<p>Turn on the television news and you’ll hear about an attempted car ramming or a stabbing attack. Tune in to the radio and you’ll hear about a man clobbered with a motorcycle helmet in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-723897" _mce_href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-723897">road rage</a>&nbsp;incident. Open up the newspaper and you’ll read about extortion and “protection” rings operating in the South.</p> <p>Not to mention horrific reports of car accidents, polio outbreaks, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/sabra-hummus-recalls-over-2000-containers-over-salmonella-outbreak-663908" _mce_href="https://www.jpost.com/international/sabra-hummus-recalls-over-2000-containers-over-salmonella-outbreak-663908" target="_blank">salmonella in Sabra hummus</a>. It’s enough to make you shout out the title of that 1961 musical: “Stop the world – I want to get off.”</p> <div class="hide-for-premium"></div> <p>Surrounded by a drumbeat of negative news in this country, a recent survey on the least and most safe travel destinations around the world, by a US insurance comparison website called The Swiftest may come as a jaw-dropping surprise.</p> <p>According to this study, Israel is the fifth&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-717223" _mce_href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-717223">safest</a>&nbsp;among the 50 countries in the world most widely visited by tourists. No, you didn’t read that wrong. The fifth safest, not the fifth most unsafe country to visit.</p>