This safety can for isolating suspicious items was
installed at one end of the
Wailing Wall Plaza shortly after my arrival in
Jerusalem (no correlation, of course), and I found another safety
ca
n at the opposite end of the Plaza soon thereafter. Also installed down the
middle of the Plaza were safe
ty barriers so that in case of an explosion, half of the
Plaza will be spared.
When I knocked on the safe
ty ca
n above, it didn't even sound hollow, so
its steel wall must have been pretty thick, quite understandably. Given how
nonchalant the locals were about the safet
y barriers or the safe
ty cans,
their appearances are probably quite frequent.
Travel Tip
If violence does flare up during your visit to Israel, it wouldn't be a bad
idea to avoid crowded places, especially those with a high number of
Israeli soldiers.