During the To Be There olive harvest program you can sign up for day trips and pay a daily fee for participation. Please e-mail us for questions or reservations: [email protected]
Meeting point daily at 8 AM in Singer Cafe
Tuesday 24 October BETHLEHEM tour
Includes an introduction with maps, Beit Sahour, Bethlehem, the Nativity Church, the Wall, Aida refugee Camp, Beit Jalla
In the afternoon after lunch you can join a lecture at Badil, Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights
150 shekel including lunch
Wednesday 25 October OLIVE HARVEST
Today we will harvest olives in Al Walaja next to the famous
4,500 year old olive tree. We will also see the new fence that is being developed in the process of surrounding in Al Walaja as a prototype for the Wall that the US wants to build on its borders with Mexico.
We ask for a contribution of 50 shekels towards the lunch and transportation (we can't ask the farmer to pay for this)
Thursday 26 October HEBRON
In Hebron we will visit the H2 area controled by the Israeli army and settlers. We will enter the Ibrahimi mosque and we will walk through the closed military zone area and visit a German young woman who is married to a Palestinian and lives in Shuhada street. We will have lunch at their house and then walk through the checkpoint back into the busy market of Hebron H2. On our way back we can stop at the famous Hebron glass factory.
150 shekel pp including lunch
Friday 27 October OLIVE HARVEST
Today we will help a farmer with olive harvest in the Gush Etzion area. We will see how the expansion of settlements in the area is affecting the life of the Palestinian land owners.
50 shekels towards lunch and transportation
Sunday 29 October OLIVE HARVEST
Today we will go to Al Jaba' to pick olives on the land of a farmer whose land is right off a bypass road, surrounded by settlements.
50 shekels towards lunch and transportation
Monday 30 October OLIVE HARVEST AND VISIT BATTIR
We will have half day of olive picking followed by lunch and a visit to the village of Battir and its beautiful terrraces, UNESCO world heritage.
50 shekels towards lunch and transportation
