I want to go for a tour of Israel?

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OK so i was hoping someone had an idea for me.. I want to go to England and Israel and figured i might as well go to both places at once... i may be going alone (which i don't want to) so if i go alone i think maybe a tour would be best. Also i want to go to tel aviv and beersheva (because my friend is from there and i want to go to his city(even though he won't be there) england i can always go later but definatly i want to go to israel but i juist don't know where to go and what to do all on my own. what do you guys think... ?

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If you are going alone--a tour is a good idea. You will land in Tel Aviv--so no worries there.
This site has the best travel information with links to all kinds of tours.

There is so much to see and do in Israel that you want to have a plan.
Ots awesome and life changing...........

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See a travel agent.
unless u wanna get bombed by terrorist dont go
Beersheva's a waist of time. Believe me, it's best viewed in your rear-view mirror. It's ugly, remote and there's nothing interesting there.

As far as tours are concerned, I'd recommend Egged's tours. Egged is Israel's national bus line, but it also offers excellent and reasonably priced guided tours.

I recommend this one, if you are going to limit yourself to a week (which is far too short): 7777 - Weekly Tour - Israel crown Jewels

7 Days 6 nights or 6 days 5 nights. Departures:Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv Hotels 07:15, Bus Terminal - Arlozorov Railway Station - 07:45
Jerusalem Hotels: tours 221, 222, 230, 236 - 09:00
tours 240, 258, 260 - 06:00

Holyland Diamonds:

Jerusalem old and new, Masada, Dead Sea, Ein Gedi Hot Springs Nazareth, Capernaum, Sea of Galilee, Tiberias, Galilee, Golan Heights Caesarea, Haifa, Acre, Rosh Hanikra, Tel-aviv, Jafa.

* H.B (Dinner and Breakfast included)
* Guiding in English

Price per person f.c. from 799$

Information & Reservation: 972-3-9203998/19

Otherwise, I would do the day tours individually. Also, I recommend setting aside a few days to go scuba diving/snorkeling in the resort city of Eilat on the Red Sea.
Itay obviously knows his stuff but I think it's too much to do in a week, just rushing around. And very expensive. And Eilat too, at the opposite end of the country?

I think you'd have a much more interesting and informative time just focussing on Jerusalem and Bethlehem, which is only five miles from Jerusalem but like a different world, as it's in the Occupied (Palestinian) Territories.

E-mail me at brianinchina2003@yahoo.co.uk and I'll send you more information. I can even set you up with friends who could be free guides and hosts in both cities.
*** What Did You Know About Israel?

1. Did you know that non-Jewish Israelis cannot buy or lease land in Israel? A Jew from any country in the world is guaranteed citizenship in Israel, while the Palestinians who have been there for centuries are oppressed and persecuted.

2. Did you know that instead of sewing an insignia on clothing to distinguish race (like the Germans did to the Jews before WW2), Palestinian license plates in Israel are color coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews?

3. Did you know that East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights are all considered by the entire world community, including the United States and the United Nations, to be occupied territory and NOT part of the State of Israel?

4. Did you know that Israel allots 85% of the water resources for Jews, and the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories? For example in Hebron, 85% of the water is set aside for about 400 Jewish settlers, while the remaining 15% is distributed among Hebron's 120, 000 Palestinians?

5. Did you know that the United States awards Israel $5 billion in aid each year from American tax dollars?

6. Did you know that US aid to Israel ($3.0 billion annually) exceeds the aid the US grants to the entire African continent? This aid is used both to buy American weaponry and to buy arms made in Israel.

7. Did you know that Israel is awaiting an additional $4 billion worth of American military hardware, including new F-16s and Apache and Blackhawk helicopters. As Israel's main ally and supporter internationally, the United States is committed to maintaining the Jewish state's "qualitative edge" in weapons over its neighbors.

8. Did you know that the U.S. administration has notified Congress on numerous occasions that Israel has violated the rules on how US-supplied weapons are used? (In 1978, 1979 and 1982 during fighting in Lebanon, and once after Israel's bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981.)

9. Did you know that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections from its sites?

10. Did you know that high-ranking military officers in the Israeli Defense Forces have admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war have been summarily executed by the Israeli forces?

11. Did you know that Israel blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a US warship in international waters (the USS Liberty), killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors and the US did nothing about it?

12. Did you know that Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council Resolutions?

13. Did you know that Israel is explicitly dedicated to the policy of maintaining a distinct Jewish character?

14. Did you know that Israel's current Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, was found by an Israeli court to be "personally and directly responsible" for the Sabra and Shatilla massacre in Lebanon where more than a thousand innocent Palestinian men, women, and children were axed to death or lined up and shot in cold blood?

15. Did you know that on May 20, 1990, a group of unarmed Palestinian laborers were lined up and murdered by an Israeli solider as they sat waiting for transportation back to Gaza? The terrified laborers who gathered in an area of southern Israel known as Rishon Lezion (known to Palestinians by its Arabic name Oyon Qara) handed their ID cards to the Israeli soldier. The soldiers ordered the distressed laborers to kneel down and face the ground and unexpectedly showered them with a barrage of bullets, killing seven and wounding many others. Needless to say, the soldier was not charged with any crime.

16. Did you know that until as recently as 1988, Israelis were permitted to run "Jews Only" job ads?

17. Did you know that the Israeli Foreign Ministry pays six US public relations firms to promote a "positive image" of Israel to the American public?

18. Did you know that Sharon's coalition government includes a party--Molodet--which advocates ethnic cleansing by openly calling for the forced expulsion of all Palestinians from the occupied territories?

19. Did you know that recently-declassified documents indicate that David Ben-Gurion approved of the forced expulsion of Arabs from all Palestininan territory in 1948?

20. Did you know that the former chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, who is also a founder and spiritual leader of the religious Shas party (Israel's third largest political party) openly advocates a 'Final Solution' to annihilate the Palestinians? Speaking at the widely broadcast sermon marking the last Passover, he declared of the Palestinians: "The Lord shall return their deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world. It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable."

21. Did you know that Palestinian refugees make up the largest portion of the refugee population in the world?

22. Did you know that Palestinian Christians are considered the "living stones" of Christianity because they are the direct descendants of the disciples of Jesus Christ? And the Palestinian Christians stand united with their Muslim brethren in the struggle against the Israeli occupation.

23. Did you know that despite a ban on torture by Israel's High Court of Justice, torture has continued unabated by Shin Bet interrogators on Palestinian prisoners?

24. Did you know that despite every Israeli attempt to disrupt Palestinian education, Palestinians have the highest ratio of PhDs per capita in the world?

25. Did you know that the right of self-determination is guaranteed to every human being under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [December, 1948], yet Palestinians were/are expected to negotiate for this right under the Oslo Accords?

26. Did you know that despite what is widely perpetuated and written in the history books that the Arabs attacked Israel in the 1967 war, it was Israel who attacked the Arab countries first, capturing Jerusalem and the West Bank, and called the attack a pre-emptive strike?

27. Did you know that, as an occupying power, Israel has a particular responsibility under the Geneva Conventions to protect Palestinian civilians?

28. Did you know that, despite Ariel Sharon's public call for a unilateral ceasefire; Israeli soldiers have not stopped shooting, killing or bulldozing Palestinian homes? The most recent example of this is the murder of three innocent women who were shot by an Israeli tank as they sat in their tent!

29. Did you know that the Zionists have been trying to destroy Masjid al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock for the last 50 years by digging underground tunnels beneath the sites to weaken its foundation causing it to collapse?

30) Did you know that Nelson Mandela called the Israeli government an apartheid regime, just like South Africa used to be?

31) There are 3 UN resolutions that ask for Israel to give the Palestinians back the land.

*** Know More about Israel: (Terrible photos of killed people included)

1- Video show Israeli crimes on Quanah in 1996: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...

2- Israeli Crimes: ( Details and Numbers of the Nazi Jews activities)
http://www.deathmasters.com/

3- Jenin Massacres:
http://www.voicesofpalestine.org/massacr...

4- WANTED for conspiracy to commit mass murder, war crimes, genocide and violation of Geneva conventions:
http://www.deathmasters.com/gallery.htm...

5- Israeli Attack "Terribly Wrong", US Response: Status Quo, World: Two-State, Peace Plan
by Mike Leon
http://www.counterpunch.org/leon0805.htm...

6- That is funny photo:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6886/...

7- Who are the real Terrorists? (By: Hal Turner)
http://www.halturnershow.com/israeliatro...

*** Notes:
1- Palestinians have to deal with American-made most modern weapons (apache, M16, all sophisticated missiles, and everything that USA can give). They are the most sophisticated weapons that are ever used against defenseless civilians in history. Israelis kill Palestinian brutally, they buried people ALIVE in the rubble of their homes, or shot them in the head. If you don't believe me, open this link: http://www.halturnershow.com/israeliatro...

2- Israel also bombs Palestinian power plants, making all Palestinians live in darkness. Palestinian government cannot build the new plants, at they have no money because Palestinians taxpayers' money is held by Israel and Israel doesn't want to return it to Palestine. So there will be no electricity in Palestine, at least for next few years.

3- Violent actions by some Muslims are strongly reported all over the world while racist and violent Christians (do not mention Israeli massacres in Palestine and Lebanon) are under reported or at best not linked to the religion of the offender. Why? No one said that Christianity is violent after Abou Gharib prison crimes in Iraq done by the USA solders, no one says that Judaism is violent after (I can not count the number of massacres done by Israelis).

4- If your fatherland is treated that way, would you fight back? Palestinians are trying to fight back with whatever they can, but they are marked terrorist because of that. I wonder why people don't mark Israel as terrorist.

5- Israelis think they are the CHOSEN people by God, but unfortunately they work for Satan. They are the servant of Satan.
I'm from Israel and I live in Beersheva because I study here... you realy dont have any reason to come to beersheva
Tel Aviv!!!!! you'll have a beach\sea... many clubs
Eilat!!!!! again sea and many stuf you can do
the dead sea!!! cool place!! trust me!!!