?Study abroad is a great way to regain a sense of the world outside of this campus,? reads one student?s testimony on the website of UW-Madison?s Study Abroad Office. For those studying abroad in Israel this semester during the assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Jabari and the ensuing week of rocket exchanges between Hamas in Gaza and the Israeli Defense Forces from Nov. 14 to 21, the experience in a society both at war and under siege was less out of a brochure in the Red Gym than a front page of the New York Times.
….UW-Madison?s safety policies for students studying abroad are largely determined by the advice and travel advisories of Cultural Insurance Services International, which provides insurance to study abroad students, and the U.S. State Department, according to UW-Madison Communications spokesperson John Lucas.