Turkey and Thailand are two very popular destinations of travel-happy Israeli tourists. Both have recently reopened for tourism after the coronavirus pandemic, and Israelis are flocking to them in droves, defying a government warning against nonessential travel to these destinations due to specific information about Iranian terrorism intentions to avenge the killings of senior Iranian officers and scientists.

On May 30, Israel’s Counter Terrorism Bureau issued a warning against travel to Turkey, citing specific Iranian threats against Israelis visiting and working there. On June 6, Israel added Thailand to its travel warning, based on Thai police information and last year’s arrest in Indonesia of a man carrying a fake Bulgarian passport whose interrogation yielded information signaling Iranian attempts to attack Israelis in Thailand.

After spreading hints about alleged involvement and conducting all sorts of briefings regarding a change of policy on Iran, Israel is now trying to distance itself from the flurry of assassinations, accidents and strange deaths of senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers and Iranian scientists on Iranian soil in recent weeks.

“Israel has not taken responsibility for any of these five deaths, and I am not at all sure that one entity is responsible for all of them,” former Military Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Yadlin said in a June 6 interview, noting that Iran could actually be behind one of these cases.