Israeli firm offers 'anti-terrorism' adventure to tourists

Travelers are staying extended 'anti-terrorism' experience in Israel.
Those who participate are taught how to handle weapons.

1. The aim of training is to make tourists know how Israel fights terrorism, says an instructor.

• EFRAT, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: The foreigners yell "fire, fire, fire" before shooting their automatic weapons as Israeli instructors look on — but this is no military training.
• The 20 or so Jewish tourists from South America are on an "anti-terrorism" course run by former Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. Their targets are balloons nearby.
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• "The aim of the training is not to teach you how to shoot," Eitan Cohen, one of the instructors, says to the group, "but to make you understand what we do here in Israel to fight terrorism."
• The tourist attraction offers an unusual option for visitors coming to see Jerusalem's holy sites or to float in the Dead Sea.

• But while it any be exhilarating or instructive for some, others find it offensive, accusing the company of profiting from Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and fears of "terrorism."
• The company is called Caliber 3, located near the Israeli settlement of Efrat south of Jerusalem, and it began in 2003 as a training camp for professional security personnel such as police.
• The instructors, including ex-soldiers who say they served in elite units, use their experience gained through Israel's various conflicts.
• Since 2009, it has also become an attraction for tourists who are taught how to handle weapons, participate in paintball or learn Krav Maga, the self-defense method using boxing and martial arts developed by the Israeli military.
• They pay a little over $100 to participate.
• One application sees the tourists stumble onto a "terrorist attack" in a simulated market with plastic fruits and wooden stalls.
• Suddenly, instructors in fatigues yell at the tourists to get on the ground, then they stop a "terrorist" with a knife — not the person with the headscarf.

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