Traveling to Israel (Tel Aviv)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised that your work would send you to a country with significant safety risks (I say this as a Jew who has been to Israel). I know people who were there this summer during the bombings and were stuck and it was a horrific experience. Is the trip truly necessary? If so, I agree with the advice around avoiding public transport, crowded markets, etc. Will you have a local to help guide you? Israel is a very special and beautiful place, but I can't say I'd go right now...

Was this written 20 years ago? You do not have to avoid public transportation or crowded markets. Probably safer in crowds there than you are in the US.

Ummmm… ok? So you need to make sure your hotel has a bomb shelter on every floor but everything else is perfectly safe? Gotcha. I’d avoid those things but have at it next time you go.

The currently risks almost are exclusively due to missile and drone activity from nearby countries / terrorist organizations, not suicide bombers or mass shootings, which were way more common decades ago.

NP here. I would suggest to the OP that unless you're taking public transportation in/close to the West Bank/East Jerusalem, you should be fine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised that your work would send you to a country with significant safety risks (I say this as a Jew who has been to Israel). I know people who were there this summer during the bombings and were stuck and it was a horrific experience. Is the trip truly necessary? If so, I agree with the advice around avoiding public transport, crowded markets, etc. Will you have a local to help guide you? Israel is a very special and beautiful place, but I can't say I'd go right now...

Was this written 20 years ago? You do not have to avoid public transportation or crowded markets. Probably safer in crowds there than you are in the US.

Ummmm… ok? So you need to make sure your hotel has a bomb shelter on every floor but everything else is perfectly safe? Gotcha. I’d avoid those things but have at it next time you go.

The currently risks almost are exclusively due to missile and drone activity from nearby countries / terrorist organizations, not suicide bombers or mass shootings, which were way more common decades ago.

Those aerial attacks only rarely cause actual damage anywhere, the risk is so small it's of essentially no practical concern.

[Anonymous]

The practical risk is fairly small, but I still wouldn't go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The practical risk is fairly small, but I still wouldn't go.

Everyone has different risk tolerances. I wouldn't go to most Central or South American countries, or to most East Asian or African countries - disease, political instability, crime, substandard medcial care in an emergency. But, I'd go to Israel with no qualms. Each to their own.

[Anonymous]

Most beautiful women in the world. Bar and Gal types abound. Enjoy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve traveled to Israel before on business but I wouldn’t go now. They are waging a genocide and claiming it’s necessary for their own security, so why put your own safety at risk. Do a Teams call if you must deal with them at all.

+1. I would decline. I would not spend one shekel in that genocide factory. Would you have gone to Nazi Germany during the Holocaust? Because they’re doing the same thing now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’ll have a great time. Agree with the poster that said stay at a hotel with bomb shelters on every floor (which is any new hotel). Otherwise you will feel safe. Make sure to check out the beach and restaurants.

What a sad way to live.

It’s time to stop the madness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most beautiful women in the world. Bar and Gal types abound. Enjoy.

What is a “Bar and Gal” type?

(You do realize, right, that not everyone’s primary focus is getting laid? I mean if they are a full grown adult.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most beautiful women in the world. Bar and Gal types abound. Enjoy.

What is a “Bar and Gal” type?

(You do realize, right, that not everyone’s primary focus is getting laid? I mean if they are a full grown adult.)

Not PP but it’s Bar Rafaeli and Gal Gadot.

[Anonymous]

I love how people here are so cautious about everywhere on Earth except Israel, a genocidal killing machine that has destabilized the entire Middle East. Don’t go OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love how people here are so cautious about everywhere on Earth except Israel, a genocidal killing machine that has destabilized the entire Middle East. Don’t go OP.

Thank you
I've lived all over the world and shake my head when people are afraid of most countries here but somehow this is ok?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people here are so cautious about everywhere on Earth except Israel, a genocidal killing machine that has destabilized the entire Middle East. Don’t go OP.

Thank you
I've lived all over the world and shake my head when people are afraid of most countries here but somehow this is ok?

Right!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love how people here are so cautious about everywhere on Earth except Israel, a genocidal killing machine that has destabilized the entire Middle East. Don’t go OP.

I think the U.S. did a pretty good job at destabilizing the Middle East in the past two decades. Don’t give all the credit to Israel.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love how people here are so cautious about everywhere on Earth except Israel, a genocidal killing machine that has destabilized the entire Middle East. Don’t go OP.

I think the U.S. did a pretty good job at destabilizing the Middle East in the past two decades. Don’t give all the credit to Israel.

Fair point. Together Israel and the U.S. (which supports Israel) are an utter menace to the world.