Lunatock

Sounds like fun. Another reason to make it to the Holy Land.

Besides, much rather do that than attempt a crash course in Parachuting w/ the 82nd. As a show of gratitude for the Maxims & Stuffs.

I'm horrible enough with parachuting into a quarry...in a PS1 game. Real life, I'd probably 'chute through a church window by accident.



The new Israel experience

By David Halperin

At Dani-Hi Caesarea Ranges, tourists get a flavor of the anti-terror training given to local security guards.

Tourists wishing to learn how to fight terrorism
have led Dani-Hi Caesarea Ranges, a facility that
usually hosts the training of police and security
guards, to consider a new marketing angle.




Since January 2002, the facility
has been approached four times
by American tourist groups
asking to be taught and trained
in the techniques used to
combat terrorism. According to
Israel Assaf, general manager
of Dani-Hi, the groups were
offered physically and
psychologically challenging
training sessions, including

weapon training and survival techniques.

The idea began when Keith Rinzler, a 37 year-old
father of three from Atlanta, Georgia,
contacted the Dani-Hi Caesarea Ranges nearly
two years ago. The question he put to the
facility managers was simple: "If the Mossad
called you and said this guy has no training at
all, and you have three days to teach him the
most important aspects of combating terrorists,
what would you do?" The result was the
facility's first-ever counter terrorism
training for a tourist.

"I wanted to learn as much as I could in the
shortest period of time," Rinzler told Anglo
File earlier this month. He returned this past
January to undergo additional training with
five other Americans.

"The people who come to us are looking for a
challenge," says Assaf, admitting that he does
not yet know "how the idea will grow." Assaf
notes that the facility has no immediate plans
to advertise the training sessions for
tourists, and instead merely responds to groups
that approach it. Because such training is a
relatively new concept, besides checking
participants' medical condition, Dani-Hi does
not yet have any specific guidelines for who
may - or may not - participate in the
training.

"The idea is to learn to overcome the physical
and mental challenges that [participants] face
in these missions," says Assaf. "We tailor to
the special demands of each visiting group. We
can fix a program for anyone's needs as we have
all the facilities."

But counter-terrorism training for tourists is
still a very small percentage of Dani-Hi's
operations, usually focused on local police and
security guards. "Most of the guards in Israel
have been through this place," Assaf notes.

Maxim Kahan, the owner and founder of Dani-Hi,
understands what it takes to provide security
for the public. The 85 year-old native South
African first came to Israel in 1935. During
World War II he served six years in the British
army as part of the Jewish Brigade, and later
was a brigade commander in Israel's War of
Independence. He eventually became a police
commander, founding the police academy in
Shfaram, north of Haifa. In 1970, Kahan's son
Dani was killed in battle, and in 1979 he
created Dani-Hi, "to commemorate Dani and all
those who fell in service of their country, in
the hope of helping our sons to return home in
peace."

"It's not just a shooting range, it's a
complex," says Kahan about Dani-Hi, which he
estimates has been responsible since 1991 for
training some 12,000 security guards for the
Ministry of Education alone. He notes that
Dani-Hi has sleeping accommodations for up to
150 people and offers horseback riding, paint
ball, and various rope training and wall
climbing exercises. "Shooting is just one of
the elements in training a man," he says.

In his private training in January 2002, Rinzler
participated in classroom sessions on
understanding body language, "shot every kind
of gun you can imagine," and conducted various
"missions." On one such night mission, he was
taken eight kilometers from the facility. Armed
with a paint ball gun, he was instructed to use
satellite photos to navigate back to Dani-Hi,
shoot a guard at the entrance to the facility,
break into an office, take photographs, and
exit the facility undetected.

"I was a little more than they were expecting,"
says Rinzler, a former race car driver and
certified cave diver who says he was successful
in the mission, but admits he "surveyed the
land" the night before with night vision
goggles.

Rinzler explains that although similar training
is offered in the United States, he chose to
come to Israel because of his Jewish background
and Israel's experience in fighting terrorism.

"Saying you did counter-terrorism training in
Arizona is a little different than doing it in
Israel," he says. "It's an eye opener. You get
a small taste of what trained professionals in
Israel go through."

here is the link http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/S...ID=0&listSrc=Y

bigross86

I have a friend who came to Israel to study for a year, and than went and joined Golani for 9 months

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Lunatock

Whats Golani?

Leader

sign me up I'm ready kick some terrorist ass.:D

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bigross86

Golani is an Elite Infantry unit along with Givati and the Tzanhanim Paretroopers unit.

Lunatock

OK. If that was a hint. I'm flatered. But replace Church with Synagogue. In what I said at the very top. :D

bigross86

I was actually wondering why you were at the Ha'aretz website anyway. That newspaper is the most leftist newspaper out of them all. They are so left even some Labor members think they are exaggerating...

Lunatock

Wasn't there. ARFCOM post.

bigross86

I see. Many people I know despise that newspaper for it's outlooks. To say it's very popular to start bonfires with is just an example of what people think about it

markaspen

Bigross. Haaretz may be left of center, and left of your way of thinking; but it isn't the Manchester Guardian or Le Monde. Since we got Yediot and Haaretz, you'd think there'd be a major nationalist paper if there really was a gap in coverage.

To call it Leftist is a bit of an exaggeration. Go find some microfilm of Al Hamishmar if you want leftist.

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