Gaza Border Reality Tour from Jerusalem
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Gaza Border Reality Tour from Jerusalem
By Abraham Tours
Recommended by 100% of travellers
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Get a better understanding of the Gaza-Israel conflict, the challenges and possible solutions.
Lookout points and historical sites along the northern Gaza-Israel border
Meet Israeli residents in communities on the border and speak by video or phone with a Gaza resident
Visit both an active Israeli Kibbutz, as well as a Palestinian village destroyed by the 1948 war
View up close a Gaza border crossing point
Take part in a special art project happening on the Gaza border wall - ‘Paths to Peace’ project
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S$167.05
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S$167.05
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Ages 0-99, max of 34 per group
Duration: 12h
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Mobile ticket
English
- Guided Tour
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Meet Local Residents
What's not included- Lunch (55 ILS)
- Departure details
- Abraham Jerusalem אברהם ירושלים, Ha-Nevi'im St 67, Jerusalem, 9470211, Israel
Return details- Returns to original departure point
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 6540P37- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travellers can participate
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s cancelled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This experience requires a minimum number of travellers. If it’s cancelled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 34 travellers
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
- How much is Gaza Border Reality Tour from Jerusalem?
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- Gaza Border Reality Tour from Jerusalem cancellation policy: For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience. Discover and book Gaza Border Reality Tour from Jerusalem on Tripadvisor
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Itinerary
- You'll start atAbraham Jerusalem אברהם ירושליםHa-Nevi'im St 67, Jerusalem, 9470211, IsraelSee address & details
- 1Nir Am SecretariatStop: 2 hoursSee details
- 2עיריית שדרותStop: 60 minutesSee details
- 3سكرتارية نتيف هعسراهStop: 60 minutesSee details
- You'll return to the starting point
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00A nice experience.
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00Super insightful! Highly recommend
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00A worthy but sad experience
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Daniel D
1 contribution
Apr 2023
This was an amazing tour. Eli (Eliyahu) was amazing. He was not just a tour guide, he was very passionate about the entire tour, content, sites, and the history. We saw everything listed on the tour and them some. This was a great unusual tour that was enjoyed by all members on the tour. If you want to learn some real history and see history first hand this is the tour for you. I give this tour a 10+++ and Eli a 10 ++++ as well. So happy I was a part of this experience. Thank you Eli ...... Daniel - Texas , USA
Written 23 May 2023
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Ian T
Craigavon, UK3 contributions
Mar 2020
I had the privilege to join the tour with Abraham Hostels on March 9th. Eliyahu is a truly amazing guide who took plenty of time to explain the situation in Gaza and on the Israel side of the border. He was also quite keen to answer any questions which we had. We were able to meet in person some residents of Gaza who were at the border crossing awaiting transport to Hospital in Ramallah. I would highly recommend the tour once they resume.
Written 25 April 2020
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darakshan333
Leavenworth, WA4 contributions
Feb 2020
Eliyahu is a passionate and learned teacher dedicated to working on both sides of disputed borders. His tour route along the border brought is in contact with a number of loclas and many sites where he could share what actually happened and the many different stories around the meaning of the events, illustrating the many sides of the complex issues around Gaza. Every time I felt like I was starting to understand the issues, he would introduce another theory or perspective, point out a different knot in the web of expectations, needs, and justifications which make this geopolitical hot spot so intractable. I highly recommend this experience as a way to more deeply understand the problem.
Written 19 February 2020
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lsbth t
3 contributions
Sep 2019
Highly Recommended! This tour is a real experience. Extremely well prepared and well-balanced by local resident, knowledgeable guide Eliyahu, also with regard to the safety of all participants, so that background and different points of view become clearer. We visited many places along the fence and got a lot of interesting insights and information. We were able to talk to people on both sides of the fence and were deeply impressed by how much profound opinion our Gazan conversational partners granted us. Thus, we were able to record intensely touched both Israeli view and Gaza view in us. Thanxx to Eliyahu and all the extraordinary people who provided time and information for us.
Written 23 September 2019
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Rebecca Irving
Sydney, Australia9 contributions
Aug 2019 • Friends
Excellent. Cannot recommend highly enough. Elk was wonderful, balanced, gave time energy enthusiasm and presented a Jewish / Palestinian peace activist approach. Just do the tour, it will be long so bring your stamina with you. Thanks Eli cheers Rebecca :-)
Written 25 August 2019
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Hi Rebecca,
Thank you for your feedback.
I am happy to hear you enjoyed the tour.
Best,
Brenda
Written 12 September 2019
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Neal Kaunfer
1 contribution
Aug 2019
This is an extraordinary tour not to be missed. I've visited Israel more than 20 times and this tour is a clearly a highlight. It helps dispel so many misconceptions many of us have from the news about Israel, Gaza and the Israel-Palestinean conflict. You get to meet and talk with everyday people who live in Gaza and Israelis who live near the border and sometimes, if available, Israeli soldiers. It's so moving to talk with actual Gazan people spontaneously who come to Israel for just some days to help support their impoverished families. How exciting to talk with a Gazan activist who risks his life to educate a new generation of Gazan youth for peaceful leadership and who become connected with Israeli youth and other youth around he world and to find out how we can help. How exciting to meet with an Israeli peace activist who spends her days in the near impossible task of trying to help average Gazan people come into Israel to study and pursue their career dreams. The tour guide, Eliyahu McClean, so respected by Gazans and Israeli peace activists, accomplishes the extraordinary task of trying to present the Palestinean and Israeli sides of the conflict with balance and integrity--from my experience rare. I'm considering taking this tour again because it's depth and honesty in explaining the enormous complexities of this middle eastern conflict zone. Some of the experiences on this tour, like at the Paths to Peace wall, brought tears to my eyes as I began to feel the possibilities of real peace in progress in a way I've never felt it before.
Written 16 August 2019
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Hello,
Thank you for your generous feedback.
It is very rewarding to read that as en experienced traveler in Israel this tour was a highlight.
This tour can be very moving indeed. One of the main purposes of this tour is to bring people closer to the complex situation in the region.
I will make sure to pass along your comments onto Eliyahu and our team.
Best wishes,
Brenda
Written 12 September 2019
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
Sabine
Montreal, Canada7 contributions
Apr 2019 • Solo
Unless you're the kind of person who visits Israel just to relax on the beach and go shopping, I 100% recommend this tour.
Our tour guide Eliyahu (and guide-in-training Eric) and our driver Maher really turned this day into an unforgettable experience and brought us closer to history and current events.
We started off at the Erez border and had the opportunity to talk to people from Gaza crossing to Israel for medical treatment. We then visited the Assaf Siboni lookout, where we had a great view of Gaza city in the distance. Then, we went to the ruins of the Sa'ad kibbutz, i.e. Ma'oz Mul Azza, which now serve as museums. The highlight of the trip was by far getting the chance to have a (Skype) conversation with people on the other side of the border. It is very inspiring, but also humbling to hear about young people sacrificing everything in order to fight for a better future and bring hope to the children of Gaza. After lunch at the new Sa'ad kibbutz, we visited Be'erot Yitzhak, which is very close to the Gaza border and is also a site that got completely destroyed in the '48 war. We then went to the Black Arrow Memorial, where Eliyahu also showed us shattered glass from an Israeli military van that got attacked by a missile from the Gaza area only a few months ago. The next stop was Sderot, aka the bomb shelter capital of the world, where we visited a yeshiva and a playground that also serves as a bomb shelter. We also visited Najd, a Palestinian Arab village that was left in ruins as the people had to flee to Gaza following the Israeli occupation in '48 that depopulated many places. Finally, we visited the Path to Peace workshop and listened to the story of an Israeli woman, her experience living close to the border wall and her efforts to bring the world together through her artwork on that wall.
Overall, it was an incredibly educating experience. Eliyahu told us a lot of aspects about history and current events and really made an effort to help us understand what's happening at the moment and why. I must add here that he really did his very best to be unbiased, but due to him being Israeli, there was a tiny bit of bias in his narrative, so it's important to take some of the information with a pinch of salt, but it was very minor.
As I went on the Best of West Bank tour the day after, which was led by a Palestinian guide, I saw both sides of the conflict much clearer and I very much recommend doing both tours to get the full picture.
I would give this tour 4.5/5. The tour was absolutely excellent, packed with information and it is just exciting after having read about the history or current events in textbooks or newspapers and then ACTUALLY visiting the sites and seeing it with your own eyes. This is not a tour for taking countless selfies. But it's also not a boring history lesson. It can also get quite emotional at times.
It is important to note that we felt very safe at all times and were given clear instructions should the sirens go off. However, the tour took place a few days after a ceasefire agreement and the guide is local to the area and checks the situation before giving his ok to run the tour, so there was no threat to begin with.
The only negative aspect was the drop-off, which was very uncoordinated (presumably since the tour was still relatively new at that time) and I would like to point out, again, that Maher was an absolutely excellent driver and really went out of his way to drop us all off safely.
Nevertheless, I had a fantastic day and would absolutely recommend this tour!
Our tour guide Eliyahu (and guide-in-training Eric) and our driver Maher really turned this day into an unforgettable experience and brought us closer to history and current events.
We started off at the Erez border and had the opportunity to talk to people from Gaza crossing to Israel for medical treatment. We then visited the Assaf Siboni lookout, where we had a great view of Gaza city in the distance. Then, we went to the ruins of the Sa'ad kibbutz, i.e. Ma'oz Mul Azza, which now serve as museums. The highlight of the trip was by far getting the chance to have a (Skype) conversation with people on the other side of the border. It is very inspiring, but also humbling to hear about young people sacrificing everything in order to fight for a better future and bring hope to the children of Gaza. After lunch at the new Sa'ad kibbutz, we visited Be'erot Yitzhak, which is very close to the Gaza border and is also a site that got completely destroyed in the '48 war. We then went to the Black Arrow Memorial, where Eliyahu also showed us shattered glass from an Israeli military van that got attacked by a missile from the Gaza area only a few months ago. The next stop was Sderot, aka the bomb shelter capital of the world, where we visited a yeshiva and a playground that also serves as a bomb shelter. We also visited Najd, a Palestinian Arab village that was left in ruins as the people had to flee to Gaza following the Israeli occupation in '48 that depopulated many places. Finally, we visited the Path to Peace workshop and listened to the story of an Israeli woman, her experience living close to the border wall and her efforts to bring the world together through her artwork on that wall.
Overall, it was an incredibly educating experience. Eliyahu told us a lot of aspects about history and current events and really made an effort to help us understand what's happening at the moment and why. I must add here that he really did his very best to be unbiased, but due to him being Israeli, there was a tiny bit of bias in his narrative, so it's important to take some of the information with a pinch of salt, but it was very minor.
As I went on the Best of West Bank tour the day after, which was led by a Palestinian guide, I saw both sides of the conflict much clearer and I very much recommend doing both tours to get the full picture.
I would give this tour 4.5/5. The tour was absolutely excellent, packed with information and it is just exciting after having read about the history or current events in textbooks or newspapers and then ACTUALLY visiting the sites and seeing it with your own eyes. This is not a tour for taking countless selfies. But it's also not a boring history lesson. It can also get quite emotional at times.
It is important to note that we felt very safe at all times and were given clear instructions should the sirens go off. However, the tour took place a few days after a ceasefire agreement and the guide is local to the area and checks the situation before giving his ok to run the tour, so there was no threat to begin with.
The only negative aspect was the drop-off, which was very uncoordinated (presumably since the tour was still relatively new at that time) and I would like to point out, again, that Maher was an absolutely excellent driver and really went out of his way to drop us all off safely.
Nevertheless, I had a fantastic day and would absolutely recommend this tour!
Written 13 August 2019
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Hello,
Thank you for sharing in detail your experience while traveling in our Gaza Border tour.
Eliyahu is not only an experienced and knowledgeable tour guide but also a person who will always try his best to enrich the experience in every possible way.
It is very pleasant to hear that you enjoyed the tour and especially that you felt safe at all times. It is very important for us that our costumers feel this way when travelling in an area in such a delicate situation.
I would also like to thank you for taking the time to mention our team who took part in making a memorable experience for you.
Hopefully you will join us again in the near future.
Kind regards,
Brenda
Written 12 September 2019
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tessholmes99
Laramie, WY2 contributions
Jul 2019 • Solo
Eliyahu is a wealth of information. He incorporates history, current political info, and personal narratives into the tour. He took us to places where no other tourists go, so we could learn about the Gaza Strip as up close as possible. After two tours with him, I feel I am at least starting to get a grasp on some of the issues in Israel and Palestine. I am even more intrigued and interested in coming back after this tour. Definitely recommended!!!
Written 10 July 2019
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Luke Scully - A
Hi Tess,
Thank you for taking the time to write to us.
We've been working with Eliyahu for a while now. We definitely agree with you, he is professional and very knowledgeable. I'm glad to hear this tour helped you getting a grasp regarding the complex political situation in the region.
Hopefully you will join us again.
Kind regards,
Brenda
Written 6 September 2019
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Jeff Loewenstein
Melbourne, Australia84 contributions
Jul 2019 • Solo
It is a tribute to Eliyahu (the Israeli guide) and Maher (the driver of our mini-bus - a Palestinian) that the two of them have put together such a well-researched, "intelligent", informative, and most interesting, Tour. One can't beat seeing facts on the ground. I see participants in yesterday's Tour as having been extremely fortunate to openly, and informally, speak and "do" Q & A's, with Palestinians / Gazans at the Eretz Crossing, some modern Zionists in Srderot and an associate Professor in Gaza (this via Skype hook up) - other than the Gaza hook-up not pre-arranged. The narrative by Eliyahu was balanced and informative. To experience lunch in a kibbutz and visit a moshav right on the border / fence with Gaza was something not readily available to the casual tourist. Do yourself a favour....do the Tour and come away well-informed. Certainly no winners for either the Gazans / Palestinians or Israelis in the awful situation they both find themselves in.
Written 9 July 2019
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Abrahamtours
Hi there, Violet,
Thank you for your kind words.
I will make sure to pass this onto Eliyahu.
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed our tour.
Best wishes,
Brenda
Written 8 August 2019
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
741klaartjeb
1 contribution
We decided to book the Gaza border reality tour with Abraham hostels, after our amazing experience with Eliyahu as a guide during the Hebron dual narrative tour. The Gaza tour takes you to places that you're not able to go to on your own as a tourist. The tour may seem a little pricey in the beginning, but i can assure you that its worth every single penny. You'll see so many interesting places and will hear a lot of moving stories. A Gaza tour may sound risky, but i felt safe during the entire trip. I highly recommend this tour and the dual narrative tour in Hebron with Eliyahu if you're interested in the ongoing conflict between Israël and Palestina.
Kind regards,
Joris and Klaartje from Belgium
Kind regards,
Joris and Klaartje from Belgium
Written 1 July 2019
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Abrahamtours
Thanks again for the great review.
Hopefully we will have the chance to have you in our tours again.
Warm wishes,
Brenda
Written 8 August 2019
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Gabriel B
Blumenau, SC
Hello,
I was looking at as tour dates, so it is available as Mondays, it would be possible to do the tour on February 28, 2020 (Friday)
Sabine
Montreal, Canada7 contributions
Hi, this tour only takes place on Mondays in order to ensure maximum safety, e.g. by avoiding the Friday protests.
Gabriel B
Blumenau, SC
Hello, I'm very interested in doing the tour in February 2020, but I would like to know if the tour is safe
