You're very welcome.  Thank you for asking such an interesting question and for having such an urge to learn and understand.  Yea, it's funny that most people who haven't visited Israel picture desert with camels.  Actually, Israel has sort of Miami beach weather and atmosphere in Tel Aviv, it sort of looks like San Fransisco in Haifa, in the Galilee and Golan, you could compare it to the vineyard mountainous lands of France, and you have waterfalls and springs that could maybe remind you of American national parks.  Of course every place in Israel really looks unique, it doesn't really look like these other places, but it's the easiest way to try to describe.  Then you have the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth, and the Red Sea where you can see Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia all from the same place. 

I feel 100% safe in Israel, safer than I did in America when I lived there.  Israel is careful and no one has a false sense of security here.  We know that we have enemies, and therefore there is security where required and the most moral army in the world, that does what is needed in order to keep Israeli citizens safe.  I actually live outside of the big city of Jerusalem now, where you can see the mountains and the Dead Sea in the distance.  Israel has way too many beautiful places that are so different from one another.  If you ever need a vacation destination, I'd consider coming to see for yourself :)  Where do you live?