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Anyone knows of good places to go, for a family ranging between 1 and 17? Mekomos Hakedoshim, fun places, shopping…
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Kever Shmuel Hanavi is a nice overall spot – you can daven, there’s a national park around the kever and it’s one of the best views you can get of Jerusalem. There’s sometimes arab dudes hanging around selling donkey rides and if you want shopping the Ramot mall is 5 minutes down the road.
Since you have little ones with not so sure if it’s shayach but if you want some good kivrei tzadikim you can check out the site Kever Tzadik – if the mods allow the address it’s link removed.
The Begin Museum
Well, since you have internet access, you could do a search of tourist attractions.
I know people who have hired licensed, private tour guides at reasonable (yes, I suppose that term is subjective) prices and felt they it was money well spent.
rabban Shimon Bar yochai
rebbbi Meir Baal Haness
Sefas
Kosel
Chevron with the Mearas Hamachpeila
Kever Rochel
can go on & on. i went to over 100 places on a mission for the USA media
go daven at satmar in herzliya
MA: Rabbi/Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai. “Rabban” is reserved for the Nasi.
here is a complete list of most places i went for the USA media mission i was sent on. feel free to copy & paste the list & then take off places you dont think you would be interested
Day 1
4)Kever of Rabbi Meir Baal Ha’ness
5)Kever of The RAMCHAL (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzatto
6)Kever of Rabbi Akiva
7)Kever of the Rambam
8)Kever of Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zachai
9)Kever of the S’hla Hakadosh
10)Kever of Rabbi Yonason Ben Uzie-l
11)The Ari’s Shul
12)The Ari’s Mikva
13)The Ari’s Kever
14)Kever of Rabbi Shloma Halevi Alkebitz
(author of L’cha Dodi said in Kabolas Shabbos)
15)Kever of the Alshich
16)Kever of the Bais Yosef (Author of the Shulchan Aruch)
17)Kever of the Prophet Hoshea
18)Kever of Rabbi Pinchos Ben Yair
19)Kever of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Author of the Zohar)
20)Rabbi Tzvi Kaplan’s Yeshiva
day 2:
1)The Old City of Jerusalem
2)The Jaffa Gate
3)The Kosel Tunnels & its History
4)The Kosel Hamaaravi-the Western Wall
day 3:
1)Kever of the Prophet Shmuel
2)Kever of the Ohr Hachaim
3)Kever of the Prophet Zecharya
5)Kever of Shimon Hatzaddik
6)Kever Rochel
7)Me’aras Ha’machpeila
8)Avraham Avinu’s Shul
9)Kevorim of Yishai & Rus
day 4:
Rabbonim of Bnei Brak
1)Rabbi Ahron Leib Steinman Sh’lit
2)Rabbi Nissan Karelitz Sh’lita
3)Ponovitz Yeshiva
4)Rabbi Gershon Eidelstein Sh’lita
(Rosh Yeshiva Ponovitz Giving a Shiur)
5)Ponovitz Kollel
6)Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky Sh’lita
(and at the Lederman shul)
day 5:
1)The Golan Heights Winery
2)The U.N. Headquarters (between Israel & Syria)
3)Israeli Bunker
4)The Syrian Border
5)Banias Waterfalls
6)The Lebanon Border [and entire city behind it]
day 6:
1)Mir Yeshiva
3)Bresliv Yeshiva
4)Ministry of Education & Culture Building
5)Rabbi Elyashiv Sh’lita (giving his daily Shiur)
6)Rabbi Yisroel Luria Speaking
(Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Bais Avraham-Slonim)
Day 7:
1)Yeshiva of Brisk (Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik Sh’lita)
3)Yeshiva of Brisk (Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Sh’lita)
day 8:
1)Tisha B’av night at the Kosel Hamaaravi-the Western Wall
(People Sleeping, sitting on the floor etc…)
day 9:
1)Tisha B’av at the Kosel Hamaaravi-the Western Wall
day 10:
1)Ein Gedi National Park (caves & waterfalls etc…)
2)Mesada National Park
3)King Hurdus 3 Level Palace (including history of Mikva,
Shul, Storage houses the Gedolim Stored food before
they commited suicide & the roman camps around it
PLUS more…)
4)The Dead Sea-Yam Hamelech (Kosher swimming etc…)
5)The pillar of salt in Sedom that was Lot’s wife
day 11:
1)The Government of the State of Israel
a)Bank of Israel
b)Ministry of Foreign Affairs
c)Prime Ministers Office Building
d)Ministry of Finance
e)The Knesset
f)Riots in front of the Prime Ministers building
2)Yeshiva Merkaz Harav (Attack in the Library & results…)
enjoy your tour of the history of Eretz Yisroel
MA: Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was a Nasi. So he’s Rabban, not Rabbi.
As far as the Begin Center, that’s actually cool not because of the center itself but because of the Bayis Rishon-era catacombs behind it. One of the coolest places I’ve ever been.
That’s a really wide age range, but in case any of this helps- (like, I don’t think your 1 year old is gonna like any of these, but here goes)
Nachal Chalilim hike (very close to Yerushalayim and even accessible via bus, lots of fun, ends up in a cool cave)
Ir David/water tunnels- just make sure your kids aren’t afraid of the dark
Genesis Land- haven’t been there in years, but when my family went ages 5-12 enjoyed it
Ein Gedi- little kids can stay by the lower pools, older kids can go higher
Gamla- the most beautiful place in Israel (and apparently Netanyahu agrees, if that helps) and the little kids can stay in the nature reserve while the older kids hike to the Bayis Sheni-era city. One of my favorite places in Israel- warning, it’s in the Golan, which is also one of my favorite places in Israel incidentally
Water sports in Teveria
Biblical Zoo- really just a nice zoo, but it has pesukim relating to the animals which is a nice tie in
Masada- cool, but you will probably fry
Hula Swamp- nice nature reserve with different kids of bikes for rent
Temple Mount Sifting Project- 10NIS a person and very very cool, sifting through dirt from Har HaBayis (check with your LOR, I guess) and helping the archaeological effort while finding things ranging from bones from korbanos to Turkish cannonballs.
The Talmudic Village in Katzrin (also in the Golan) is quite cool as well, though haven’t been in a while.
Wander the Old City, including the “Fifth Quarter,” the roofs. Lots of fun, just be wary.
This thread is making me semsick 🙁
shluffin
im not surprised you should be “shluffin” sleeping
have a good night
LF: The Golan winery is pretty cool. And little kids might like Mini Israel. And Ein Gedi is pretty cool also.
I love when people assume we’re in the same time zone just because we all type in the same language.
Just a suggestion, Seeing graves stones and yeshivas might be a bit boring especially for the younger ones, you either might want to split up for those events or tone them down.
If every CR member donated 1 Shekel, Joseph might be out millions of dollars.
Lol, Sam.
Personally, I found the description of Genesis Land a little suspect. People dressing up as Avrohom ovinu etc welcoming you into their tent … it seemed dodgy hashkafically.
But near there is the gorgeous Wadi Kelt / Nachal Parat which is not far from Yr’lm. It’s a great shaded walk in a stream. Behind green line though so check security status. We did it with a 22 month old child.
wherever you end up going, always remember that you are in a country ruled by evil zionists and you as a jew are not required to obey their rules, when i go to israel, at the immigration, i always say that eretz yisrael is our land and i am entitled to come for whatever reason i want, i never tell them why i a m coming, i have had some difficulty in the past with this such as being abused physically and being interrogated but we must remain strong in our commitment to torah and mitzvis and the zionists will not stop us.
Didn’t know there was a branch of NK in Crawley.
Geordie, the opinion expressed by RoC is hardly unique to NK.
Being rude to an immigration officer in any country you are not a citizen of is a stupid idea, they have the right to deny you entry and force you to return on the next plane out to your home country.
There is no right to enter any country except the one you own a passport from
Israel supposedly doesn’t deny entry to any Jew.
Joseph: That’s true. Then again, if you deny Israel’s existence, the British Mandate won’t let you in.
To all those who don’t like my “fundamentalist” outlook- i hope you won’t be visiting tomorrows Gay pride event R’L in Yerushalayim, judging by your liberal opinions, I wouldn’t be surprised if i saw you there tomorrow- (if i happened to pass by on the way to the ohr hachaims z.l kever)
Israel supposedly doesn’t deny entry to any Jew.
Not true
Israel famously deported the Mobster Meyer Lansky who tried to make Aliyah
Israel also deported “Crazy” Eddie Antar who was in trouble with the feds
Also Sometimes Israel will not allow Kahanists to enter the country
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