Special Report: Inside the World's Most Secure Airport

1. ARRIVAL
Checkpoints at the two main entry roads are guarded by Uzi-armed soldiers and inspectors who review documents for every car. Suspicious passengers and vehicles may be searched.

2. DROP-OFF
Curbside baggage checks are nonexistent, and cars must quickly drop off passengers or head for designated parking lots. Armed undercover security staffers monitor entrances and can stop and question passengers before they go inside.

3. Q&A
All passengers are interviewed by security personnel trained by the Israel Aviation Authority in conjunction with Israeli intelligence and security agencies. Interviewers, who often are students with some military combat experience, look for such warning signs as nervousness; lack of a concrete reason for traveling into, out of, or through Israel; and a suspicious travel history. "Risky" passengers may be sent to private rooms for questioning and searches. Employees are regularly tested by undercover colleagues.

4. CHECK-IN
Check-in proceeds much as it does in the U.S.A., but airline staff focuses solely on airline matters.

5. UNATTENDED BAGGAGE
Uniformed and undercover security guards are trained to detect unattended baggage immediately; if not identified, the bags may be destroyed.

6. BEHIND THE SCENES
Working with a variety of intelligence agencies, Israeli agents scout out bomb threats, check flight manifests, and monitor terrorist cells worldwide. Relevant findings are relayed to ground personnel at Ben Gurion. The airport is also fully integrated into Israel's military operations and is monitored for external threats; on-site military aircraft are available for its defense.

7. TO THE DEPARTURE GATES
The two staircases to the boarding area are under heavy surveillance, and passengers may ascend only after presenting security personnel with boarding passes and passports, which are tagged with stickers that may change color or appearance throughout the day. Once upstairs, passengers may not reenter the check-in area.

8. CARRY-ON BAGS
Technicians trained by the same governmental bodies as their Q&A counterparts screen all hand luggage, using mostly Israeli-made devices. Staffers are in constant contact with other security personnel, and are warned of any suspicious passengers heading their way.

9. WASTE DISPOSAL
Trash bins made of impact-resistant plastics are designed to explode upward.

10. CARGO
Before arrival, shippers are prescreened and must provide details such as company history, origin of products, and destination, all of which are double-checked. Cargo destined for El Al flights is placed in a decompression chamber to find and contain pressurized explosives.

11. BOARDING
Passengers present boarding passes and passports to airline staff, who check for security stickers. They then descend to the tarmac, where buses shuttle them to their planes. Undercover guards patrol both the departures area and the tarmac. For all El Al flights, armed, plainclothes "sky marshals" circulate among the passengers and can prevent suspicious passengers from boarding.

12. ON BOARD
On El Al flights, cockpit doors—two sets, the outer one made of steel—are secured once pilots have taken their seats, and remain so throughout the flight

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See what terrorism has caused.

Their checks/targets are mainly on explosives.


Anyway, they are God's own people.

Any attempt on them na war.


Explorers, come and rate one of your student's project.

Aggressive questioning, long luggage examinations and strip searches are not uncommon at Israel's national airport

The Israel-based British-Cypriot businessman says he negotiated a compromise in which he kept the computer and several pages, checking in the rest of the documents.

While standing in long lines, walking through scanners and removing belts and shoes are a fact of post-September 11 travel worldwide, Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport seems to stand alone with its security techniques, often leaving travelers dumbfounded. Though Israel denies profiling travelers, business executives, journalists and especially Arabs and visitors to Palestinian areas seem especially prone to being targeted with aggressive questioning, long luggage examinations and even strip searches.

bomb shelter

K9 Unit at the airport

An Israeli woman stands on a step-on scanner during a security check at Ben Gurion Airport

you will certainly be questioned before you even get to the check in counter.

The infamous security stickers.

For those who don’t know, Israeli security have a system for judging how much of a threat you are, and how much you will be questioned and searched later on down the line.

Do they stamp your passport?

This is still one of the most heavily asked questions by first time travellers to Israel, and the simple answer is no, they don’t.
It is an unfortunate reality that – just like Israel views certain stamps in your passport as a security issue, a large number of countries in the middle east and beyond view having an Israeli stamp with equal distrust. In some countries this may get you a bit of heavy questioning at arrivals, in others it will bar your entry completely.

So what do they do? They give you a very handy little piece of paper that you can keep in your passport and then discard when you get home or onto your next destination. You get one when you arrive, and one when you leave.

ah shoki!!

It is important to remember that even though there is a chance you may be considered a risk worth searching, this doesn’t mean anything terrible will happen, it really just means you will be questioned and your luggage searched.

I have also heard rumours of a 6T for extreme threat levels, and I really would not like to be in the shoes of anyone who gets that sticker!


The luggage screening and security checkpoint.

After you get designated your number, the next guard checks your sticker and you are directed to a specific line.

Then the waiting begins.

I got a five, so that meant a couple more questions, a step through the metal detector and a thorough bag screening and check.

Then time stopped. My bag – just like every bag before it – was in that X Ray machine for what seemed like a lifetime. The guy sat on the other side staring at the screen casually chatted to his companion as they gave my bag more doses of radiation than the Incredible Hulk and acted as if they were binge watching an entire season of Game Of Thrones on Netflix. It certainly seemed to take as long.

Eventually my bag went through the other side of the machine and I was waved through the metal detector. No problems there, so the guard swabbed my hands and feet – again nothing that doesn’t happen at every other airport – then politely asked me to take a seat while she searched my bag.

sure thing every time.......

But where is lalasticlala sef

Nawa o, just because u wan enter isreal when it is not heaven. Angels wey dey heaven doors no go even search person like dis before we enter.

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