Should I go for an Israel tour this spring/summer? Should I go at all?Is it as dangerous as the U.S. media say

Answer 1

Israel is very safe because you most likely won't be able to go to the dangerous places. I assume you're going on one of the birthright tours. Just don't go to the following places without a military escort:

East Jerusalem/Muslim quarter
Sderot
Lebanese Border

And do not go to these places at all - since the Israeli presence is gone and these people can't control themselves:

Gaza
West Bank

The Lebanese border is beautiful and generally well fortified. The Golan Heights are breathtaking and Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Eilat, the Dead Sea, Galilee and a lot of other places in Israel are perfectly safe, more so than in the US, and are absolutely beautiful.

Any Israeli person or someone who has actually been there would answer the same way.

Answer 2

GO and savor the atmosphere! Israel protects all visitors regardless of race, creed, etc. Our friends were in the Old City when Lebanon started lobbing bombs. Israeli police offered them a personal escort back to their hotel.

When we were there, I tended to avoid bus stops and crowded shopping areas. Those are the places where you will be most vulnerable because the peaceloving extremists are out to kill as many as possible with one crazed bomber. Someone is posted at the door of every restaurant to check bags and suspicious dress. You will also tend to do that for a few days until you begin to feel more comfortable.

The Israeli tours are first class! The guides have studied for at least two years and have passed rigorous testing. The tours will not go anyplace where you would be in danger. They haven't lost a tourist yet. I felt safer there than I did in East Los Angeles! If we had Travel Advisories for cities in the U.S., I wouldn't leave home!
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Answer 3

One of the first things one learns once in Israel is how wrong the media is. Im not kidding--really wrong.

Israel is safer than most major cities of the world.
Add to that--going there is life changing--simply awesome.
I loved it there and can not wait to go back--my friends where there last summer during the conflict and not only were they safe--they were able to lend a hand to the Israeli soldiers and families.

Go--enjoy and be prepared to come back a changed (for the better) human being. :)

Answer 4

GO TO ISRAEL!
it is probally more dangerus walking down the streets of NYC then Tel Aviv. It is not really that dangerous at all. if the us media showed what normaly happenes no one would care. the media only shows news, like a bus blowing up. and the news blows the bus blowing up out of perportion
(example a Anna Nichole Smith dieing? Who Cares she is only one person what about the soilders in Iraq dieing?)

Israel is perfectly safe and you should most defintley go.

Answer 5

Israel is unpredictable place you never know what is going to happened next. The country is at war there are guns everywhere only fools go to a war zone as a tourist.

Answer 6

Israel is a war zone because Israel want to keep occupying land that was never part of Israel.

Answer 7

Go! It's safe! Israel isn't Iraq. Really, it's as safe as any Western country (if not safer- since it has low levels of domestic crime). Have fun!

Answer 8

i am going to israel in springtime, go and enjoy abeautiful historic place to many people have an opinion about stuff they dont even now about. my friend has been twice without any incidents.

Answer 9

Yes, Yes, Absolutely not. israel is beyond awesome. Do it. now.

in response to Superwoman
Did you know that Israel is sorrounded by over a dozen states committed to its destruction?

Answer 10

Statistically, it is safer than any major American city-but I would try to blend in while there, as much as possible-IOW, when in Rome/Jerusalem act as the Romans do.