Free: Over 100 heritage sites, museums and tours will open on Passover

The people of Israel go for a walk: During the Passover holiday, hundreds of sites, museums and small tourism businesses will be opened to the entire public in Israel, under the auspices of Bank Hapoalim

In collaboration with Bank Hapoalim

14/04/2022

Thursday, 14 April 2022, 07:28 Updated: 07:29

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In the video: Travelers in Israel (Editing: PR)

The Passover project sponsored by Bank Hapoalim, which will take place for the 17th year, was born out of a desire to support museums, heritage and nature sites that have taken part in it over the years and this year towards 40 years of community activity.

This year, Bank Hapoalim's Pesach project will offer 60 free day and evening tours with free certified guides around the country from the Eshkolot Association, a forum for touring centers and Israeli consciousness, along with free entry to a variety of small tourism businesses from the south that offer a variety of activities and attractions.

All museums, heritage and nature sites, small businesses that offer activities and attractions and guided tours around the country taking part in the Passover project will be conducted according to all guidelines of the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Culture and Sports, according to the outline approved for museum and tourist sites.

Admission to all sites and museums, activities and attractions and guided tours is subject to pre-registration only.

Attractive attractions and museums have been added to this year's project (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Attractive attractions and museums were added to this year's project, including: "We" - The Jewish People's Museum, Timna Park, the Ein Harod Art Center, Ben Gurion Barracks in Sde Boker, the Hasmonean Heritage Museum in Modi'in, the Museum of Islamic Art and the Palmach Museum

. Ben Shemen Hapoalim social pop-up that will offer experiences, games and experiences for the whole family in the worlds of society, helping others, managing money properly and other instructive and exciting experiences alike

. , The Promenade of the Walls in Old Jerusalem, Planetania Science and Space Center, Yad LaShiryon Latrun, The Israeli Museum in the Rabin Center, The Biblical Lands Museum Jerusalem, Janko Dada Museum Ein Hod, Haifa Museum of Art, Museum of Treasures in the Wall, Joe Alon Museum in the Negev, Kfar Beta Israel, Ashdod Museum of Art and more.

Ben Shemen Forest (Photo: PR)

The Pesach project has become a tradition in which hundreds of thousands of families in Israel enjoy free visits to museums and sites throughout the country during the Pesach holiday.

The Pesach project, sponsored by Bank Hapoalim, will this year offer 60 day and evening tours with free certified guides around the country from the Eshkolot Association, a forum for tour centers and Israeli consciousness.

Among the tours that will be offered: in the north of the Springs Park (accessible), Ramat Hanadiv, Nahal Hashofet (accessible) and a city on a mountain - a tour of the city of Haifa Night tour.

In the center of Carmila, the "Green Mountain", a city tour of Jerusalem - following the old station (accessible), a tour of Mazkeret Batya (accessible) and the Moshavat HaBaron - a tour of Zichron Yaacov and the south a tour of the secrets of the Red Canyon.

In addition, the Passover project this year will offer free admission to the public at a variety of sites and activities of small tourism businesses in the south of the country of the Association for the Promotion of Tourism in the Shikma Taurus area, such as: 77 Strawberry Harvest Farm, Mitzpe Gvulot, Palm Farm in Merhavim, Kibbutz Nahal Oz Visitor Center A village in Kibbutz Alumim, glass-blowing workshops by Ron Art Judaica, the jojoba plantations of Hatzerim, El Hayan farms, a tour of spice plants in Hemdat Sdot.

The sites and museums along with tours with certified guides and businesses from the south that will offer a variety of activities and attractions included in the project allow the entire Israeli public to enjoy the holiday while enriching the children and parents' knowledge of Israel's beauty and culture. Small businesses from the south of the country and tour guides who have been badly affected by the Corona crisis in the past year and the project allows them significant exposure and necessary financial support for the rest of the year.

Among the many projects that Bank Hapoalim initiates for the community and society in Israel, the Pesach project stands out in that it creates the diverse human mosaic of the people of Israel and the Land of Israel and cultivates the connection of the people of Israel to its historical heritage, landscapes and culture.

Also in this year's project, Bank Hapoalim made sure to include in the team of stewards scattered on the sites participating in the project People with Disabilities as part of the bank's agenda that leads the issue of accessibility in the Israeli economy.

The sites will be open free of charge on all weekdays between the dates: 17 to 21 April 2022. Sundays-Wednesdays 17-20 / 4/22, are full activity days and Thursday 21/4 is a half day of activity .

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The Passover project has become a tradition in which hundreds of thousands of families in Israel enjoy (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The complete list of sites and museums according to geographical division

Tel Aviv and the center

1. "We" - The Jewish People's Museum 2. The

Israeli Museum at the Yitzhak Rabin Center

3. The Holon Museum of Design

4. The Nahum Gutman Museum 5. The Israeli Museum of

Cartoons and Comics

6. The Palmach Museum of the

Sharon And the

environment

1. The Planetania Science and Space Center

2. Umm al-Fahm

Museum 3. The Rolling Experience - The Wheelhouse Herzliya

North

1. Haifa National

Maritime Museum 2. Janko Dada Museum Ein Hod

3. The Moose

Forest 4. Ein Harod

Art Center 5. Haifa Museum of Art

6. The Ghetto Fighters'

Museum 7. The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa

8. The Golan Antiquities

Museum 9. The Haifa City Museum 10. The

Museum of Treasures in the Wall

11. Hermann Struck Museum Haifa

Jerusalem and the surrounding area

1. The promenade of the walls in the Old City of Jerusalem 2. The

Museum of the Biblical Lands

3. The Latrun Armored Museum

4. The Hasmonean Heritage Museum in Modi'in 5.

The Museum of Islamic Art

6. The Water Truth in the Commissioner's Palace - City

of

David Timna

2. Ben Gurion Barracks in Sde Boker

3. Ashdod Museum of Art

4. Kfar Beta Israel

5. Joe Alon Museum in the Negev

6. Haggadot Hevel Yamit

7. Museum of Philistine Culture in Ashdod

The sites will be open free of charge on all weekdays (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Details of the guided tours around the country of Eshkolot Forums Central Israel and Consciousness Forum

North:

• Springs Park (accessible)

• Ramat Hanadiv

• Nahal Hashofet (accessible)

• City on a mountain - City tour Haifa Night tour

Center:

• Carmila "The Green Mountain"

• City tour Yerushalmi - Following the old station (accessible)

• A tour to Mazkeret Batya (accessible) • To

Moshavat

HaBaron - A tour of Zichron Yaacov

South:

• To the secrets of the Red Mall

On Passover, an activity for the whole family.

Self-picking and tasting of the hanging strawberry growing in the greenhouse.

In addition, there are tractor tours with carriages and on the tour we will pass between the pineapple greenhouses and the bananas.

2. Mitzpe Gvulot - Mitzpe Gvulot The first settlement site in the Negev and the first Mitzpeh opens its gates for visits and operation in a unique, restored and active complex of rainwater collection and storage system - the purpose of water, runoff and pumping.

3. The Palm Farm in Merhavim - a farm that offers living areas and lots of attractions and activities in the area.

At the zoo the children will meet goats, sheep, chicks, chickens, ducks and geese.

4. Nahal Oz Visitor Center - a center that offers 4 exhibitions that tell the story of the kibbutz.

5. Rural tourism in Kibbutz Alumim - "Kibbutz of yesteryear" A unique experience in Kibbutz Alumim.

Fascinating tour around the kibbutz, stories of trees and people, settlement and agriculture.

6. Glass Blowing Workshops by Ron Art Judaica - The studio will be opened for tours and explanations of the art of glass blowing + an artist workshop to watch the process.

There will also be workshops for groups of glassblowing artists.

7. The Jojoba Orchards of Hatzerim - Guided tour of the "The Shack" Museum - a time travel to get to know Kibbutz Hatzerim, from the moment of the ascent to the present day, the vision, the struggles, the successes and more.

8. Farms to the ostrich - from the big ostrich to the small quail, from the giant Flemish rabbit to Gadi who was just born all this and more on the farm to the ostrich.

9. A tour of spice plants in Hemdat Sdot - In the tour we will get to know the various herbs that accompany the person from the beginning of DNA, through Maimonides medicine to today's aromatherapy.

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