Sample Itinerary

Itinerary is an example only. Actual Perspectives itinerary may look different.

(leaving Thursday from Jerusalem)

Danny leading a tour of the fence

7:50                 Meet at the bus at Gan Hapaamon, Liberty Bell Park

8:00 – 9:15 Visit to Jerusalem’s Machon Meir Yeshiva, learn about legacy of Rabbis Avraham and Yehuda Hakohen Kook

9:45 – 11:00   Talk with top Jerusalem based Peace Now activists

11:30 – 13:30 Tour of the fence/barrier with Danny, the prime architect of the route of the fence

13:30 – 3:00 Lunch and travel to Nitzan

Gush Katif Center

3:00 – 4:30  Visit to Nitzan and hearing the story of former Gush Katif residents living in caravans, see the newly established Gush Katif Legacy Center

5:00 – 6:30 talk by Michal, who taught about the conflict to Israeli high school students in the Gaza border region. She used a novel textbook in her classroom that contained within it both Israeli and Palestinian narratives, until its use was banned by the Education Ministry.

7:00 – 8:00 Dinner in Cafe Yaelin Sderot that employs at risk youth

8:30 – 9:45 Facilitated group reflection session

Overnight at Kibbutz Nir’am

Friday

Sderot

7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast & Shacharit

8:00 – 9:30  Tour of (Southern Development Town of) Sderot and meeting with local residents through Sderot Media Center

Sderot's fortified playground

9:45 – 11:00 Meeting with Sderot ‘Other Voice‘ peace activists

12:15 – 1:15 Lunch & facilitated group reflection session in Nokdim

1:20 – 2:20 Visit to Nokdim settlement in Gush Etzion, meeting with religious and secular residents (NB: Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman lives in Nokdim)

3:00  Return to Jerusalem