People in Israel

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Souk in Jewish part of new Jerusalem

 

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Souk in new Jerusalem

 

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A schoolyard in old Jerusalem. The city wall on the left. Christian quarter

Soldiers and Heredi at the Jerusalem Bus Station

 

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What’s with all the cosplay?

 

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A schoolyard in old Jerusalem. The city wall on the left. Christian quarter

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Soldiers and Heredi at the Jerusalem Bus Station
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That appears to be the safest bus station in the world. Look at the guy ignoring the babe and eyeing the camera...

 

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he didn't like being photographed. He did like the girl excessively. I don't know the hebrew for "get a room guys, sheesh!"

All these teenagers carrying machine guns around at first made me nervous, and I am a big 2nd amendment kind of guy.

 

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What’s with all the cosplay?

It isn't cosplay. Those are real machine guns. Abut 20% of soldiers carry guns constantly. And the guns are very scary. There are standard rifles and also some which are specialized in some way that I didn't comprehend..

All teenager 18 years old go into the military. There are exceptions for haredi and Muslim youth. But there are muslim soldiers in the IDF. not many, but they are out there. Men go in for 30 months, women go for 24 months. A woman who has a baby has to finish her 24 months later.

 

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he didn't like being photographed. He did like the girl excessively. I don't know the hebrew for "get a room guys, sheesh!"

All these teenagers carrying machine guns around at first made me nervous, and I am a big 2nd amendment kind of guy.

Actually their rate of unintentional shootings is very low, 0.05 per 100,000 population. A country like Guatemala has 1.33 unintentional firearms deaths per 100,000 and the US has 0.15 per 100,000. I would feel perfectly safe there, those youngsters probably get some pretty intense training.

List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Wikipedia
Now the celebratory gunfire at a Palestinian wedding would make me a little nervous.

 

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Moslems feel safe on the jewish buses. The jews avoid the muslim buses.

There are three bus companies in Jerusalem. Buses are cheap. 1.75 or so. But no transfers.

 

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he didn't like being photographed. He did like the girl excessively. I don't know the hebrew for "get a room guys, sheesh!"

All these teenagers carrying machine guns around at first made me nervous, and I am a big 2nd amendment kind of guy.

Actually their rate of unintentional shootings is very low, 0.05 per 100,000 population. A country like Guatemala has 1.33 unintentional firearms deaths per 100,000 and the US has 0.15 per 100,000. I would feel perfectly safe there, those youngsters probably get some pretty intense training.

List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Wikipedia
Now the celebratory gunfire at a Palestinian wedding would make me a little nervous.

while guns and ammunition are carried everywhere, the rifles do not have any ammunition in the rifle, but in a pouch on the stock when the gun is not in use. If there were an emergency the clip could be put in the gun in 1/3 of a second.

It was obvious that there was a lot of training in handling the weapons

 

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Purim Service

 

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What’s with all the cosplay?

It isn't cosplay. Those are real machine guns. Abut 20% of soldiers carry guns constantly. And the guns are very scary. There are standard rifles and also some which are specialized in some way that I didn't comprehend..

All teenager 18 years old go into the military. There are exceptions for haredi and Muslim youth. But there are muslim soldiers in the IDF. not many, but they are out there. Men go in for 30 months, women go for 24 months. A woman who has a baby has to finish her 24 months later.

I'm talking about the goofy hats and the hair twirls. I get a yarmulke and a hijab are supposed to hide you from the world for God or something, but what's with the scarecrow hats and the fruity hair?

 

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All these teenagers carrying machine guns around at first made me nervous, and I am a big 2nd amendment kind of guy.

He certainly doesn't have it pointed in a safe direction.

 

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Actually their rate of unintentional shootings is very low, 0.05 per 100,000 population.

It seems pretty high when one considers their firearms per 100,000 population rate, compared to developed countries.

List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Wikipedia

 

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Actually their rate of unintentional shootings is very low, 0.05 per 100,000 population.

It seems pretty high when one considers their firearms per 100,000 population rate, compared to developed countries.

List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Wikipedia

Take into consideration that not everyone living and working in Israel, isn't an Israeli. Some Palestinians have access to firearms too, and I"m pretty sure they've never been to an NRA gun safety class.

 

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What’s with all the cosplay?

It isn't cosplay. Those are real machine guns. Abut 20% of soldiers carry guns constantly. And the guns are very scary. There are standard rifles and also some which are specialized in some way that I didn't comprehend..

All teenager 18 years old go into the military. There are exceptions for haredi and Muslim youth. But there are muslim soldiers in the IDF. not many, but they are out there. Men go in for 30 months, women go for 24 months. A woman who has a baby has to finish her 24 months later.

I'm talking about the goofy hats and the hair twirls. I get a yarmulke and a hijab are supposed to hide you from the world for God or something, but what's with the scarecrow hats and the fruity hair?

I can't speak to all of it, but the "fruity hair" is mandated in Exodus. You have to
have strings at the base of your shirt
hair around your ear

A lot of the weirder things that the haredi do are mandated somewhere in the bible

 

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What’s with all the cosplay?

It isn't cosplay. Those are real machine guns. Abut 20% of soldiers carry guns constantly. And the guns are very scary. There are standard rifles and also some which are specialized in some way that I didn't comprehend..

All teenager 18 years old go into the military. There are exceptions for haredi and Muslim youth. But there are muslim soldiers in the IDF. not many, but they are out there. Men go in for 30 months, women go for 24 months. A woman who has a baby has to finish her 24 months later.

I'm talking about the goofy hats and the hair twirls. I get a yarmulke and a hijab are supposed to hide you from the world for God or something, but what's with the scarecrow hats and the fruity hair?

I can't speak to all of it, but the "fruity hair" is mandated in Exodus. You have to
have strings at the base of your shirt
hair around your ear

A lot of the weirder things that the haredi do are mandated somewhere in the bible

Ah thanks