Educationally guided trips in Sderot:

During the past months (July& August 2012), SMC hosted 2,304 visitors from around the globe, welcoming 50 busloads of visitors in July alone.

Visitor profile:

• 1,404 Jewish students and young adults from English-speaking countries
• 540 Jewish students and young adults from Latin America
• 304 Christians and non-Jewish visitors
• 56 government officials and diplomats

The guided trip imparts the following information:

• Rocket fire is today threatening more than one million Israelis
• Experience of psychological terrorism
• Terrorist organizations in Gaza, in addition to Hamas, daily threaten Israeli lives
• Sderot as a symbol: An Israeli town, a modern western society that is being threatened by radical Islam
• Israel’s security challenges on its borders with Gaza
• Learning the consequences of unbalanced media coverage of our region influencing world public opinion; world policy affecting Israel’s legitimacy as a State