I am an Asian-American male planning a first-time trip to Israel in November for 7-10 days. Plan to

I am an Asian-American male planning a first-time trip to Israel in November for 7-10 days. Plan to stay in Netanya wine country tours and travel around by bus/train. I plan to do individual trips to Haifa, Jerusalem and Golan by myself. Petra will be next trip and don't plan to see Eilat.
Q #1: Since I wont be using a tour guide most of the time, can I get around via bus / train with just english - especially to Tel Aviv and back again to Netanya on a daily basis. Is Egged also in English? Sounds like YES, but I want to confirm.
No, you don't need a guide or guided tour for Israel. If you're generally an independent traveler and it looks like you are, you'll wine country tours be fine. Most things that you need will also be labeled in English . Israelis especially under the age of 30 or so speak English either very well or good enough
Tel Aviv to Netanya can be done by bus (right now I'm only seeing slow bus listings that take 90 minutes or more) or by train (30 minutes station to station), depending on where you're staying and where you want to go in each city. It's a little farther than I'd like to do on a daily basis, but still possible.
Egged (bus) and Israel Railways (train) wine country tours websites are also in English but sometimes they don't update them as often as the Hebrew site. If you're making a long trip somewhere or an connection that is infrequent, or very early or late in the day, you might want to have someone doublecheck the Hebrew wine country tours version wine country tours for you, just in case. Winter schedules will probably start around then so make sure you look at the date of any timetable you use
When you look things up in the English versions, be flexible in your spelling. It's NATANYA on the train site. NETANYA for the bus site. Some cities sound or are spelled alike so ask before you get on a bus or train if you're wine country tours not sure.
You can certainly go city to city to Jerusalem or Haifa and get around on your own. Many places have tours included with admission or for a small additional fee. Some archaeological site outside the cities are much less convenient by public transportation. You may want to do a day tour combining several stops or rent a car for a day or more to see some areas. The Galilee and the Golan would be inconvenient without a car or a bus tour
HI AlexA. Thank you for your reply - it looks as though you are a prolific wine country tours traveler with a lot of good info and posts. I appreciate your feedback. I picked Natanya because I am planning to stay there through an air bnb listing. I may also decide on Yaffa and somewhere in the middle of TLV - so maybe 3 places during my stay there. I have always wanted to visit Israel, and if I can stay at a couple of places during my vacation, I will make new friends, and when I return next year or in 2014, I will have friends to call back upon, everything will be familiar, wine country tours and a return trip will be so easy - like going back to a second home - hopefully one near the beach.
If you are planning to travel to Tel-Aviv "on a daily basis" wouldn't it be much easier to find a place in Tel-Aviv? You would save the bus fare every day (2x18 NIS = $9) and about 2 hours of travelling. There is also little to see in Netanya, except the beach (which is identical to the beach in Tel-Aviv). So if you have an air bnb listing for Tel-Aviv - go for it ! If you post the addresses here we can give you our opinion of the locations.
Yaffa/Jaffa/Yafo is probably Ok, but you don't really need that as a separate location as it's right next to Tel Aviv. Transportation to other parts of the cuontry may be much much easier if you can base yourself in one or more of the big cities-Tel Aviv , Jerusalem, Haifa. Then you can go almost anywhere.
Thank you all for your expertise. I am thinking instead of 4-5 days in central Tel Aviv or Yaffa, then 3-4 days in Haifa which should give me better access wine country tours to the north and the Golan Heights. DO you think its worthwhile to spend 2 days in and around the Golan? I heard thats a great area to trek later in the year, but perhaps too close to Lebanon and Syria? wine country tours Also, someone tried to sell me a skin cream made with Dead Sea Pearls. Is there aquaculture there? Might it be interesting?
It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to tour the Golan on your own without a car. With a car you can easily spend two days there: Gamla, Mt. Bental, Hamat Gafer, etc,etc - look at the National Parks and Nature Reserve web site for more information.