Israeli carry is an obsolete artifact, promotion of such is solely due to specific cultural inertia, and this isn't generally relevant for American shooters.
Scene: you are in a desperate scenario. You need to train as many otherwise inexperienced people as fast as possible to operate a pistol, except everyone in the class has a different pistol (a significant amount of which might not be drop safe).
The solution? You teach the most basic operation possible that works on every semiautomatic pistol, regardless.
If you have silly things like the luxury of being able to select a modern drop-safe pistol and the ability to train as much as you care to, I would dare to suggest that perhaps Israeli carry is perhaps inappropriate.
The average gunfight lasts mere seconds. Are you so skilled and lucky that you specifically intend to waste the first half of the gunfight merely activating your pistol?
With the slightest amount of forum searching or Googling, you can find videos where Israeli carry has failed. Without really trying, you can probably find videos of a jeweler taking three tries at the slide and failing, a shopkeeper fumbling the slide rack getting himself and his son killed, and even a sandwich store robber inducing a malfunction upon slide rack. Sure, "Glock leg" is a thing, but if you are such a firearm enthusiast as to be on this forum, it's probably not relevant.
So tldr; if I can train at my leisure with a modern pistol of my choice, why should I limit myself?
Scene: you are in a desperate scenario. You need to train as many otherwise inexperienced people as fast as possible to operate a pistol, except everyone in the class has a different pistol (a significant amount of which might not be drop safe).
The solution? You teach the most basic operation possible that works on every semiautomatic pistol, regardless.
If you have silly things like the luxury of being able to select a modern drop-safe pistol and the ability to train as much as you care to, I would dare to suggest that perhaps Israeli carry is perhaps inappropriate.
The average gunfight lasts mere seconds. Are you so skilled and lucky that you specifically intend to waste the first half of the gunfight merely activating your pistol?
With the slightest amount of forum searching or Googling, you can find videos where Israeli carry has failed. Without really trying, you can probably find videos of a jeweler taking three tries at the slide and failing, a shopkeeper fumbling the slide rack getting himself and his son killed, and even a sandwich store robber inducing a malfunction upon slide rack. Sure, "Glock leg" is a thing, but if you are such a firearm enthusiast as to be on this forum, it's probably not relevant.
So tldr; if I can train at my leisure with a modern pistol of my choice, why should I limit myself?