Land of Milk and Honey:
Picking olives and making oil in an authentic oil press.
Program: Pick olives at Tapuach
Make olive oil at the olive press at Achiya hilltop community (outpost).
Extract honey from hives at Tapuach.
Time: 4 hours
Season: October-November
Land of the Eastern Mountains:
Mount Kabir-Abraham's Mountain: A dramatized meeting with the first Hebrew in the Land. Agricultural village and organic homestead at Itamar and view of Biblical landscape.
Program: Short hike to the overlook on Mount Kabir. Dramatization of a meeting with Abraham the patriarch.
Itamar. Visit Zimmerman Farm and Givaot Olam homestead. There will be an opportunity to taste organic produce and products.
Time: 4 hours
Season: Year round (except stormy winter days)
"You will again plant vineyards on the Mountains of the Shomron":
Fulfilling the words of the Prophet Jeremiah (31:4-6).
Program: Planting grapevines in vineyards atop Har Bracha.
Discussion of the parable of Yotam at the summit of Mount Grizim.
Tour of the Mount Grizim excavations.
Meeting with Samaritans
Time: 3 hours
Season: Year round
"Searching for my Brothers":
In the footsteps of Joseph searching for his brothers.
Program: Visit Shavei Shomron and then, in the footsteps of Joseph, travel North from Shechem (Nablus) to overlook view of the capital of the Kingdom of Israel and the railway station.
Visit isolated Shomron community of Homesh and meet with “brother settlers”
Visit Sanur artists' village and galleries.
Visit Mevo Dotan, settlement that offers a view of the Dotan valley and Joseph's pit, site of the sale of Joseph by his brothers.
Time: 5 hours.
Season: Year round
Yakir Zoo:
Program: Tour a zoo of animals native to Israel, where the animals roam free. Walk around inside the open enclosures, feed the animals, hear interesting explanations of the animals and participate in the preparation of goat cheese.
The Coastal Strip, as seen from the Shomron:
From the Western Shomron, view the coastal strip and the commercial center of the State of Israel.
Program: Peduel – view the Nahal Shiklo preserve, look out over the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, see Ben Gurion Airport, Lod and more.
Alfei Menashe – from the “balcony of the country” look our over the metropolitan Tel Aviv area, the Sharon, the Green Line and the security fence zone, and more.
Zufim – from the Shneir Overlook view metropolitan Tel Aviv, the Sharon, the Green Line/security fence and more.
Avnei Hefetz – from the Mount Raban overlook view metropolitan Tel Aviv, the Northern Sharon, Netanya to Haifa.
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