Schedule
(all times in Israel summer time - GMT+3)

Monday, 11 May 2009: Arrival and Official Welcome

• 11:00 - Arrival at Ben-Gurion International Airport (from Jordan). Official welcoming ceremony headed by President Shimon Peres
• 12:05 Arrival at Mount Scopus helipad, Jerusalem. Welcoming ceremony by Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat.
• 16:00 - Visit to the President’s Residence
  Celebratory reception ceremony, working meeting with President Shimon Peres, meeting with Noam Shalit, father of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, joint planting of a tree in the Presidential Garden, personal addresses, artistic program.
• 17:45 - Visit to Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Memorial. Memorial ceremony at the Remembrance Hall; Wreath laying; Address by the Pope.
• 18:45 - Interfaith meeting at Notre Dame Jerusalem Center

Tuesday, 12 May 2009: Jerusalem and Mass at Kidron Valley

• 09:15 - Visit the Temple Mount and meet with the Grand Mufti
• 10:00 - Visit the Western Wall accompanied by the Chief Rabbis of Israel
• 10:35 - Visit the Chief Rabbis at the Heichal Shlomo Synagogue
• 12:00 - Visit to the Church of Dormition; prayer at the Cenacle, site of the Last Supper.
• 12:30 - Visit and prayer at Latin Patriarch
• 16:15 - Visit Gethsemane Church and a solemn afternoon Mass at the Garden of Gethsemane 

Wednesday, 13 May 2009: Bethlehem (Palestinian Authority)

• 09:30 - Welcoming ceremony with PA President Abbas
• 10:00 - Celebration of Mass at Manger Square
• 15:30 - Visit the Grotto of the Nativity
• 16:00 - Visit Caritas Baby Hospital , Bethlehem
• 16:45 - Visit Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem
• 17:30 - Departure ceremony, presidential palace, Bethlehem

Thursday, 14 May 2009: Nazareth

• 9:15 - Arrival in Nazareth, welcoming ceremony and the ceremony of bread and salt. Reception by Mayor of Nazareth.
• 10:00 - Mass at Mount of the Precipice
• 15:50 - Meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Church of the Annunciation.
• 16:30 - Meeting with the Faith Heads in Israel, Church of the Annunciation
• 17:00 - Visit Grotto of the Annunciation; Celebration of Vespers, Church of the Annunciation
• 17:30 - Meeting with Catholic leaders, Church of the Annunciation

Friday, 15 May 2009: Departure

• 9:15 - Meeting with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch
• 10:00 - Visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and prayer
• 11:00 - Meeting with Armenian Patriarch
• 13:10 - Depart from Mount Scopus helipad to airport
• 13:30 - Official farewell and ceremony at Ben-Gurion International Airport, including speeches by President Shimon Peres and Pope Benedict XVI