Having lived both the US and Israel, I can honestly say I feel safer living in Israel then I did living in the States. What you see on the news about Israel, are isolated incidents. Until one visits Israel, it is hard to image this, but time and time again, as a former tour guide I have heard this from first time visitors to Israel that they were in shock as to what they saw on TV and the actual situation here. I am not going to deny there are no problems here, but name one country where there aren't any problems?