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The problem with the "Israeli Carry" method is that employing the pistol in a timely manner requires both hands, and under attack one may not have them both free.

My recommendation is that those uncomfortable carrying a 1911 in Condition One carry something else.

My recommendation is that those uncomfortable carrying any pistol with a round in the chamber don't carry, so that you will not be providing a pistol to a violent criminal who has hammered you to the ground or otherwise rendered you helpless. There are already enough armed violent criminals without providing them easy pickings to get more guns.

For many years, back when the 1911 was the pistol of the military, an NCO regularly - almost every working day - threw a cocked-and-locked 1911 over a six foot wall which separated two firing bays on an indoor range in the Pentagon, to demonstrate that the 1911 was drop safe.

It never fired.

Any gun that can be made to fire at all can be made to fire (1) at the wrong time, (2) in the wrong place, (3) in the wrong direction, and (4) for the wrong reasons. The fool's errand of attempting to manufacture 'safe' guns invariably results in the creation of impotent guns. -- John Farnam

John Moses Browning designed the 1911 to be carried in condition one, with a round in the chamber and the safety on. Carrying that pistol, for defensive purposes, in any other condition is foolish.