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Trace The Footsteps Of Samson And Delilah On 1 Day Tour Of Jerusalem
  • Tour Category

    Group Tour

  • Tour Types

    Religious, Archeology, History

  • Duration

    1 Day

  • Activity Level

    Medium

  • Language

    Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Russian

Description

Learn the story of Samson & Delilah as in the Bible as you tour Jerusalem, a city rich in history, tradition, and culture. Called by many names: Salem, Mount Moriah, Adonai Utah, Jebus, Zion, the City of David, and Ariel (Lion of God), Jerusalem has a colourful past and rich heritage. Also, visit sites of more recent historic significance such as the Holocaust Museum of Warsaw Ghetto. Embark on this journey to dive into the past of this ancient city. 

Highlights
  • Gate of the Valley
  • Beit Jimal
  • Tomb of Samson and his father Manoah
  • Reconstructed Kibbutz Yad Mordechai 1948 Battle  
  • Holocaust Museum and heroism, of Warsaw Ghetto
  •  Ashkelon and Ashdod
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    • Drive from Tel - Aviv on highway number 1 to the "Gate of the Valley", turn right at the junction and travel south on the road that leads to the Kibbutz Zorah, as we pass Eshta'ol and Beit Shemesh. Stop in Beit Jimal (Catholic monastery run by Salesian monks; the property was purchased in 1878 by Fr Antonio Belloni) with your Israel tour guide. According to tradition, the Beit Jimal monastery was built in the place where Samson killed the young lion with his hands.

    • From Beit-Jamal, continue to see the tomb of Samson and his father Manoah in Tel Zorah's forest. Northeast to the Kibbutz Zorah and to the west of Moshav Eshtaol. Go west sloop Judean foothills to the southern coastal plain.

    • Head towards the reconstructed Kibbutz Yad Mordechai 1948 Battle, against the Egyptian army attack in the Independence war.

    • Visit the "Holocaust Museum and heroism, of Warsaw Ghetto". Conquered by the Nazis, The Warsaw Ghetto survivors immigrated to Israel and established Kibbutz Yad-Mordechai, named after their commander Mordechai Anilewicz.

    • Travel north to Ashkelon, one of the five cities of the Philistines, the site relating the heroic events of Samson, (to pay the debt, thirty suits of clothes, it's said that "Samson went down to the city of Ashkelon killed thirty Philistine priests. And took their suits, some say in Ashkelon: after his capture, Samson was blinded, and subjugated into performing hard labour).

    • Next, to Ashdod. One of the five cities of the Philistines, where Samson struck "The Sea Invaders". The Philistines say, without forgetting that Samson probably died in Ashdod: "One day the Philistine leaders assembled in a temple for a religious sacrifice to Dagon, one of their most important deities, for having delivered Samson into their hands."

What's Included
  •  Jerusalem Tour Guide

 

What's Excluded
  • Tips
Know before you go
  • Once inside the temple, Samson asked the boy to lead him to the place in between the pillars of the building. Here, he prayed to God: "Please remember me and strengthen me, only this time, the last time, God, and I could revenge at least One of My Two Eyes, from the Philistines". He pulled the two pillars together, shouted: "Let me die with the Philistines". The building collapsed with all the people present. The Bible said, "So the dead which he slew at his death were more than he slew in his life". After his death, Samson's family recovers his body from the rubble and buries him near the tomb of his father Manoah. The Samson events story is interwoven in three loves he got, all of them were Philistine women. In spite of the great anguish of his parents and God, and despite his Nazirite Oath. 

Meeting Point

Tel Aviv, Israel

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
The group size and price
1 To 6USD 600 Per Group

This is a group tour

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USD 600 / group