Mission to Israel

Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI has been leading Chizuk (support) missions to Israel for over fifteen years. Our concentration has always been on the threatened communities of Israel. Our upcoming trip, May 9-17, will follow the same mandate, although the itinerary is always different.

Participants make their own travel arrangements, and meet the group in Ben
Gurion airport on Monday morning, May 10, at 8
AM when we board our private bus and head for the Shomron. One of our must visit
places will be the threatened home of Major Roi
Klein in the Hayovel neighborhood of Eli in Samaria. David HaIvri will be our guide
through Bet El, Tapuach, Kedumim, and as many of
the Shomron communities as is possible to visit. Batya Medad will give us a special
introduction to Shilo. Overnight will be at the
beautiful Ashel HaShomron hotel in Ariel.

We'll continue to Yerushalayim where the festivities celebrating the
re-unification of Jerusalem in 1967 will begin with a
gala event at Beit Orot on Har HaZaytim. A tour of the Temple Mount with Rabbi
Richman, exploring east Jerusalem with DanLuria,
marching in the Yom Yerushalayim parade, and being in Ir David for the Moskowitz
Zionism awards event are all part of our program.

The liberation of Hebron occurred one day after the liberation of
Jerusalem, and so AFSI will be in Hebron with David
Wilder to celebrate that event. Israel Danziger will guide us through the
surrounding struggling communities in the southern Hebron
hills. Back in Yerushalayim, Arieh King, will lead us on a special insiders tour of
the communities within the Jerusalem municipal
borders which are under threat.

Shabbat will be spent in Yerushalayim with Ateret Cohanim leading us on a
walking tour of the Old City and Sunday will be
devoted to viewing the situation in Sderot with Alon Davidi, touring the new Negev
communities with Dror Vanunu and other good
friends from the former Gush Katif communities, and meeting with the Shomrim, who
are guarding the Jewish farms from marauding
Bedouin Arabs. Our mission concludes with a gala farewell dinner in Ashkelon.

THERE IS NO OTHER TRIP THAT COMPARES TO AFSI'S IN ITS COMMITMENT TO HANDS
ON SUPPORT FOR THE PEOPLE & LAND OF ISRAEL.
Please call AFSI, 212-828-2424; 1-800-235-3658; or email:
afsi@rcn.com to make your reservations. For reports
and photos of previous AFSI missions, and a detailed itinerary of the upcoming May
trip, you are invited to visit the AFSI website
at: www.afsi.org