If you go to Russia and report something too negative for too long, you'll probably be expelled and never be allowed in again. But there's a chance Putin would

If you go to Russia and report something too negative for too long, you'll probably be expelled and never be allowed in again. But there's a chance Putin would invite you to drink his special tea. If not you, your sources. Or that you'll feel so full of guilt for your slanderous reporting you'll spontaneously decide to jump out of a window. Obviously reporters prefer safe and easy locations. Israel lets you be in a warzone but be in relatively little risk.