Thinking about how to plan your summer holidays? Want something off beat, or, if you're in homeland security, professionally useful? This week, I have a five-part series over at Slate on touring Israel's counter-terrorism sites (today covers the military justice system), and it's not a one time deal. These tours are offered regularly. A couple people asked me how to go on such a tour.
There are no doubt any number of ways to do this: We booked our tour through Shaneson Consulting, a New York-based firm which organized the tour together with Israeli partners. While our tour was aimed at law enforcement, as we mentioned on our series, there was a wide mix of people. The firm is conducting another two tours this summer: One specifically for law enforcement officials, and another aimed at business tourists. The tour is fairly intensive: we were booked from morning to night, and everything that was on our itinerary came through (which for any tour, is fairly impressive).
While some of the stops on the tour are open to any tourist (visits to the Supreme Court building, Old City, etc.), the unique access the tour offered was impressive, and for those interested in Israel's counter-terrorism strategies, extremely interesting.
[Photo Credit: Nathan Hodge]
