OT: How the Israelis do Airport Security

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It appears that the Israelis use both prior intel, and a lot of “people sense” to screen passengers for potentially troublesome ones, and it is only the ‘potentials’ who get the more intensive
screening. The Americans treat all passengers like potential terrorists.

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From the interview – they assign a number 1-6

1” is you’re super awesome “6” is you’re fucked and in for several hours of humiliation.

1 is reserved for white Jewish Israelis,
2 is for white Jewish non-Israelis and friendly internationals,
3 is a suspicious Israeli or international,
4 is sometimes given to non-white Israelis
5 is for Arab Israelis or questionable internationals(oftentimes 5 or 6 will be given to political dissidents just for the humiliation)
6 is for Palestinians, Muslims, and hostile internationals

Anything 3 or above means interrogation. If you are a white friendly international that comes with somebody of Arab decent you will be given 3 or above – meaning you are suspicious

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3931210,00.html
Prof. Donna Shalala, who served as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services for eight years under Clinton and is currently the president of the University of Miami, was held for two-and-a-half hours at Ben Gurion Airport during which she underwent a humiliating security debriefing because of her Arab last name – all this despite the fact that her hosts notified the airport ahead of time that she is a VIP.

[Bubblesitter]

I flew El Al from London to Tel Aviv about 10 years a go, happen to be the same week that the US embassy there was closed for the very first time due to some unspecified security threat.

I was impressed with the airline security, extremely thorough. However, applying a similar system would grind US travel to an absolute crawl. I don’t have the stats but US airline system must be 1000x larger.

Similiar experiences to above, tag team separate interviews with my colleague, looking for suspicious activities. They looked through every piece of luggage by hand very thoroughly, spent a good 15min on mine.

Must have been 4 to 6 British securiy around the gate area all armed with automatic weapons.

As we pulled out of the gate I looked out the window, there right next to us was an APC armored personnel carrier, escorting us to the runway!

I felt very safe and would probably only fly El Al to Israel again. They know what they are doing.

[Bubblesitter]

I flew El Al from London to Tel Aviv about 10 years a go, happen to be the same week that the US embassy there was closed for the very first time due to some unspecified security threat.

I was impressed with the airline security, extremely thorough. However, applying a similar system would grind US travel to an absolute crawl. I don’t have the stats but US airline system must be 1000x larger.

Similiar experiences to above, tag team separate interviews with my colleague, looking for suspicious activities. They looked through every piece of luggage by hand very thoroughly, spent a good 15min on mine.

Must have been 4 to 6 British securiy around the gate area all armed with automatic weapons.

As we pulled out of the gate I looked out the window, there right next to us was an APC armored personnel carrier, escorting us to the runway!

I felt very safe and would probably only fly El Al to Israel again. They know what they are doing.

[Bubblesitter]

I flew El Al from London to Tel Aviv about 10 years a go, happen to be the same week that the US embassy there was closed for the very first time due to some unspecified security threat.

I was impressed with the airline security, extremely thorough. However, applying a similar system would grind US travel to an absolute crawl. I don’t have the stats but US airline system must be 1000x larger.

Similiar experiences to above, tag team separate interviews with my colleague, looking for suspicious activities. They looked through every piece of luggage by hand very thoroughly, spent a good 15min on mine.

Must have been 4 to 6 British securiy around the gate area all armed with automatic weapons.

As we pulled out of the gate I looked out the window, there right next to us was an APC armored personnel carrier, escorting us to the runway!

I felt very safe and would probably only fly El Al to Israel again. They know what they are doing.

[Bubblesitter]

I flew El Al from London to Tel Aviv about 10 years a go, happen to be the same week that the US embassy there was closed for the very first time due to some unspecified security threat.

I was impressed with the airline security, extremely thorough. However, applying a similar system would grind US travel to an absolute crawl. I don’t have the stats but US airline system must be 1000x larger.

Similiar experiences to above, tag team separate interviews with my colleague, looking for suspicious activities. They looked through every piece of luggage by hand very thoroughly, spent a good 15min on mine.

Must have been 4 to 6 British securiy around the gate area all armed with automatic weapons.

As we pulled out of the gate I looked out the window, there right next to us was an APC armored personnel carrier, escorting us to the runway!

I felt very safe and would probably only fly El Al to Israel again. They know what they are doing.

[Bubblesitter]

I flew El Al from London to Tel Aviv about 10 years a go, happen to be the same week that the US embassy there was closed for the very first time due to some unspecified security threat.

I was impressed with the airline security, extremely thorough. However, applying a similar system would grind US travel to an absolute crawl. I don’t have the stats but US airline system must be 1000x larger.

Similiar experiences to above, tag team separate interviews with my colleague, looking for suspicious activities. They looked through every piece of luggage by hand very thoroughly, spent a good 15min on mine.

Must have been 4 to 6 British securiy around the gate area all armed with automatic weapons.

As we pulled out of the gate I looked out the window, there right next to us was an APC armored personnel carrier, escorting us to the runway!

I felt very safe and would probably only fly El Al to Israel again. They know what they are doing.

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