> the territory is zoned Haifa is not zoned. It's inside Israel, which once entered you're free to wander around. > there are military checkpoints Given the

> the territory is zoned Haifa is not zoned. It's inside Israel, which once entered you're free to wander around. > there are military checkpoints Given the threat posed by terrorism, blaming the Israelis for having military checkpoints on their land borders is kind of disengenious > depending on your ethnicity Arabic is an official language of Israel. 20% of its people are Muslim. I've never witnessed a security check where men wearing a Taqiyah were treated different. Please ride the Jerusalem tram, which is packed almost 50/50 with orthodox jews and orthodox muslims and tell me, this is an Apartheit-state and not a place of civic order. > So if you are Muslim for instance you could be banned from attending the conference. No, you're not. As the place of the conference is Haifa, once you've managed to pass border-customs at the airport your movement is unrestriced inside Israel.