The wife is Israeli - she served in a combat unit in the late 80's / early 90's. Back then girls were attached to fighting units in support roles, nowadays there are some fully integrated combat units, but not too many...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal_Battalion . My 3 girls are all dual-citizens and my eldest (nearly 14 y.o.) has very recently declared she's going to serve her conscription when she turns 18; part of this is her refusal to allow terrorism to defeat the state.
One thing Israel always has had going for it is it's people, here's a link to some of the attempts, non-firearm licensed citizens, made to counter the recent stabbings....
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/194222/ ... n-violence.
The media appears to be having a hard time spinning the latest round of anti-Jewish terrorism. It's quite hard to dispute the facts that many times a day, terrorists are approaching civilians, police and soldiers and attempting to stab them.
I have zero time for the UN politicians who declare the Israeli response to a stabbing attack is 'heavy handed' - you try to stab someone, you get shot.....there are several videos where the security forces have tried to talk down a terrorist only for them to be rushed again, and being forced to open fire.
FYI: as far as carrying a weapon in Israel - it's a MASSIVE "no no" unless you have a firearms license. Carry a knife, go to jail; peeper spray is ok, but has sold out across the country in the last couple of weeks. Getting a firearms license is very hard unless you are a ranking reserve officer, live in the West bank, are a security guard etc. and when licensed you are restricted to one handgun and 50 rounds of ammunition. I used to live there when the 'good reason' part of the application was just 'I want one' but that changed in the mid-90's and I believe got further tightened about 10 years ago.
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or calling on Sim G / DM and their mates? Either way, non of us can move at 950FPS!!!