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Visitors to Israel based in Jerusalem can join a wide variety of tours from Jerusalem to destinations across the country. There are one-day tours and multi-day tours that have pick-up points in Jerusalem. You will be met at the Jerusalem pick-up point and returned there at the end of the tour. For an additional fee, you could end the tour with a drop-off at the airport. Even if you are going on a tour within Jerusalem you will still get the complimentary pick-up and drop-off service. Among the destinations visited by tours from Jerusalem, there is Bethlehem, Jericho, the Dead Sea, Masada, and Tel Aviv. There are even tours from Jerusalem to destinations further away such as the Galilee, Golan Heights, Rosh HaNikra, Haifa, Acre, and Caesarea. There are tours from Jerusalem geared specifically towards Christian sites and others that focus on Jewish heritage sites. There are even tours from Jerusalem to Petra in Jordan. Tours from Jerusalem are available in English and with prior arrangement, there are also tours in Spanish, German, Russian, and French to most destinations. There are tours from Jerusalem every day of the week (depending on the destination). Standard-size group tours, smaller group tours, and private tours all travel in air-conditioned vehicles and are accompanied by a professional tour guide. When you take a tour from Jerusalem to Jordan or Bethlehem and Jericho that are under the Palestinian Authority tour representatives will assist with the border crossing and you will be in the safe hands of a licensed local tour guide. By basing yourself in Jerusalem you benefit from the incredible surroundings of the City of Gold and you can still take advantage of convenient tours across the country. For any inquiries, feel free to contact our 24/7 customer service staff.

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Christian Israel Tour Package, 8 Days

• In-depth Cultural
• Fully Guided
• Sightseeing
• Christmas & New Year

Places You’ll See

• See world famous religious sites and Christian landmarks
• Float in the Dead Sea at the lowest point on Earth
• Visit Masada, the symbol of the ancient kingdom of Israel
• Experience Bethlehem, the birth town of Jesus
• Discover the lush countryside and Sea of Galilee
• Introduction
• Day 1 Welcome to Israel
• Day 2 Nazareth, Capernaum and Sea of Galilee
• Day 3 Caesarea, Acre and Rosh Hanikra
• Day 4 Bethlehem and Jericho
• Day 5 Jerusalem Old and New
• Day 6 Jerusalem In the Footsteps of Jesus
• Day 7 Masada and the Dead Sea
• Day 8 Last Day in Israel

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Our company employs highly experienced government licensed tour guides. It offers tours in an extensive range of languages and all its vehicles are approved by the Ministry of Tourism to afford customers top comfort sightseeing. Bein Harim Tourism Services LTD provides tourists with an extensive range of creative solutions. The company’s competitive advantage is its flexibility, taking the form of personalized private car tours as well as the unique opportunity to join a small and intimate group tour. Yitzchak Ben Ari – the founder and the owner of the company, is a 30-year veteran of the field and brings with him a vast and rich accumulation of knowledge of the business.He established Bein Harim Tourism Services LTD in 1993 and the company has grown from strength to strength during its existence. Bein Harim Tourism Services is the perfect choice for you.

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• Overall Rating Excellent 4.4
• Itinerary Excellent 4.5
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• Accommodation Excellent 4.3
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• Tour Operator Bein Harim Tourism Services 4.3
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• A Anonymous · 22nd September 2019 The tour was a great way to see the Christian side of Israel. All the guides were great and super knowledgeable, especially Amir and Itamar. The hotels were above expectations. Trip date: September 2019
• A Anonymous · 22nd September 2019 The tour was a great way to see the Christian side of Israel in 8 days. All the guides were great an super knowledgeable, especially Amir and Itamar. Hotels were above expectations. Trip date: September 2019

• WM Willie · 13th August 2019 Improved communication via testing. also exactly what menu is included that is included in tour Trip date: August 2019

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My girlfriend and I arrived in Jerusalem on 22nd December not having arranged any day tours. We stayed at the Jaffa Gate Hostel in the Old City for 5 days and picked up a brochure for Bein Harim Tours. Not having many choices available at the time at such short notice, we decided on the day trip to Masada and the Dead Sea with Bein Harim.

Tour 3: Massada and The Dead Sea

We had to be at the David Citadel Hotel at 5:50am in the morning to meet the tour and had to sit till 7:30am until a taxi arrived and took us to meet the tour minibus at the Mount of Olives. A whole 1.5hrs waiting in the hotel lobby!

The tour was ok but the guide was less than friendly and herded us into a pokey minibus for the day. The guide seemed to have bouts of fake, friendly sincerity on brief occasions but that was about it. It was quite a rushed tour but at least the guide did have quite good knowledge about the places we visited, not like the tour to Nazareth and Gallilee region two days later...

Having limited time/options once again we reluctantly booked the day tour to Nazareth-Capernaum- Jordan River with Bein Harim. Well, what a mistake that was. The taxi driver who picked us up for our Masada tour a couple of days before did warn us about the Bein Harim tours and did offer to take us on a personal tour for half again the price of the tour. Despite paying more, we should have taken up his offer..

Tour 4: Nazareth, Tiberias and The Sea of Galilee

The day tour to Nazareth-Capernaum-Jordan River with Bein Harim once again had us waiting early morning at the David Citadel Hotel. Thankfully it was only a 30 minute wait and we had a bus this time. What we failed to realise was that the tour started in the Nazareth region so we spent a couple of hours picking up more people in Tel Aviv before the tour actually started. The tour only started around 8:30am so we'd spent nearly 3 hours stuffing around!

The guide was called David and he was TERRIBLE!! It was as though someone had given the old guy the job as a family favour or something and he didn't want to be there. He was shabbily dressed and untidy,his english was terrible, he was rude and unhelpful, and the most knowledge he had was of the traffic and roads we were travelling on. He also walked off on the tour group without explanation or guidance.

From what I remember, the day consisted primarily of:

Jerusalem to start of tour: 3hrs

Nazareth visit the Church of Annunciation:45min

Capernaum: 45min

Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish at Tabgha: 45min

Lunch (at dodgy restaurant somewhere near Gallilee):1hr

Jordan River: 45min

End of tour to Jerusalem: 4hrs

Believe me, I think most people shared our sentiments that we just wanted to get away from the whole thing and off the tour as soon as possible.

What made it worse was that after an already disappointing day we had to spend another couple of hours dropping off the people in Tel Aviv before the bus took us back to Jerusalem. In hindsight I realised why they didn't have actual site times listed on the tours..you spent most of the time getting to and from the tour!

From 5:50am in the morning till 9:30pm at night we had, if we were lucky, 3hrs of any quality time on the tour.

Unless you're extremely desperate, I'd avoid Bein Harim and find other tour operators or ways to see the sites yourself. I'm sure you'll find much better options out there.

Ratings for Bein Harim -

CUSTOMER SERVICE: 2/10

VALUE FOR MONEY: 3/10

OVERALL RATING: 2.5/10

I too am sorry that you had a bad experience. It is very nice of you to share it with others so at least they know what questions to ask and what they might be facing from this tour company and the others as well.

From what I could glean from your post, the first day was "passable," but the second day was a total loss.

I hope the rest of your trip was more successful!

You're right DW325. The first day was passable but I wouldn't call the second day a total loss. The travel time and tour guide did make it regrettable though.

I've worked about ten years in the tourism industry in Australia and NZ and understand what it means to provide good customer service. A friendly, cheerful, helpful and knowledgable tour guide makes all the difference to a customers overall experience. Unfortunately Bein Harim really needs to get their act together when it comes to customer service.

To be honest we had a much better experience on the free walking tour in the Old City in Jerusalem (highly recommended btw). The guide explained his knowledge and experience (which was fantastic), he was friendly, cheerful, sincere, took care of everyone, and really knew his history...everything you'd want in a tour guide.

Thanks for your comments. We spent 2.5wks in Israel ( Tel Aviv -Jerusalem- Eilat ) and had a FANTASTIC time. Israel as a tourist destination has soooo much to offer. Due to our trip being short notice we didn't do enough research before we left and our only regret is we didn't spend more time there:-)

Thanks Rdglady.

The first tour to Masada was 'passable' but we wouldn't have used Bein Harim for the day tour to Nazareth had it not been that we were pushed for time and only had the next day available to take the tour (as you know they only run on certain days).

Unfortunately the hostel we stayed at only provided Bein Harim brochures and many places were closed due to protest to the IDF actions in Gaza so we didn't have as many options at the time. Will definately look into United and Egged for next time.

I posted the comments to provide people with a more informed decision about choosing tours in Israel and to let them know what they might be letting themselves in for. DW325 is so right about making sure customers ask more questions about the tours before choosing them.

In saying that, our experience with Ben Harim didn't detract from us having an really fantastic 2.5wks in Israel. It's a great travel destination and Israel has so much to offer (despite the current conflict in Gaza).

Here's to peace for Israel and Gaza.

Come back again soon!

Douglas Duckett

This post was determined to be inappropriate by the Tripadvisor community and has been removed.

Yes, Ramallah is 100% PA area ( like Bethlehem) Israelis are not allowed to enter and the Israeli tour bus could not go through. This is NOT the same as driving through the "West Bank" aka Judah/Sammaria--which except for certain areas ie. Ramallah, Jericho, Jenin, Schem (Naublus) and others is under Israeli control.

I have made several tours with Bein Harim in the end of October last year , which were all very enjoyable.

Tripadvisor staff removed this post because it did not meet Tripadvisor's forum posting guidelines with prohibiting self-promotional advertising or solicitation.

Joe Yudin was mentioned on this forum before with very good reviews.

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