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   Tiyulim in June

Walking Tours with Yona Wiseman

2.Gains & Losses!!    Thursday 7 June
Our first visit will be to the IDF History Museum. With the help of films, maps, photos and documents we shall learn about the history of the Israeli army from its creation until today. Among the exhibits are the mortar Davidka and the cannon Napoleonchik. There are exhibits of the gifts and photographs from the chiefs of staff and a fascinating display of weapon caches (slikim) which were used before the state of Israel. Finally, there is a display of tanks, motorized and historical vehicles such as those used by various chiefs of staff and the one used by Motta Gur when the Old City was captured in 1967.
The museum backs on to the new Tachana (old Jaffa railway station), where Yona will take us to some of the unknown parts and tell us stories. There will be time to sit and enjoy a coffee break.
We move on to the American Colony, where we will hear about the arrival of Americans and Germans to the Holy Land in the mid-19thcentury and of their failures and successes. We will visit the home of Baron Plato Ustinov, grandfather of Peter Ustinov, and the restored wooden home of one of the American families.

Cost: NIS120   After 6/5/12 NIS 130
Coffee Break at the Tachana:    Either bring your own snack or buy at one of the coffee houses
Depart: 8.40am Young Israel /8.45am Kikar    Return: 2.30pm