[RBS] Friday morning (Aug. 9) tour of Khirbet Qeiyafa (Emek Ha'elah) and Luzit caves with tour guide Chaim Friedman

[Adina and Charles Rosenstein]

Subject: Friday morning (Aug. 9) tour of Khirbet Qeiyafa (Emek Ha'elah) and Luzit caves with tour guide Chaim Friedman

If you’d like to get to know the area surrounding our city and get out into nature a bit, here’s your chance!

This FRIDAY morning (August 9), Chaim Friedman of LeChaimTours is organizing a tour of two spots near Beit Shemesh:
Khirbet Qeiyafa a.k.a. Sha’arayim  and the Luzit caves.

Khirbet Qeiyafa is an archaeological site in the process of being uncovered and may very well be a fortress built by Shaul Hamelech.

It is located on a hill between Bet Shemesh and the Elah Valley.
Read  Shmuel Aleph 17-3 and visualize the battle between the shepherd David and the giant Goliath.
To understand more about this site located in “our backyard” visit the Hebrew University website http://qeiyafa.huji.ac.il

Also check out this article about the newly uncovered palace:
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/3-000-year-old-palace-israel-linked-biblical-king-david-6C10687021

This will entail a walk (hike) up and down a hill (15 minutes each way).


Luzit Caves
The shfeila region is home to many caves and tunnels, since the limestone is this area is soft and easy to excavate. Among these
caves are "bell caves" which are former quarries. The caves are a network of underground connected dome shapes caverns with a hole
in the center at the surface level. They were dug during the Roman, Byzantine, and early Arab periods. (3rd-10th century CE). Take a
family portrait next
to "Skull Rock", and bring binoculars to get a close up view of ...BATS.
For more info, check out:  http://www.govisitisrael.com/tour-israel/276/


When:   Friday August 9.
Leave around 9:30 from Beit Shemesh (exact meeting point/s,  time/s to be
announced).     Back home around noon
Transportation:  BYOV  (bring your own vehicle) or arrange rides with friends.
Cost:  20 shekel per person.  Maximum 50 shekel per family.
*  Subject to a minimum number of participants

What to bring:  Hats, sunscreen, sunglasses, water, and comfortable walking shoes.

And Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed Hei is conveniently located nearby to buy ready made food for Shabbat.  :-)

For more information or to register, please email shifty at bezeqint.net or call me at 999-2817 or 054-566-5088.

Shifra Friedman
www.lechaimtours.com




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