Sample Study Tour Itineraries
Tours to Palestinian communities and meetings with Palestinians are exclusively planned and coordinated by Imam Abdullah Antepli, MLI Co-Director, in partnership with various Palestinian organizations and communities.
Al-Khalil / Hebron Tour
- Congregational prayers at the Ibrahimi Mosque
- Walking tour of the Old City (H1)
- Visit to Palestinian Authority-controlled Al-Khalil/Hebron (H2)
- The Politics of Palestinian Life in Al-Khalil/Hebron
- Conversation with representatives of the Palestinian Authority
- The Contours of Palestinian Life in Al-Khalil/Hebron
- Conversation with residents of the Old City
Study Tour of al-Quds / Jerusalem and Bayt Lahm / Bethlehem
- Islamic Jerusalem
- Guided tour of sites of religious and historic significance
- The Status of Muslim Law and Life in Israel
- Exploration of the Jerusalem Shariah Court, the highest such office in Israel’s religious courts system
- Friday Prayers at Aqsa
- Khutbah (Sermon) and Salat al-Jumu’ah (Friday Prayer) at Al-Aqsa Mosque at the Haram Sharif
- Christianity in Palestine and Palestinian Christianity
- The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and Manger Square
Study Tour of Wadi Ara
- Dialogue at Al-Qasemi College
- Participants meet and engage with students at Al-Qasemi College
- Umm al-Fahm Tour
- Palestinians in the Knesset
- Palestinian Israeli political leaders and activists
- Pluralism and Co-Existence: Reflections
- Mohammed Darawshe, Faculty Member at the Shalom Hartman Institute and Director of Planning, Equality and Shared Society at Givat Haviva Educational Center