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Tentative Itinerary
for OU/RCA Israel
Solidarity Mission
Summer, 2002
- July 21 - 28
(The features of this
itinerary are only available to those registered in the optional Touring
Package; all features are to be considered as tentative and subject to
change due to security concerns, and calendar of speakers)
| July 21 |
Departures from JFK, Newark, Los Angeles & Miami (Chicago – July
22) |
| July
22 |
Arrive in Israel; Shacharit, breakfast (JFK Passengers), and tour
at Neot Kedumim Nature Preserve. Welcome
by Aharon Domb, Director-General, Ministry of Tourism.
Continue to Jerusalem, check into Jerusalem Sheraton Plaza Hotel.
Mincha at the Kotel, followed by a welcome cocktail party and
rooftop dinner reception at the Dan Pearl Hotel, with the
beautiful view of the Old City Walls; welcoming message by Ehud
Olmert, Mayor of Jerusalem. Arvit at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel |
| July
23 |
Daf
Yomi, Shacharit, and breakfast at Sheraton Plaza; address by
Rav Benny Elon, former Minister of
Tourism; Head of Yeshivat Beit Orot and the Shimon Hatzadik
Neighborhood Development in Jerusalem. Old City tour,
including: Western Wall Tunnels, Old Jewish Yishuv, Davidson
Center, Ir David, Mincha at newly developing Shimon Hatzadik
Neighborhood. Evening: Cocktail Party and Dinner at Jerusalem
Plaza; Address by Hon. Daniel Kurtzer, US Ambassador to Israel.
Arvit at Sheraton Plaza Hotel. |
| July
24 |
Daf
Yomi, Shacharit, and breakfast at Sheraton Plaza. Address:
Natan Sharansky, Minister of Housing and
Construction, and Deputy Prime Minister. Depart for Eretz
Binyamin – Meet with Pinchas Wallerstein, Head of the Binyamin
Regional Council, during visits to: Psagot, Ofra, and Eli,
several strategically important communities in the Binyamin Area,
with a very special Tu B’av Celebration and Festival at Shilo.
Arvit at Sheraton Plaza. |
| July
25 |
Daf
Yomi, Shacharit, and breakfast at Sheraton Plaza. Address: Eli
Suissa, Minister for Jerusalem Affairs.
Depart for Gush Etzion, with visits to: Kever Rachel, Tekoa, Efrat,
and Hevron. Meetings at each site with community leaders, as well
as terror victims and their families. Mincha at Mearat Hamachpela.
Evening: Dinner at Renaissance Hotel, with Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon. Arvit at Sheraton Plaza. |
| July
26 |
Daf
Yomi, Shacharit, and breakfast at Sheraton Plaza. Reception at
Beit Hanassi with President Moshe
Katzav. Afternoon at leisure for shopping and visiting with
relatives and friends. Evening: Festive Shabbat Services at The
Kotel, followed by Dinner and Zmirot, and Divrei Torah, in the
presence of Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau. |
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Shabbat, July 27 |
Tefilat Shabbat at the Seymour Abrams OU World Center, with Drasha
by Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb,
Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union, followed by
gala kiddush. Famous Jerusalem Sheraton Plaza Shabbat buffet
lunch; Address by Chief Rabbi Lau. Afternoon shiurim at
Sheraton Plaza, followed by Seudah Shlisheet, Arvit and Havdala.
Evening: at leisure. |
| July 28 |
Daf Yomi,
Shacharit, and breakfast at Sheraton Plaza. Check out of Sheraton
Plaza, and depart for Netanya. Visit
Laniado Hospital Trauma Center for explanation of how this
Hospital handles aftermath of terror attacks; visits to patients.
Lunch at Park Hotel in Netanya, site of Pesach Seder attack.
Depart for Ben Gurion Airport (JFK passengers.) Continue to visit
in Tel Aviv/Yaffo, dinner in Petach Tikvah; then on to airport. |
PLEASE NOTE:
This itinerary will be continually updated as the date for the Mission
approaches. Please keep checking this site for the latest available
information.
Solidarity
Mission Information
www.ou.org
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