US gets backstage pass to Israel’s airports
Posted on May 10, 2007 • By Rebecca Markowitz
Category: Technology |
How do they think of those magic security questions? How do they check your bag with magical cloths and get results in 2.2 seconds? How do they sell sandwiches for 90 shekels? I guess the US airport authority heads gave up and had to come to Israel firsthand for a behind-the-scene look at Israel’s security practices. It reminds me of when I was a kid and I wanted my older brother to tell me how to do a magic trick. I would beg and beg and beg until he caved in. But afterwards, he would make me promise never to tell anyone. Magician’s honor. Security is Israel’s best kept secret, so just giving it away like this leaves me feeling a little vulnerable. From now on, though..let’s promise we won’t tell anyone else.. magician’s honor. The Jerusalem Post reports,
A group of US airport authority heads this week got an inside look at the running of the Israeli airport system in the hopes of learning new ways to improve the overall security and efficiency of US airports.
The five-day trip, organized and hosted by the Foreign Ministry, included meetings with Israeli government officials and officials at Ben-Gurion International Airport, as well as meetings with Israeli high-tech companies which specialize in airport security technology.
On Wednesday, the group viewed, amongst other things, the luggage screening and sorting process and the airport’s emergency response services.
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