I find it interesting when someone who advocates carrying an unloaded gun (with a charged magazine inserted) invokes Israeli something or other to justify it.
I know some trainers and other people who have had significant contact and training time with current day Israeli "cool guys." They did not carry unloaded guns. They carried their pistols with the chamber loaded. What may have been universal over there in the past probably isn't anymore. Everyone knows someone who was in the Israeli military, but not all of them had the same training or duties.
The reason for training to carry empty pistols was a lack of uniformity in the pistols carried. It was to accommodate training virtually everyone in the country the same way, but who carried a wide variety of pistols that had different manuals of arms.
I know some trainers and other people who have had significant contact and training time with current day Israeli "cool guys." They did not carry unloaded guns. They carried their pistols with the chamber loaded. What may have been universal over there in the past probably isn't anymore. Everyone knows someone who was in the Israeli military, but not all of them had the same training or duties.
The reason for training to carry empty pistols was a lack of uniformity in the pistols carried. It was to accommodate training virtually everyone in the country the same way, but who carried a wide variety of pistols that had different manuals of arms.