Don't care about the political situation or the history - there's a limit to how much control normal people have over that rather than their government - just as in the UK or any other country.
As for the people, they're a mix like people from any country.
My personal opinion is that Israeli travellers occupy the outer fringes of the traveller normal distribution bell curve. The best and worst of travellers. Obviously a generalisation, but that's what you asked for