Flawless Airline Security on Israeli Planes
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- El Al Airlines in Israel has had a 100% success rating on its airline security for more than three decades: No hijackings, no bombings, no failed attempts aboard a flight.
And they have accomplished this spotless record WITHOUT invasive security measures. You don't even have to take your shoes off. You can even take on any liquids you want.
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It's this very security that has allowed EL AL to be the world's most secure airline. Only one plane was hijacked in its history, in 1968. After that nothing else.
Ethnic profiling. No question this is smart security. Good for Israel
And every plCe
is privy PCI express?
Not to mention it's cheap. Good for them!
Because if it walks like a duck...
@@hshissias3961 4.0
I have flown El Al many times, and the security is quick, efficient, and unobtrusive. That's because I have nothing to hide. If you're an innocent traveler there is no problem. As for airline service, I've been to Israel on TWA (long ago), Delta, United, Lufthansa, and El Al. They all had fine service. Politics has no place in airline security - you do what is necessary to be safe.
No problem if you havent travelled in Arab countries. If you have one wrong answer can lead that you cant get out of the country even though you was totally innocent. Its 100 more likely that you die as innocent in israeli prison than somebody explodes your plane. Also with good answers you can carry a bomb in your balls. If you go to back room to special check, you avoid the body scan and metal detector.. But the teen ager security guards are afraid to check your asshole or balls. Thats why Im really afraid to fly with El Al.
Marcus Johansson
Utter BS
Marcus Johansson
If you feel that you are targeted, profiled, or harassed by El Al then you should choose another airline. There are plenty of airlines that fly to Israel. No one forces you to fly an airline that puts you through such emotional distress.
Dave Glo
LOL I too have flown to Israel many times. And it was never quick and unobtrusive because I was targeted and profiled and "harassed" every time.Being a young (at the time), non jewish, European traveling alone But I have never once felt threatened by it. It is called "tight security" and has a reason. :-)
And that guy believing you can just "study the right answers" is not only silly with his persecution complex and irrational fear, he also is incredibly naive.
He should be profiled exactly because he seems incredibly gullible and therefor a likely easy mule .
In fact, he might the poster child for one of the profiles ;-D
Marcus Johansson Bullshit, it's not about what answer you give, it's about how you answer their questions. I traveled to Israel many times, and I'm what they might consider a threat since I'm young and not Jewish, and never once was I harassed by their security agents. All they do is look you in the eye and ask you a few questions to determine if yo're nervous or lying. I for instance am always nervous when flying because of my fear of flight, so most of the time, when I get to the security check person, I can see by the way they look me in the eye that they are a bit suspicious of me, but then they'd smile, and sometimes even comment on my fear of flying, and then they'd let me go. because that's how good they are, they can see that I'm innocent even if I look nervous, because they can easily determine the reason behind my nervousness.
The security check personnel are using techniques used by the Mossad to determine if you're lying, that's why if you're innocent the chances that you will be harassed (when I say harassed I don't mean an extra 5-10 min of questioning and your luggage going through a scanning machine) are very slim. My boyfriends father who is an Israeli Jew, used to work as a driver for the Israeli "security office" (I put the words "security office" under quotation marks, because in Israel everyone knows what working for the security office while being vague about it, really means). Even though he was only a driver, he was still trained like any other high profile worker, to spot if someone is lying to you, and to know how to interrogate people without them realizing that they're being interrogated.
This man can always see when someone's lying to him, and I nor my boyfriend could ever tell him a lie, even if it was over the phone.
So, you see, if even a mere driver for the Israeli security office can easily see when you're lying, a highly trained for that purpose security personnel could do in with their eyes closed. so believe me, if you've got nothing to hide, no one will bother you, and even if they did, I would still prefer to fly with El-Al because they make me feel so much more secure than flying with any other airline.
This is what airport security should be like all across the world.
not USA WERE STUPID
I will feel more comfortable and secure with EL AL airline
I am an Egyptian Canadian and I have nothing hide except my love for Isreal and Jewish people
spoken like an honest gentleman.......or woman !!! ???that was very well put.
***** that is true. The Egyptian government has good relationship with Israel but there are a lot of Egyptians who still live in the past with Islamic extremists mentality . It is a very cold peace . I am canadian Egyptian and like Israel very much .
Adel M Im israeli and im so happy to hear it! we trying to do the best in israel🙂
Adel Mounib
Wouldn't it be amazing if these two countries could be real friends?
@@ossian108 ye why wont israels leader calm down:/
El Al is maybe more expensive, but your life is worth it. I hope...
I think El Al is a great Airline with great security
You should not profile people.
GOOD, no PC bullshit at the expense of safety. How the world should be!
i will say that the security in Tel Aviv has been ramped up in recent years, I recently went through in 2011 and I was grilled at 3 am in the morning with extremely personal questions, was held up at security and almost missed my flight (all because of my i pad and I pad case), they also opened my suitcase, and gave me a hard time with my broken luggage zipper and then held me there for 45 minutes and needed to accompany me to the check in counter. I was stressed we'll just say, very stressed
One last remark: I've once watched an unsurveiled black bag left alone in a corner of Ben Gurion airport shopping area. I'm not scared easily so I stayed and watched. 15 minutes later I decided to tell a security lady. She casually walked to the bag, picked it up, asked aloud "Who's is this?" and then stayed put as the owner showed her the contents. A camera. Had that been a bomb, well...
I think both the fear of an attack and the belief in security, are bigger than the reality of either.
This is the ideal model for effective Security.
I have a family member who has traveled to Israel a few times and she said the they have the smartest and least threatening or invasive approach to airline security. Personal interviews with people trained to recognize threats. She said she would rather go through the Israeli airport than any other in the world.
We need to use them as a model for the U.S.
This is exactly how airport security should be
As an American...I'll take the Isreali way of Airport security...TSA is a big joke!!!
Not exactly a perfect score. El Al had one hijacking in the 60s, which resulted in zero casualties. I believe it was the longest highjacking in aviation history.
Ethnic profiling is using basic human intelligence that the Almighty gave us. Bravo Israel!
@lucymia
1) I still fail to see what sort of booking info would need to be "forwarded" to the airline and how that would make a difference when going through security to board a plane.
2) Ignite - "to set on fire" This does not mean "go boom." Perhaps you should look up the word "fuse."
3) When one says they have a "flawless security record" it means - No hijackings, no bombings, no failed attempts aboard a flight...it has nothing to do with names on a passport.
"Asked a few questions" it says---Yeah right. My wife and I (White British Caucasians in our 50s travelling to Eilat for a diving holiday) were seperately interrogated at great length, by student age interrogators who then changed places and we went through the whole process again. They then went off a short distance to compare notes on our answers before finally allowing us to board. Questions included when and where we first met, and got married, multiple questions about our dive training and where we have dived around the world. They demanded to see our dive cards and log books which they read through..And I was a serving UK police officer for god's sake!
P.S. Many other airlines have also not had a hijacking in the last 30 years, without all this crap.....
+82648947 The questions of you and your wife sounds reasonable to me.
And yet managed to get home safely. I'd say a good job to those interrogators.
Don't know what you said/did but you did do something to raise security's suspicions... Perhaps just an attitude? e g "I'm a British Police officer, I'm something special."
You could say that you are a Properly trained Law Enforcement Officer in the UK and present a Badge if needed. Only if you are Authorized by the British Police. I know impersonating an Officer is Illegal.
@lucymia
1) What difference would that make?
2) Well, for one thing, the expert said "1 second"...but on top of that, no, "ignite a fuse" does NOT mean "to go boom" immediately.
3) Obviously it's not JUST about the questions...it is based a lot on who is answering them...meaning just because a terrorist is a good actor does not mean he can hide the way he looks, where he is coming from, etc. (Don't forget we're talking about a flawless record for over 30 years. R u really going to argue?)
There's no trick to getting through customs and immigration. Tell them what they want to know; let them look at everything. Have no expectation of privacy. It's the same in every country.
US has an epic batting average. No high jacking since 2001, with nearly 700 airports in the country. Israel has one functioning airport.
I'm sorry, only 15 minutes, 15 minutes?! Racially profile me all damn day, please, only 15 fucking minutes!
agreed
You guys need to come over here, and relieve the TSA of what they're doing. Please.
@Mindraker1 At no cost at all. Most if not all of El Al's flights are nearly at capacity every time I fly them.
People that ALWAYS get checked more then once from experience. I'm a white male mid 40,s always travel alone.
- me
- anyone traveling alone
- anyone flying out of Amsterdam especially if traveling alone
- any black people traveling alone
- black people with kids
- black people alone with African accent ( enhanced extensive evaluation )
- single parents traveling with child ( enhanced extensive evaluation )
- Muslims
Would it be possible to have Link stasis a metal door and go flying thru security with it wacking the door a bunch of times and riding it over the security agencies?
May the Lord of Moses and Jacob shine his favor upon the people and land of Israel. God has your best interests Israel, you are fruit of his eyes..
A perfect security score... but at what cost?
Good question.
Did anybody notice that terrible landing though!
@darthgrahf yeah they have to have ex air force experience because air force training is optimal for being hit by amissile and all that. also they have to be able to use a firearm in the case of a hijacking.
Israel also has more strict conscriptions laws in effect. I'd say 90 percent of the population has had some sort of military training.
Gee, and here I thought it was those damn yodellers we had to look out for ;)
Smart guys, I have to say.
I LOVE YOU ISRAEL....
GOD BLESS ISRAEL....
It's no racial profiling, they are like 90 different parameters, like when did you buy the ticket, did you have tick back, etc, when you reach the 20 secs interview you already have AI allocated danger coefficient. If you are Muslim Israel which fulfilled his service in IDF, for example, he would receive only the 20 secs basic interview (AI would take into account).
Israel security manages to prevent a terror attack when an Irish pregnant woman when his boyfriend (PLO operative) sent her with an explosive device without her knowing even. It's called the Hindawi affair
They ask few questions to really see if you are lying . They are train to detect body language
@WideWorldOfWisdom
1. I dunno, depending on how the intel is forwarded, some random Dutch site might not care enough to forward it at all? I don't know about the technicalities so I wonder.
2. According to the dictionary it does, but if not, wonderful.
3. The record isn't flawless either. My family name is A in Europe, but B in Israel. So depending on which passport (2 names, 2 nationalities) I travel with, I'm a different person with a different record.
Hey, how can I find this article on Wall Street Journal's website? I did a search and I can not find it. Do you remember the original title and headline of the article?
@lucymia What's your point?
God bless Israel!
unfortunately very true words
@satojinnthehero They have to have Air Force pilot experience? They can't just go to flight school after their required military service is up even if they worked with planes in the IAF?
I got singled out because of my age and I'm a white US Christian
so pretty much it's great for the majority but unfair for the minority. i've been through this once in U.S.A.
lived in u.s.a. for 5 years went to japan. passing a checkline to go back to america we had to wait a long time because we had a visa and no green card. happens everywere. worry about what your own countrys doing
Good
3 things I don't get: 1, does the airport also receive intel on you if you don't book El Al, or if you book through some random, say Belgian, cheap flights site? 2, "He will be dead 3 seconds after he ignites his device" - yeah well "to ignite" means "to go boom", so by the time the terrorist ignites, everyone's dead, right? And what about good acting jobs/liars? I know someone with family who has worked for Dutch companies in Lebanon, he lied about this successfully or else he'd been screwed.
3:16 kidnap the airplane? LOL.... You kidnap a person, but you hijack the plane.
Also, often I'm not checked much. I'm a single young person who's travlled with a German passport so far. Sometimes they don't ask anything, much less when I don't fly with El Al. Alitalia don't give a damn, for example. I mean, they don't even ask for your pet's "required" papers. Honestly, all this talk about airtravel security is only impressive when you don't have your own first-hand experience that says otherwise. My mom's a diplomat. With her by my side, NO checks.
India can learn a lot from Israel
Well ethnic profiling would be unconstitutional in the US, so we have to deal with TSA
Great airport!
You forgot to mention that in each flight of this airline there are some crew members flying as a civilians carrying fire guns to avoid any dangerous situation
They mentioned the air marshals
That is up to Israel. But I don't know if I can be comfortable with that. I'd rather not fly El Al Israel Airlines as I feel uncomfortable around anyone other than UNIFORMED Police Officers (USA, UK, European Union), UNIFORMED Military Personnel, and other UNIFORMED Enforcement agents that are PROPERLY AUTHORIZED to carry firearms.
Thank you israel !
You save many lifes !
הכי בבית באלם
We can't compare US and Israel , US can learn a lot , Israel has more learning curve then US , we will catch up
God bless Israel.
WTF ...... you talking about........
i'm not Muslim, i was raised Catholic but no longer follow the religion, my theory was because I was travelling alone or that i'm an easy target. Attitude played no part in it I was tired and did my best to maintain my composure but when you hold me up at security because you think my i pad is an explosive and I know I have a flight leaving in an hour, yes i did get stressed but it's not like i bitched at the agent, no i was very polite about it all
And if your family lived happily among Muslims, why are you living in the UK now?
I'm calling bullshit !
Best
Literally checked behind my ears and my balls. Will never recomend elal.
@101HeyNow
This is supposed to be satire right?
How can you proof this claim. D'uh!
@WideWorldOfWisdom That nothing about this system is flawless and ethnic profiling doesn't eliminate ALL risks.
Old procedures today its even more sufisticated
so basically if you want to highjack an aircraft flying into Israeli airspace (with some Israelis on board) the idea would be to fly an airline other than El-AL! Certainly the questioning and profiling from London Luton to Tel-Aviv was non-existent!
Wow fantastic Best countries Israel so beautiful
I GIVE ISRAEL NUMBER ONE SECURITY
@lucymia Um...yes...dead, immediately. Have you ever heard anyone say something like that when they are actually on a plane "for fun?" Of course not. People understand how serious that is. You say the word "bomb" in a terminal and an entire airport can shut down. You're lucky if you just get arrested.
You're so concerned about getting blown up at a moment's notice, yet you want to leave room for idiots who might be "only joking around?"
You can't have it both ways.
Are muslims aloud to fly elal?
No
BRAVO BRAVO ISRAEL VERY GOOD
This is Earth? What the fuck happened here? Why is everyone entangled in strife? Is anyone sane on this planet anymore? Was there ever anyone sane on this planet? We act like a disease not a beautiful harmonious creature.
What??
israel is the jewish homeland since 3000 years ago this is the jewish promised land given them by god promised abraham and is son isaac
@424404047 there is no smoke without fire what goes around comes around my friend! why doesn't swiss air's security is not as vigilant ???
I understand that the security is efficient with the results, but it can be crazy at times. Racial ethnic check is quite annoying and it can be demeaning or insulting to others. Basically anybody who isn't Jewish or of any white ethnicity will be questioned for a long time. Also, the security checkpoints are really intense I mean they took my DVD player-disassembled it and sent it back to my home after a month and I WAS CHARGED. I get their concept but it can be quite hectic.
Gymfan444
You should blame the people who try to kill Jews. There is plenty of them. Being insulted doesn't last - being dead is worse. If there was no threat the controls would be more relaxed.
U can't compare the israeli security to the one in US..since no hijacking of plane from israel..they will be more worse off from the US if a hijacking takes place....
You're right when you state that you may be wrong. Palestinians are Arabs, most Arabs -and hence most Palestinians- are Muslims. As a result, most if not all Muslims will sympathize with other groups of Muslims regardless of what the cause is. You are ignorant to imply that 9/11 did not contribute in some way, shape or form as a result of the conflict between the Israelis' and Palestinians'. You really need to study-up on geopolitics to have any credibility when posting on a forum like this.
Love Israël
Not at all. You wont get checked only for being or not being part of a certain race. They will check you depending on age, religion, race and where you are from. So basically, a christian black man from Los Angeles with a two way ticket would not be bothered while a white man born in the United Kingdom who lived the last 20 years in Iran with a one way ticket and very little clothes with him would be interregated for hours.
This is the old TLV terminal the shitty one has been replaced by the new one..... though I do love the Middle Eastern air hitting me when getting of the plane stairs.
GOD bless you ISRAEL
No because most Israelis rather pay more and accept that it will take longer to get to the destination then to get killed etc.
Nah, you got it mixed up man
Check your vocabulary
What you mean is Discrimination
Profiling is the process described in this vid
Have a safe flight dude, those bad bad security racist guys are making it safe for you
Fly El Al and you can expect to be subject to lengthy interrogation bordering on abuse for up up to several hours. Anyone who is of Middle Eastern/South Asian/Muslim origin or who has a passport stamped in any of these countries, or who is openly critical of Israel's persecution of Palestinians, or who falls into more than one of the above categories, can be expected to be a suspect until proven otherwise. So flying with this airline, or to the country it represents is simply not worth it because much of the world's population is suspect to them. Myself, I would not fly El Al if you paid me to.
^ And I wonder if Palestine, once they become a country after four times of rejecting offers for their OWN statehood, would, when they designate a national airline, have their security personnel respond similarly to criticisms of the terrorist Hamas regime and how it uses Palestinian civilians as human shields as they try to execute their religiously extreme and genocidal aims.
EL AL
god is logic
The real Jews are black-/////-synagogue of satin runs that airport 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Old but can women be pilots? I mean, women can be snipers in Israel.
You still didn't answer my question. I don't care if your parents moved to the UK or you did - the question is WHY did you move to the UK? Economic opportunity? Religious persecution? Something else or a combination of issues? I don't believe you when you state that you lived with Muslims peacefully. But I can understand why you would want to dodge the question.
Also,
most palestinians DO have crappy conditions to live in - most of them live in refugee camps, incl. in Gazza, thanks for generations of Hope for the Destruction of Israel. A tool in the hands of the Arab world they were made the forever victim by their brothers.
They don't fight the "Occupation" of the West Bank or a certain half an acre on the Lebanese-Israeli border, they fight for the dissapearance of Israel.
You can share their view but do admit you believe Israel needs to go.
all their pilots are ex air force pilots.
WTF?!
I can see your point regarding my mentioning 9/11, but I wasn't simply saying Arabs Are Arabs- I was reffering to 9/11 as a test case. Does it come as any surprise the plotters, executers and (the aftermath) popular support were Arab?
It doesn't, does it?
Not PC, but real.
Can you seriously judge profiling in airports?
Lets go on looking at 9/11 -
Good ol' Osama, our friendly Yemenite mass murderer, had a clear streak of criticism for the USA for its support for Israel. It is recorded (cont).
pioneermci
EL AL offers much better service than European and US airlines. I have tried all.
Religious profiling: Sorry....don't believe in 'sky daddy'
They go through your phone if you are not Jewish, apartheid state
@WideWorldOfWisdom Believe it or not, there are morons out there who will make such jokes, or actualy mentally challenged people who will repeat what they've heard on TV. Not everybody cares or knows how serious the situation is and not everybody knows about the "kill first, think later" policy. NO other real life situation would be handled like that, unless your weapon is sharp and confirmed. Words alone warrant arrest, maybe elimination of the imminent threat (knockout), but not death.