Many people (including myself), asked me if it is/feels safe in Israel at the moment. The fact that I am writing this blog post only now, 5 months after moving to Israel, can already tell you that worries about the security do not dominate my daily life.
In general I can say that I felt quite safe in the day-to-day life here, both in Rehovot, from our (former) apartment to the institute (inside the Weizmann Institute without doubts) and to the supermarkets and market. Also now in Tel Aviv, walking around, travelling by bus and train, I am not too worried. People walk on the streets, sit in cafés and restaurants, use busses, trains and sherut and live their lives. This creates a normal atmosphere. However, I cannot compare to the time before the knife stabbing attacks started because we arrived after they had already started. In the beginning around the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShana), the international newspapers were still reporting about those attacks. Nowadays one needs to check the Israeli online news to read if and where there were more stabbing attacks.
Two recent exceptions were the New Year shooting attack in central Tel Aviv and the stabbing attack on Sunday in Jaffa (which is part of Tel Aviv). On the same Sunday, there were also attacks in Jerusalem and Petah Tikvah about which the international press reported - maybe because of the accumulation of attacks on one day, maybe because attacks are less expected in Tel Aviv than in Jerusalem, maybe because an American was killed in Jaffa.
What I almost got used to are the standard security controls. Whenever you want to enter a supermarket, the market are of Tel Aviv, a shopping center, the airport building or just a train station, sometimes also a café, you have to open your bag or backpack. At the train stations, your luggage will even be scanned and you need to pass a detector.
All in all it is much more likely to become a victim of a traffic accident than of an attack here!
Tel Aviv, Petah Tikvah and Jerusalem, 6.3.2016
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.707689
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/israel-angriffe-101.html
Tel Aviv shooting 1.1.2016
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.694926
In general I can say that I felt quite safe in the day-to-day life here, both in Rehovot, from our (former) apartment to the institute (inside the Weizmann Institute without doubts) and to the supermarkets and market. Also now in Tel Aviv, walking around, travelling by bus and train, I am not too worried. People walk on the streets, sit in cafés and restaurants, use busses, trains and sherut and live their lives. This creates a normal atmosphere. However, I cannot compare to the time before the knife stabbing attacks started because we arrived after they had already started. In the beginning around the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShana), the international newspapers were still reporting about those attacks. Nowadays one needs to check the Israeli online news to read if and where there were more stabbing attacks.
Two recent exceptions were the New Year shooting attack in central Tel Aviv and the stabbing attack on Sunday in Jaffa (which is part of Tel Aviv). On the same Sunday, there were also attacks in Jerusalem and Petah Tikvah about which the international press reported - maybe because of the accumulation of attacks on one day, maybe because attacks are less expected in Tel Aviv than in Jerusalem, maybe because an American was killed in Jaffa.
What I almost got used to are the standard security controls. Whenever you want to enter a supermarket, the market are of Tel Aviv, a shopping center, the airport building or just a train station, sometimes also a café, you have to open your bag or backpack. At the train stations, your luggage will even be scanned and you need to pass a detector.
All in all it is much more likely to become a victim of a traffic accident than of an attack here!
Tel Aviv, Petah Tikvah and Jerusalem, 6.3.2016
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.707689
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/israel-angriffe-101.html
Tel Aviv shooting 1.1.2016
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.694926
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