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Chanukah in Safed 2018
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Chanukah in Safed 2018
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Chanukah in Safed 2018
Chanukah in Safed 2024
Wednesday December 25 2024 - Wednesday January 1 2025
You are invited to join  special tours and activities that will take place in the Galilee capital during the Hanukkah days . Events will be posted as they are announced. If you're coming to stay, check out Tzfat Accommodations options!  
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Library Events

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Chanukah Retreat at Ascent

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Weekend Seminar and Chanukah and Shabbat Activities, Shabbat Chanukah

Dreidel Candle-Making Workshop

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Candle-sculpting for groups and famlies at Mc Levy's Candle Alchemy in Safed's Artist Quarter. Basic classes in making dreidels, penguins, owls or Maccabee havdella swords!    Call 058-413-1856 for more information and to register. 

Apothecary Workshop

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Kabbalah Chanukah Tour

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  • Magical tour of menorahs in the Old City with kabbalistic explanations
  • Candle lighting ceremony
  • Audio-video presentation on the ARI
  • Klezmer music and Chanukah songs
  • Hot drink and donuts

Nightly Old City Tour with Ascent

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Nightly tours and candle-lighting, 17:00
077-3601132
[email protected]l

Tuesday Performance Tzur Mishalo

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Performance: Tzur Mishalo
Tuesday 31-12-24 14:00 - 16:00
​Han HaAdom, Tet Zayin Street, near Lelov
free
​Art activities, workshops, stalls and more! 

Caspion Family Musical Activity

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Monday, 30-12-24
10:30 a.m.
Beit Yigal Alon
20 shekels
​Musical Activity for the whole family 

Revival Tzfat Women's Retreat

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#REVIVALTZFAT 
CHANUKA EVENT FOR WOMEN IN TZFAT
WED JAN 1 / ROSH CHODESH TEVET
9 am - 10:30 pm

Including Musical Hallel 11am -12:30pm @ the Sepahardic Arizal Shul (HaAri St 100) with Tzfat Women
Bring your instruments!

DETAILS & FULL SCHEDULE:  www.kavconnect.com/chanukah

Reserve Your Spot Now. Spaces Limited
https://forms.gle/ueTsLRghJMfsEmLT7
Limited Scholarships available

✨Find presence /  inspiration / expression with:

Aviva Spiegel: The Human Menora: Igniting our Joyful Soul Lights Through Creative Movement"
Elisheva Mirvis Musical Hallel
Sheva Chaya: Reveal your Inner Light & Shine it out 
Nechama Sarah Burgeman: Integrating the Chanuka Lights with Our Imaot (mothers) 
Rochel Leah Weiman: Ohr HaGanuz Flame Meditation  
Yonit Batya Niemotko: Eating Meditation & Breath-Embodiment
Yocheved Godsi: Movement of Light & Connection

✨Integrate and shine out to the world the light, healing and wisdom of Tzfat.

Safed Puzzle Room Special Chanukah Puzzle Game!

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חזרנו לפעילות - כל הפרטים בתמונה - מחכים לכם   בצפת הקסומה! Reservations are required. Use the request form on our website at or contact  safedpuzzleroom.com, [email protected] or WhatsApp +972-55-918-2207 to schedule your visit! 

Glass Blowing Workshop

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Glassblowing
Glass artist Sheva Chaya, offers demonstrations and workshops showing the art of blowing glass. Special demonstrations for Hanukkah every day throughout the holiday at 11:00 and 14:00.
The gallery is open from 9:00 to 17:00, entrance fee: 20 NIS per person.
The cost of a special family workshop: 300 NIS. Phone: 050-405107, 058-7301074.

3D Printing Workshop with Masha

054-4744378
Masha creates with different techniques (drawing, watercolor and print) and hosts her studio in Safed where you can enjoy her works and also experience for yourself in a unique print workshop and go through an experience of creating and hand printing in ancient technique.

Every Friday from 10:00 to 15:00 with advance registration. By prior telephone appointment, another day can be set.
Price of participation in the workshop: 100 NIS per hour per participant.
​Address of the studio: 6 Zvi Levanon St., Kiryat HaAmanim Safed.  054-4744378
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Nachshon Extreme Sports

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Extreme Sports for therapy or for fun.  Rappeling, caving, mountan climing, biking and more.  All let by an experienced instructor.  For singles, couples, small groups, and families. Call or WhatsApp +972-50-6556357 [email protected]
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Tour Tzfat on your own.  Click here

Doll Making

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Early Childhood Center of Tzfat (Matnas Sektor, Canaan Community Center, next to Beit Chana), invites children aged 5-6 to a doll-making workshop.  Sunday Dec 29 at 16:00. 20 shekels. 04-8818484

Photography Tour

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Wednesday Jan 1 2025, 16:00. Photography tour of Chanukah 8th night in the Old City of Tzfat. 200 shekels.  052-8088-775 to register. 

I Didn't Ask to Be a Hero

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Tuesday Dec 31 2024, story of Oct 7 rescurer Rami Davidian. At the Medical Faculty 19:15

Musical Performance

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Together with Caspion Festival
​Tunes in the Courtyard
Monday 30-12-24 12:00
​Beit Yigal Alon 
20 shekels​

Sunday Happening, Music and Workshops

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Musical Chaukah Happening for Children and the entire family. Sunday 14:00 - 16:00. Chanukah workshops including instrument making, music, art activities and more. At the Han HaAdom, Tet Zayin Street near Lelov synagogue.  

What Else is There to Do?

1. There are many activities to do within the city, including a walking tour of the Old Jewish Quarter. Visitors can take a tour with a tour guide or may take a virtual self-guided tour with a smartphone
2. Stay Up to Date with Safed Events and Activities
3. Join a class
4. There are accommodations to match any budget if you want to stay in the city overnight. 
5. Some of the local sites that you can access by bus include:
a. Park HaMishpaha in Karmiel is free.  Water fountains, huge water slides,  climbing, swinging structures. Bring bathing suits. Karmiel is about 45 minutes from Tzfat. The 3611 and 364 buses from Tzfat travel to Karmiel. 
​b. the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai at Meron (buses 361 and 364 from the Central Bus Station leaves every 1/2 hour and pass Meron on the way to Haifa);
c. the Hula Nature Reserve (bus 511 -- 1-559-599-599)from the Central Bus Station passes by the Hula Nature Reserve on its way to Kiryat Shmoneh) -- from the road it's about a 20 minute walk into the reserve
c. Tiberias (bus 450  from the Central Bus Station goes directly to Tiberias);
e. Rosh Pinna (bus 511 from Tzfat passes through Rosh Pinna on its way to Kiryat Shmoneh);
f. Ice-skating in Ma'alot bus 367 from Tzfat
g. Canada Center (swimming and ice-skating) in Metulla (bus 511) to Kiryat Shmoneh and then a cab to Metulla;
h. Talmudic Village, Golan Winery in Katzrin -- bus 511 to Hatzor HaGlilit and then bus 53 to Katzrin
i. Nahariya, a seaside town about an hour west of Safed. Bus 367 (1-599-559-559) travels directly there and back a few times daily. Great free beach.
6. Local hikes which start from Safed include  Biriya Hike, Nahal Amud hike, Nahal Rosh Pinna hike 
8. Pools.  Call for times 04-6922288 -- there are times for separate swimming (men/women) and times for mixed swimming. 
9. Rosh Pinna  Small village about a 15-minute drive east of Tzfat. The Old Town dates back to the early settlers of the 1880s. Windy cobblestone streets with galleries, a historical audio-visual presentation, parks, wineries, cheese-making shops, etc.  
10. Visit to cheese-making -- HaMeiri Cheeses, Kadosh Cheeses 
12. Visit to the HaMeiri Museum of Safed history
13. Otzar HaStam  Interactive activity that allows people of all ages to learn about and experience the art of creating holy parchments for Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezuzzot. Audio visual presentation and experiential activities. 
14. Israel Extreme  Tzfat-based "extreme" activities including rappelling, rock-climbing and caving. 
15. Hatzor Archaeological Excavations -- Nateeve Express Bus 511 to Hatzor and then a cab ride to one of the most extensive archaeological excavations in Israel. 
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