75 U S A ( To l l - f r e e ) 1-877-381-2914 E m a i l info@theculturalexperience.com Cross Periods Saladin broke the Crusaders. Overnight in Upper Galilee. Day 6 – The Golan. Travel to Tel Faher, a key battle during the Six Day War. See where a handful of Israeli tanks held up a Syrian assault column at Oz 77 during the famous Battle of the Vale of Tears in 1973. Thence to ancient Gamla mercilessly taken from the Jews by the Romans in the 67 AD (this is an optional walk). Check-in to our Jerusalem hotel for 5 nights. Day 7 – Jerusalem. An orientation of Jerusalem from Ammunition Hill, site of the Israeli paratroopers’ most famous battle of the 1967 war. Walk the ramparts of the Old City that have been assaulted by Assyrian, Crusader and Israeli alike. End with a walk down from the Mount of Olives to the Western Wall to see the Friday night prayer service. Day 8 – The Dead Sea. Visit Masada, site of thefamoussiegethatendedtheGreatJewish Rebellion against Rome, walk through a 2,000 year old Roman siege camp then take a relaxing swim and lunch at the Ein Gedi spa. Day 9 - The South. Visit Yad Mordechai where a small group of fighters held off the Egyptian army during the 1948 War. Continue in the footsteps of the Egyptian army to Gesher Ad Halom, their farthest northward advance in 1948. At Tel Lachish see the ruins of what was the second largest city in Judea and site of the largest Assyrian siege ramp in existence. Our final visit is to Latrun, the site of several key battles during the 1948 war and which today houses a spectacular international collection of tanks. Day 10 - The South. Visit Beersheba where General Allenby’s forces broke through the Ottoman lines in 1917, the Israeli Air Force Jerusalem Dome of the Rock Jaffa Museum, the remains of Tel Sheva, biblical home of Abraham and the Australian Light Horse Memorial. End the day at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the holocaust. Day 11 - Jerusalem Hills and Departure. Visit Tel Azeikah, overlooking the Ela Valley, where David and Goliath are believed to have fought each other. Back to Tel Aviv for our return flight to London.