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Awesome trip. We went all over, including Tel Aviv, the Dead Sea, Mt. Masada, Jerusalem, Haifa, the Golan Heights and the Judean Desert. We spent a night with some Bedewyn nomads and rode their camels (not comfortable at all!) and spent New Year's partying in a winery. Anywho, a little bit about security and guns...
Our group was escorted by an armed medic. He was carrying an M1 carbine. Another guard spent a couple days with us, he was carrying what looked like a BHP and said it's made by Cross. We saw soldiers everywhere we went. Most had M4s and M16s but some also had Galils. When pulling up to a mall, your car was searched and then when you went into the actual building you got wanded by guards. Some of the mall guards and a guard with a group of children were carrying full size UZIs. The night before we were in Tel Aviv there was a suicide bombing but honestly I think it's safer there than it is in the US, even with the bombings lol.
hitch hiking soldier, saw a couple of them
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC240167.jpg
humvee
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC240165.jpg
This is a fort on top of a mountain in the Golan that was taken from the Syrians during the war of 1967. You can see the "fence" along the Syrian border from the top.
I'll link to some pics so everyone on dialup doesn't get bogged down.
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250226.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250227.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250230.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250231.jpg
Me with the M1
On a kibbutz 500yd from the Lebanon border, the building in the distance is an active military outpost. The turret and tower in the foreground are no longer in use.
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250246.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250249.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250250.jpg
Memorial for the '67 war
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250267.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250266.jpg
Soldiers carrying Galil Tavor CTAR-21's in a mall
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC260293.jpg
Soldier with an M4 in Jerusalem
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC280319.jpg
Metal detectors at the enterance to the west wall (wheeping wall) of the second temple. Teeming with security.
Air Force museum
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290356.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290335.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290336.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290338.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290339.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290344.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290349.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290350.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290359.jpg
Yad Vashem (Holocaust museum)
Weapons of the Jewish resistance
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC310410.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC310411.jpg
The national cemetery
this is the result of the fighting during the war for independence in Tsfat, IIRC
You can check out all my pics at http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/
Our group was escorted by an armed medic. He was carrying an M1 carbine. Another guard spent a couple days with us, he was carrying what looked like a BHP and said it's made by Cross. We saw soldiers everywhere we went. Most had M4s and M16s but some also had Galils. When pulling up to a mall, your car was searched and then when you went into the actual building you got wanded by guards. Some of the mall guards and a guard with a group of children were carrying full size UZIs. The night before we were in Tel Aviv there was a suicide bombing but honestly I think it's safer there than it is in the US, even with the bombings lol.
hitch hiking soldier, saw a couple of them
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC240167.jpg
humvee
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC240165.jpg
This is a fort on top of a mountain in the Golan that was taken from the Syrians during the war of 1967. You can see the "fence" along the Syrian border from the top.
I'll link to some pics so everyone on dialup doesn't get bogged down.
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250226.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250227.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250230.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250231.jpg
Me with the M1
On a kibbutz 500yd from the Lebanon border, the building in the distance is an active military outpost. The turret and tower in the foreground are no longer in use.
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250246.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250249.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250250.jpg
Memorial for the '67 war
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250267.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC250266.jpg
Soldiers carrying Galil Tavor CTAR-21's in a mall
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC260293.jpg
Soldier with an M4 in Jerusalem
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC280319.jpg
Metal detectors at the enterance to the west wall (wheeping wall) of the second temple. Teeming with security.
Air Force museum
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290356.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290335.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290336.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290338.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290339.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290344.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290349.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290350.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC290359.jpg
Yad Vashem (Holocaust museum)
Weapons of the Jewish resistance
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC310410.jpg
http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/israel/PC310411.jpg
The national cemetery
this is the result of the fighting during the war for independence in Tsfat, IIRC
You can check out all my pics at http://www.kettering.edu/~bors1515/