I would not recommend that anyone traveling to Israel take the side trip to Bethlehem. We did and of all the time we spent traveling in Israel this was the scariest.
Your guides hand you off to Palestinians and for the next 4 or so hours they hold you captive. They want your dollars but they don’t want you.
I don’t know why the Israelis haven’t kicked every Palestinian out of the country this situation can not continue.
Not suprising, they want that jizra tax.