert