Mount of Olives

Your guide will pick you up from your hotel or from your cruise ship. The drive from Ashdod to Jerusalem will take about 1.5 hours. The first stop will be at a panoramic viewpoint from the top of Mount of Olives before exploring The Old City of Jerusalem. Mount of Olives, Arabic Jabal al-Ṭūr, Hebrew Har ha-Zetim, multi-summit limestone ridge just east of the Old City of Jerusalem and separated from it by the Kidron Valley. Frequently mentioned in the Bible and later religious literature, it is holy to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Broad Wall

The Broad Wall is located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the remnant of a massive defensive wall originally erected during the First Temple Period (c.960BC-586BC) and excavated in the 1970s by archaeologist Nahman Avigal. The Broad Wall was an important archaeological discovery as up until that point the boundaries of Jerusalem during the Biblical period were unsu