THE ROOTS OF YOUR FAITH TOUR

"I am the mouthpiece for my sister, Anne, brother Anthony and wife Judith. We all had a fabulous trip; we will never be the same. Our tour guide, Yossi Granit, was exceptionally well versed in the scriptures, and archeological information. He made the entire tour worthwhile. We became personally attached to him. The size of the group being 23 wonderful people in all were hand chosen. Israel is truly a land of milk and honey. Thank you for everything. I only can tell everyone I know: If you have never been, just go, go, go".
Marion Gambino Roots of Your Faith Tour Nov' 12, 2012

"Just want to express our gratitude for the wonderful experience our group had in Israel. From the moment our group arrived we had the most exciting, spiritual,educational and fun time. Your company has a great team in Israel and we were greeted and given all of the special care we needed. The guide, Danny was so knowledgeable and explained the sights, bible verses in such a way that all of us understood and got new insights. The Driver, Iran was caring, helpful, showed a wonderful personality to us. Judy was great and helpful. We are very pleased and many said they would enjoy going back in the future. If anyone needs to speak with me about the trip, I would be glad togive an excellent evaluation of our trip and AmericaIsrael Travel".
Blessings,
Alice Eduard´s Roots of Your Faith Tour Nov 5 2011

"I would like to thank you, Maya, Pauline and others for helping me in preparing this trip. We would like to let you know that I was very very pleased and very impressed with everything - from transfers, to hotels, meals, itinerary, etc. And most of all, we werefortunate to have Tamar Shavit as our tour guide. She was amazing - so knowledgeable, passionate about Israel, articulate and a beautiful singing voice. She made this truly a pilgrimage. The driver, Shalom was exceptional. I have told many of my friends here that they shouldvisit Israel with your group - so do not be surprised when you get emails from them. Our group was so well put together - everyone cared for the others - and it was a truly pleasant experience. I would like to send Tamar pictures - may I have the address in Israel where I can send them? By the way - I have a suggestion. I was surprised that the US dollar was more acceptable than the shekel - weexchanged only a little bit. I was sorry that I did not take more US dollars". Again many thanks!
Melanie L. Corpuz Roots of Your Faith Tour October, 22 2011

"I want to write to let you know how thrilled I was with the tour, Roots of Your Faith, that you set up for my son, David, and me. We went in August and we are still talking about it; it was truly the trip of my life!
I would like to compliment America Israel Travel on how well organized the tour was. Once we arrived at Ben Gurion Airport and made our way to baggage claim your representative was right there to meet and greet us and get us to the shuttle which took us straight away to our hotel. All of the hotels were just as pictured and advertised. They were upscale, we were greeted with refreshments the first night at each one, the views from our rooms were magnificent and the food was delicious, plentiful and recognizable for anyone who might be concerned about "not knowing what they're eating..."
I must say that as good as the accomodations were everywhere we went, they still pale in comparison to our tour guide, Tamar and our driver, Eron. I have to say, they both made the tour as memorable as it was. Tamar was able to speak knowledgeably, from so many perspectives (religiously, politically, historically and archeologically) about each place we visited. It was amazing to learn that not only had she gone to school for two years to be a tour guide, but had been a tour guide for 26 years! She is extremely personable and it is clear that she enjoys what she is doing - it´s not just a job! Eron is a superb driver, he handled our tour bus with much skill and finesse and there were a couple of places where it looked to be a tight squeeze. It was also very much appreciated that he kept water available to us daily, as it could get quite expensive purchasing it everywhere we stopped.
Now to the tour itself and the itinerary. Oh my gosh! The places we went, the things we saw... I still have a hard time trying to decide what was the best part of the trip. I have to tell you the first night in Jaffa was magical - there was a full moon that night and a wedding was being celebrated as we walked through the art colony, so music and laughter was floating toward us. If I had to judge on a scale of 1 to 10 the places we visited, every place was at least a 7 and the 10´s were watching members of our tour be baptized at the Jordon River, floating in the Dead Sea, walking through the Garden at Gethsemane and praying at the Wailing Wall.
This will not be my only visit to Israel and I will definitely use your agency again."
Thank you!
Deborah Garvin Roots of your Faith Tour August 13, 2011

"There is one word to describe our tour to Israel, fantastic. AIT team areprofessionals from the beginning to the end of the process. At each step, they made us feel comfortable and ensured we were satisfied. One of the concerns we had was that of safety. I can honestly say that we never once felt insecurewhile traveling with AIT. They took care of every detail, from the Airport, to the hotels, to each site we visited. We just relaxed and enjoyed it. The meals were great and plentiful. The tour guide (Hana) was very experienced and knowledgeable. We loved her and really enjoyed our time with her. The driver (Jacob) was a real pro, patient and very skilled, he delivered us on time, without incident. The sites were breath taking. We will never read the bible the same again. I would encourage anyone to take this tour of the Holy land with AIT. We have no regrets; only wish more of our Church could have made it".
Alan Harper "Roots of You Faith" June 6 , 2011

"WOW. We saw so much! So many places in the time we were there! Our tour guide Tamar is an outstanding tour guide. She is very knowledgeable, patient, and thorough. She is organized and made sure we had everything we needed; she made sure we knew exactly where we needed to be, and when. Registering at the hotel was a breeze due to her preparations.I loved listening to her stories and the background information she presented. Our bus driver, Albert, was excellent - boy could he handle that big bus! Andhaving the cold water on the bus (only $1 a bottle!) was a life saver. In summary, the tour was truly a bargain considering what we saw and did for the price we paid. I would certainly recommend AIT to others who are planning to go to Israel".
Thank you so much.
God bless,
Susan Szymanski Roots of You Faith" June 11 , 2011

"Our family had a wonderful trip to Israel on your Roots of Your faith tour. We really enjoyed the trip, and Kenny was an amazing tour groupleader".
Thanks again for your good service.
God bless,
Bruce & Choon Eichman and family "Roots of You Faith" June 25 , 2011

"Our trip was one of a lifetime, thank you to our wonderful tour guide in Israel-Danny Dickstien, and equally wonderful driver, Mordecai. Our Jordanian guide-Osama and shuttle driver Abdel-Nasser, were also fabulous. The fact that both Israel/Jordan guides have a degree in  archeology fit us perfectly! We were a little concerned about the border crossing with Jordan, but the  shuttle driver was very good at telling us what was happening and what to expect next-basically taking care of us. I'm sorry I didn't get his name but he was most helpful. We are already planing and saving for a trip back! Again the trip was absolutely WONDERFUL and went way to fast" !!!
Sandra and Jacob Thompson  Roots of your Faith and Jordan extension   March 19, 2011

“Our recent "Roots of Your Faith" tour and our Jordan tour extension was wonderful. We feel it is important to say that both Hana and Fallal did a wonderful job guiding us on our tour of Israel and Jordan. We felt fortunate to have them. Both were excellent ambassadors for their respective countries. Overall, we loved our tour and the Jordan extension. It was mentally and physically taxing, but it was worth every penny that we spent on it. We would highly recommend it to anyone else who might be thinking about taking such a tour as the one we took. Thank you and much appreciation for showing us such a good time. The experience changed our lives”.
John Wells and Betty Stanley    Roots of your Faith and Jordan extension   March 5, 2011

“This tour was amazing! It exceeded my expectations. This trip was a wonderful, educational experience and spiritual journey! To my delight everything was perfect and well planned. The itinerary descriptions were accurate and were kept to the schedule. Also, all of the hotels were very nice and the meals were fabulous for both breakfast and dinner. The tour guide, Ruthie was so brilliant and compassionate about her job! You can tell that she really enjoyed being a tour guide. She made us all feel very welcome and I could have not had a better guide than ‘Momma Ruthie.’ This tour overall was one of the best trips I have ever done. The tour was well organized and all of the reservation staff was amazing and very informative. I would recommend this tour to anyone who wants to go to Israel and have a wonderful time. Again, thanks AIT for such a wonderful and memorable experience”.
Thanks,
Erica Handy        Roots of your Faith and Jordan extension  February 12-21, 2011

"We are back from our holy land tour of Israel! What an awesome trip! EVERYTHING was coordinated and ran smoothly. Perfect. We all LOVED Tamar (our guide) and Elan (our driver).
The flights all went off smoothly (but LONG). Busses were where they were supposed to be when they were supposed to be, even the van for our departure of 8 to Tel Aviv for our early, early morning flight back.
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!!! GREAT JOB! We are thinking about forming a Madison Baptist Church group of 30-40 in two or three years to go back as a group tour on our own. We would again book through your agency, but would most certainly like having Tamar as our guide again. Think that would be possible? We saw everything we should have seen, really well coordinated tour of Israel, and enjoyed everywhere Tamar arranged for us to stay, eat, shop, and visit". More later! Thanks!

Bill Rooks      Roots of Your Faith Tour 12-21 June 12 2010

"My Name is Ivy. I just returned from your Roots of your Faith Holy Land Tour and I want to say that this is the best trip/vacation I have ever been on to date in my life. Everything was as it was promised. God graced us with beautiful weather. There was so much to learn and see and the entire trip was completely safe. After this tour, reading the bible will never be the same. Daniel Weiss is an outstanding, knowledgeable, excellent, caring, and personable tour guide and he is worth more than the recommended tip. Avi our driver was so warm, loving, friendly, and caring. They were a great team. I traveled alone and yet I was so taken care of. The Lord used Daniel to make sure I was taken care of. I am now planning on going again with my mother and I recommend America Israel Travel to everyone. I am speechless about what our eyes have seen and what we have experienced. This tour exceeded my expectations and I highly recommend this tour agency. In Israel the bible comes to life and you'll never read it the same. Thank you for a wonderful Pilgrimage!!! I felt at home in Israel!!!!

Mr. Ivy Pugh     Roots of Your Faith Tour - Feb. 20, 2010

"I cannot tell you how impressed I was with my whole 'tour' experience. The customization that you did for the Eilat tour first, then the Roots tour hook-up was perfect! Not to mention that you did it all in 1+ days and followed up professionally to make sure that I knew that I was booked, safe and comfortable with everything. ALL of the staff were courteous, friendly and knowledgeable. The pace of the tour was perfect, we saw so much, and were never bored because we were either at a site too long or on the road or hotel too long. It gave us an excellent overview of the country, and potential place to re-visit. In addition, the friendships that were formed on this tour are priceless.

"Finally, words will not describe how wonderful our experience was with our bus driver, Avi, and our guide, Danny. Avi went out of his way to return to a hotel to retrieve my camera battery and charger that I had forgot at the hotel; he slipped away while we were at a site and when we were finished at the site, Avi was waiting at the bus with my battery and charger in hand (this was particularly important to me because I have a professional camera and am an avid photographer!—not being able to take photos on the remainder of the tour would have been heartbreaking). This was our first time in Israel and I cannot imagine being guided with anyone other than Danny. He completed this whole event for us. He is not only an archeological and biblical scholar, he is also funny, professional, patient and compassionate with some of our elderly and young single travelers in our group. He was everything you could have wanted in a tour guide. Everything. We were enlightened, amazed, intellectually challenged, uplifted, and felt like we were literally in seventh-heaven.

"I doubt that our appreciation can be relayed by these words. Thank you all!"

Dawn O'Connor     Roots of Your Faith Tour - Feb. 20, 2010

"Our Holy land trip was great, just what I had hoped for. I really liked the smaller group and of course our tour guide Tamar was actually the greatest. She made the history and places so real, and the passion that she told the stories was just great. After my trip, I will never read the Bible the same, it’s so real now. Thanks also for us being able to be baptized in the Jordan, it was one of the things we wanted to do, but were not sure it was workable.... What a great trip!"

Judy Walton, Hammond, LA     Roots of Your Faith Tour - April 17, 2010

"We are back. We had a WONDERFUL time in Israel. The tour guide, Tamar, was wonderful. The service your agency provided was impeccable. Everyone of us was satisfied with the tour. We hope to do this again soon, and I have recommended your agency to all my friends who want to do such a wonderful experience. Thanks again for everything. We will be talking soon."

Margaret Douyon, NY     Roots of Your Faith Tour - April 17, 2010

"My name is Mary Wharff, I am one of the travelers that went on the Holy Land's Tours with your help. Once again, thanks for everything. We did experience some difficulty on our way because of the volcano problem but, we made it safe & sound. We enjoyed every bit of it,it was quite an experience to walk where Jesus walked. I won’t forget it. Thank you. I will definitely recommend my friends to your tours. Actually some of them already asked me for your phone or e-mail."

Mary Wharff, NY     Roots of Your Faith Tour - April 17, 2010

"I called today and wanted to write to you as well to tell you how much my parents enjoyed their holy land trip....The tour guide Tamara was wonderful and very informed. The hotels were very good; the food, the tours and the whole experience. even your the transfer driver who picked them up from the airport was wonderful....It was a wonderful trip overall, they would recommend it to others."

Alba Chirinos     Roots of Your Faith Tour - April 17, 2010

"It’s been 3 months since we went on the Roots of our Faith Tour, and extra tours to Eliat, St. Catherine, and Petra. I just had to tell you what a great time we had on the tours. The buses were always on time, room reservations were always done with keys available when we arrived, wakeup calls were done for us, and as requested our room were located next to one another. When we went from Eliat to St. Catharine we were personally escorted to the Egypt border formalities to our waiting van - great service. Our tour guide, Daniel Weis was just exceptional. He was such a knowledgeable tour guy. He knew such much about the bible and was also an archeologist. He was kind, considerate, knowledgeable, patient and just a nice guy. Our family, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hoff and Mr. and Mrs. Arango would just like to thank you for such a wonderful experience. We recommend you to anyone who is going to Israel. Thanks for the memories”.

Sandy & Robert H.     Roots of Your Faith Tour - Oct 2009

Jamie & Alex A.         Roots of Your Faith Tour - Oct 2009

Hi Sara and everyone from AIT

” we’re back from our Roots of your faith trip and we had a wonderful time. Everything went well, from the arrangements you afforded us by honoring and giving us the military discount, your professionalism and ensuring our itinerary is received all the way to the tour itself. We only have praises for Dani Weiss (our tour guide) and Joel Sasson (our Driver). Dani is such a professional, patient, knowledgeable and caring person. Joel is very respectful and truly cared for each and everyone in the tour group. Our group was small and we quickly became like family. The accommodations were awesome as well. We will highly recommend your company to our friends and families. More power to you and hopefully we will do business again together. Please kindly extend our thanks to everyone responsible in making our trip to the Holy Land a very memorable time for me and Matt”.
Sincerely,
Matt and Mayi M.     Roots of Your Faith Tour - Dec 19 -27, 2009

“This trip was absolutely fantastic, I cannot believe how much I saw and learned in The Holy Land. Our guide Hana was just wonderful, she made the trip. I did not expect that the guide would be this good. To our tour guide Hana: I just wanted to say “thank you” again for everything that you did to make my Holy Land Pilgrimage such a meaningful event. You took very real and personal care of our group; you answered every single question, and provided such a deep and knowledgeable commentary of everything. I very much appreciated the view that you provided by putting things into context, and truly what you see on USA Television is not the Israel that I sawThanks for everything"  

Robert C. Houston,  TX   Roots of Your Faith Tour,   June 21, 2009

“Just want you to know how much we enjoyed our Roots of Your Faith tour of Israel.  Our guide was very knowledgeable and gave us lots of history and insight. Phil and I truly enjoyed ourselves”.  

Phil and Ann S.  Mooresville, NC   Roots of Your Faith Tour,   June 13, 2009

“We have been to Israel two other times. Our trip with American Israel Travel was far superior in so many ways. Daniel Weiss was the most efficient, hard working, knowledgeable tour guide we could have had.  He really made the land and its history come alive. We loved the itinerary of this trip, and our schedule was filled every moment with more than we expected. Again, we were so pleased with this tour, our guide, the itinerary, and even the cool weather that this trip will remain has a treasured memory for our life time. Thank you so much".   

Pat N.  San Antonio, TX      Roots of Your Faith Tour,   March 7, 2009

"This is just a short note to say that my family just returned from the AIT Israel tour guided by Nahum Neil Eisenstadt and I would rate him as OUTSTANDING! He had a thorough understanding of the history and culture of the sites visited. He also used visual aids including sketches, maps and diagrams to supplement his presentations which were very insightful and aided greatly in the understanding of the material. What sets Neil apart from the many guides we have had (recently having visited Galapagos, Egypt, Belize, Costa Rica so we have a number of guides to which to compare him) is his PASSION for the material. It was evident that he was not simply dispensing facts but that Neil very much wanted us to understand and re-live the experiences and the world of those people about whom he was talking. This type of "handcrafted" guide is a rare find and truly a "pearl of great price" (Matthew 13:45-46). BRAVO !!!  

Bartholomew T.  Newtown Square, PA     Roots of Your Faith Tour, March 21, 2009