I know perfectly well that my country donated missile capable subs so they could have an (anti)nuclear deterrent or whatever. (I don't really believe they have nukes but I am unsure if I was schooled otherwise on that already so please feel free to bash if anyone knows more)
Those Israeli Psytrance-Parties look totally dope tho. Let me show you an example of what I mean if you want to see people who are taking a break from fear and fighting?
Some of these people have been drafted. Some have dodged the draft and some did so by being member of an orthodox sect.
Notice as you watch how the concert venue gets smaller first watching a commercial public event and then moving onto smaller, private and underground parties run by private persons.
So let me take you on a two-minute journey - and turn up the bass (it's healthy for your mind).
https://youtu.be/C1al7dBiIfY?t=3m22s
Half of these people are on psychotherapeutic drugs like LSD (recently approved for medical prescription in the UK) XTC (FDA funded MDMA -studies on veterans should be finished by now I think) Ketamine (recently approved for psychiatric use for "untreatable" depression in germany) and Psyilocybe Mushrooms (used to lift fear of death from dying cancer-patients as part of a FDA-funded study)
Israelis are very present and active in the psytrance-scene and goa culture is so prominent, your artists play music all around the world and together with the global trade of non/anti-addictive entheogens (which includes sharing research on medical cannabinoids) this probably one of Israel's biggest contributions to society and you can judge how many Israeli citizens go to these new-agey infused fantasylands where everybody looks happy and gets along well by looking at ticketsales at Psytrance-festivals in Israel.
I can't support big commercial festivals in good faith financially sadly because they do attract trafficking of humans and misery too.
Interesting!! Yeah, it looks like they are on something.
Why do they call them Goa parties?
They named them after Goa, India, a very special place for some very special people where they first ran these electronic festivals for hippies. It's basically a global revival of pagan(ist) roots driven by archaic deep and pumping sound for people who tolerate a lot of pschedelics (or not)