I am moving to Jerusalem. Do you have any advice you'd like to share?

Advice? well do not go!!I am moving to Jerusalem. Do you have any advice you'd like to share?
Yes...think again......There are no safe neighborhoods in Israel.!!! A recent attack on a prominent Yeshiva in Jerusalem confirms that. The Arab Israeli conflict isn't going to go away, it will outlive today's generations because the relations and descendants on both sides have axes to grind and retributions in mind. There is no easy answer to the problem. It is not a religious one, it is the fact that, believe what you will, the P alestinians were driven from their homeland by the Jews and Israelis with the sanction of Britain. The latter fought with and acquired it from the Turks before that. Israel had two terrorist organizations long before Hamas and Hesbola. They were the Irgun formed by Eastern European and holocaust survivors and later the Haguna. The first of these groups were responsible for blowing up the King David's hotel which housed the British high command. This subsequently led to the departure of the british military and the founding of the State of Israel by Ben Gurion. These days organized Russian jewish criminals have established a stronghold there.Most of the young Israelis I met when I visited in 78 couldn't wait to get out, especially because they didn't want to do military service. You will find hundreds of thousands of them in LA, in Japan, in Thailand and Europe, especially in the uk, working at any jobs that will hire them and they usually share accomodation kibbutz style, kinda crammed to save costs. Most never want to return to Israel. When wealthy American, Canadian, British and Australian jewish families send their kids there to get a so-called jewishness education,etc. they often work and live on a kibbutz which are saturated with non jewish workers from all over Europe and elsewhere as most jews don't like the idea of backbreaking agriculture work, while the fat cat kibbutz owners sit back and relax off the labor of others. There is also a free sex attitudes, drugs and alchohol readily available.Thus the hypocrisy which the Israeli government would rather not discuss. Far from being the Jewish State supported by jews Worldwide, many jews strongly dissagree withe philosophies and policies of the Israeli State and it should cease calling itself the Jewish State unless a Worldwide acurate referendum among other Jews is properly conducted. The reason being, because everytime they conduct military operations against the Palestinians and or the Lebanese it further adds to the hatred and hostility towards all Jews anywhere. It is wrong and undemocratic as much as if say Haiti called itself the Catholic State. There are millions of Jews Worldwide who would just as soon be left alone and be associated with the Isareli Arab conflict, they just want to be left alone and leave normal lives.! My Father escaped from a Rumanian blackshirt camp and my Mother's Parents were refugees from the Bolshevik pogroms in the Ukraine and most of my relatives were holocaust victims. so I think I am qualified to make this analogy.I am moving to Jerusalem. Do you have any advice you'd like to share?
Visit Haram al-Sharif after entering through the Gate of Damascus.
well I lived in jerusalem for about 7 years so all I can say is that if you are going there to study in the hebrew university than you are going to the 64th ranked high education in the world which means you'll have very hard tests and get a very good world class education which you will be able to go anywhere in the world and be recognized and appreciated.





about jerusalem itself - it has become much more religious then when i was there, people there are more calm then in other places, they aren't like in tel-aviv (the city that never sleeps) the air is better in jerusalem, jerusalem has a unique look, if you like night life you can go to the city center, or the industrial zone, I left jerusalem 10 years ago and i havn't lived there since so I guess alot has changed.


myself I'm not a jerusalem person I like very straight flat roads not ones that go up and down the hill, I like living in a city that the beach is near, but that's me.
By good neighborhood do you mean Ashkenazi and not an Arab in sight?





I advise to get out a bit and see how all strata of society live there (including Arabs) you may then wish to reconsider if you should continue to support the economy of an oppressive apartheid regime, which still illegally occupies the city.
I am sure you have a good reason but it scares me.
take tuna and real corn flakes with you -- apparently they are hard to find in Israel.





true fact
Only envy. Have a great time.
you didnt provide enough facts about what you're going to do there, where you're moving from and so on.


i do advise not living along the herzl route for the next 5 years because there's lots of work being done on the new train line and traffic and dust there are really annoying.





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the only other advice is to really enjoy the city, explore it, use every free moment to get to know its wonders, it's really one of the most fascinating places in the world.
My advice would be for you to be Palestinian, since Jerusalem belongs to THEM.
Is it a financial decision? Most youth are emigrating due to the poor education system in ersatz israel.





Advice? Well, I think you are pretty brave on a number of counts. Personally I don't think I would advise the move.