Chocolate at Heart
The World's First Chocolate-and-Charity Tour of Israel
February 4-7, 2008

Your Tour Director in Israel: Adina Mishkoff - 02-563-1761, holycook@netvision.net.il
Your Tour Director in the US: Enid Moskowitz - 1-212-873-7649, em18@earthlink.net
Tour Operators: Modi'in Tours and Travel, Ltd. IL: 08-928-7550; US: 1-212-202-0613
Tour Guide: Esti Herskowitz

Included in the price of your trip

Accommodations: 3 nights in luxury/boutique hotels in Israel
Travel: Tour bus and professional tour guide daily (except Shabbat)
Meals: 2-3 meals a day
Activities & entrances: All workshops, tours, entrance fees
Daily night-time treat: On your pillow each night will be a special chocolate gift from yet another of Israel's many boutique chocolate companies
Airport/hotel transfers at start/end of tour, depending on your individual itinerary
Bottled water daily
Kashrut: All meals, workshops, courses, wines and chocolates are certified Kosher by the Israeli Rabbanut, some of which will be Mehadrin.

NOTE: Based on availability, we will also try to accommodate those of you interested in joining us for individual days, with or without hotels. Prices available upon request.

Not included in the price of your trip

Flights: Overseas participants will make their own travel arrangements, ensuring their arrival in Israel in time for the start of the tour on Monday morning. Tour will start in Raanana; transportation will be available for those coming from Jerusalem.
Accommodations in Israel before or after the tour dates.
Insurance: Flight, travel, cancellation, health, etc.
Gratuities
Additional purchases: Chocolates wines, kitchen items and other purchases made besides those included in the tour's itinerary.
Gifts purchased for Gush Katif evacuees, soldiers at checkpoints, etc. Opportunity will be given to purchase these items, at the participants' discretion.

Day 1
Monday, February 4th
Meet over breakfast in Ra'anana (TBA): Welcome kit distribution and group introduction
Raanana chocolate company
Touch Foods - Kitchen gadgets store nearby – brief talk + shopping time
Lunch (free time) in Netanya mall
Special chocolate company in Netanya –employees are all people w/special needs
Check-in at Beit Maimon Inn in Zichron Ya'acov
Special guest – culinary talk, demonstration (details TBA)
Dinner: Casa Barone – Meat/vegetarian restaurant – in the hotel
Evening walking tour of promenade, town
Special chocolate treat on your pillow

Day 2
Tuesday, February 5th
After breakfast: Chocolate sculpture demonstration in hotel
Depart for Galilee: Marzipan Museum and Pomegranate winery
Lunch in a local rustic rural restaurant
Table-to-Table: Project Leket, location TBA – fruit/veg picking for charity
Dinner & overnite in the Canaan Spa, Tsfat - Spa treatments - optional/additional; dinner in hotel
Special hocolate treat on pillow

Day 3
Wednesday, February 6th
Golan chocolate workshop
Golan winery
Lunch – Rural Golan restaurant – meat/dairy (TBA)
Kibbutz Chocolate Factory
South via Emek Ha'Elah, to another boutique chocolate factory
Yad Binyamin – shop for "shower" gifts (or bring with)
Dinner in the area – TBA
Ein Tzurim – Meet with Anita Tucker, evacuees' spokesperson, for a "bridal shower"
Arrive and check-in at Jerusalem's Sheraton-Plaza Hotel
Coffee/cake at one of the area's chocolate shops
Video screenings of some chocolate-themed documentaries recently screened on local TV (BBC, US, local productions)
Special chocolate treat on pillow

Day 4
Thursday, February 7th
Machane Yehuda shuk tour + gourmet cooking class and lunch Volunteering: Packing Shabbat meals with one of the city's providers for needy families Closing dinner and final chocolate "stroll" on Emek Refaim, visiting a few of the area's many chocolate-y shops with tastings and purchases galore to end your trip!

About the Tour Directors
This tour was devised and initiated by two chocolate lovers, friends for over 30 years:
Adina Mishkoff, a former New Yorker, living in Jerusalem for over 22 years, is the owner-operator of Jerusalem's well-known Taste of Talbieh Catering Company. She is contributing her professional expertise, love of good food and of course boundless interest in chocolate.

Enid Moskowitz, a retired special education teacher, lives on New York's West Side. Since her retirement she has traveled extensively around the world and visited many exciting and out-of-the-way places, gaining experience and first-hand knowledge in what should be part of any well-planned and perfectly-executed tour.



Visits to all locations are entirely dependent upon security and safety considerations, and may be adjusted according to these needs.