well, skiing in israel pretty much sucks. we only have one resort that on a good season is open for a month or so...
not much of a freestyle community, from what i know, there are just 8 freeskiers in israel including me..
it kinda sucks that most skiers in israel are just into recreational skiing...
when i started to get interested in freeskiing i googled and found out NS..
as for the last question- there is an israeli-palestinian conflict, some times it's better,some times it's worse. i live in northern israel, not really close to palestinian areas so it doesn't effect my everyday life.
however,some of my friends go to college just about 2km from the gaza border-hence they're more affcted, terrorists launch rockets towards israel from the gaza stripe almost on a daily basis.