LEVEL UP! Emunah Solidarity Mission

Give and Grow- Unite with the Jewish People, Connect to God, to Israel and to Your Soul. 

Tentative Itinerary - subject to change based on security issues, availability of speakers, hotels and events.

Monday, Nov 11th, 2024

Arrive in Israel

Meet at the David Citadel hotel at 1:00pm

Bus Stops at Airport at 2:00pm

Bus leaves at 2:30pm

Travel up north

4:00 pm Check in to Carmel Forest Spa

Time to settle in

6:00 Getting to Know You - meet Israeli counterparts and hear what life has been like since Oct. 7th

7:00 Dinner

 Introducing the Give and Grow Concept- Volunteering and security/war update

8:30 pm Zumba\ Dance with Debbie Hirsch  at the hotel

Goodnight!

Overnight Carmel Forest Spa

Tuesday, Nov 12th

Optional: Sunrise Hike with Shira 

8:00 Yoga and mediation near the pool 

9:30 Breakfast

10:30 Leave to Volunteering on a Farm: Fruit and Vegetable Picking, Help Israeli famers who struggle with loss of their livelihood and their foreign workers

12:30 Head to Zichron Yaakov: 

  Emunah-festations  Dini Coopersmith on the bus

1:30 Food and Wine Tour with Shani Amichai "Teima mehatzafon" - a Taste of the North

3:30 Head back to Carmel Forest Spa

4:30 Stretches with Shira

6:30 Dinner

7:30 Improv and Laughter with Debbie 

9:00-10:00  Butterfly Workshop with Artist Sigalit Nivodovsky, Creator of the butterfly exhibit at Hostage Square 

Overnight: Carmel Forest Spa

Wednesday, Nov 13th 

8:00  Hike in the Carmel Forest with Shira Tjong-Alvares

9:00 Breakfast 

10:00 Meditation and Prayer led by Shayndel Plotkin

11:00  Check out and pack the bus

Depart to Charish 

11:45 Meet with Hadas Lowenstern, widow of Elisha Lowenstern, Hy"d, who was killed in action in Gaza in Dec., 2023

Hear about Emunah, courage and resilience.

1:00 Lunch in Ceasaria

2:00 Bus to Tel Aviv

What can be Your Unique Contribution and Meaning?  Dini Coopersmith on the bus

Hostage Square in Tel Aviv (Please God there will be no more hostages  and square will be dismantled)

Pay tribute, speak to families, visit the booths, hear the stories and group prayer circle 

Sell butterfly pins and support the cause of the hostages' families

Take a short guided tour around the square

4:00  Depart to Jerusalem

5:30 Check in to David Citadel Jerusalem

Free evening

Optional: Prayer at the Kotel 

Overnight: David Citadel Jerusalem

Thursday, Nov. 14th, 2024

7:30 Prayer and Meditation led by Shayndel Plotkin

8:30 Breakfast

9:30 Qigong, Meditation and Mindfulness with Cindy Weissman and Karen Kuflik

10:30 Travel to Yad Binyamin

Poetry on the Bus with Chaya Lester

11:45 Meet with  Tami Goldberg  and hear how she has been filling her life with meaning and giving 

Meet Ofra Moses in Gadera Turmus Park and hear her amazing story of bravery on Oct. 7th

1:00 Lunch at Tami Goldberg's house

2:00 pm Visit the Nova festival site, pay tribute to te fallen and bear witness to this modern-day pogrom

Creative  Words workshop with Chaya Lester

Prayer Circle

4:00 Stop at Shuva Rest stop- volunteer at this amazing place of Chessed 

5:00 Head back to Jerusalem

Free evening

Overnight David Citadel Jerusalem

Friday November 15th

Breakfast

9:00 The Power of Tehillim            Mrs. Rivka Segal

10:00 Getting to the Root of Solidarity       R. Nechemia Coopersmith

11:30 The Message of these Times R. Eitiel Goldvicht 

12:30 Optional: Leave to shuk

1:00 Free for lunch

Prep for Shabbat

3:15 Leave to Aish Building

4:15 Candle Lighting at Aish World Center

Pray and Dance at Kotel 

Dinner Aish World Center

Dvar Torah

Oneg Shabbat

Overnight David Citadel

Shabbat, November 16th, 2024

Optional: Shabbat services 

Kiddush/ Breakfast

10:30 5 steps to Leveling Up your relationship with God         Dini Coopersmith 

11:30 Leave to Shabbat Lunch hosts

3:00 Rest

4:00 Meet with Rachel Goldberg-Polin, famous mom of murdered hostage, Hersh, support her and be inspired by her faith and resilience

5:05  Havdala

Melaveh Malka

Jewelry Making Workshop

Sunday, November 17th, 2024

Breakfast

8:30 Judaism and Acheiving Serenity          Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen

9:30 Emunah and Manifesting Blessing in our Lives            Rebetzin Yehudis Golshevsky 

11:00 Meet Ayala ben Yosef

Leave to Army base: Meet Women Soldiers, bring gifts of make up, cosmetics and toiletries, and Hear their stories of Courage and Resilience

Hafrashat Challa and  Israeli Dance class with Ayala with the women soldiers

4:00 Prepare bbq for the soldiers (men and women:)

5:00 BBQ Dinner we sponsor with 100 soldiers! 

7:00 pm Back to Jerusalem

Overnight: David Citadel Jerusalem

Monday, November 18th, 2024

9:30 Taking it all Home         Shayndel Plotkin

10:30 Check out of Hotel

Load Bus or put Luggage in Storage

11:00 Depart to Gush Etzion

11:40 Tour Tekoa and visit Artist Gallery

12:30 Wine and Cheese at Jolie Eisen's house in Efrat- Meet moms of Soldiers and hear about their resilience in the face of Adversity

2:30 Meet Leo Dee and hear about Emunah, seeing the Light in the Darkness and The Power of Unity

3:30 Shop for last-minute presents to take home, and Support Israeli businesses in Efrat

5:00  Banquet Dinner at Roza  

7:00 Back To Jerusalem or Leave to Airport!

See you back here soon in happier times!