Ben Gurion Airport

John Mica Attacks TSA 'Chat-Downs' As 'Idiotic'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Airport Screening, Video, Israel Security, Aviation Safety, Tsa, Boston Logan, Tsa Pat Downs, John Mica, Ben Gurion Airport, Aviation, TSA Security, Transportation Security Administration, Gao, Transportation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House committee that oversees the Transportation Security Administration blasted the agency's recent test of "chat-d...

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Talk To Me: TSA Wants To Know Where You Have Been, Where You Are Going

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.04.2011

BOSTON -- Katherine Dombrowski wasn't expecting a quiz as she waited in the TSA security line at Boston's Logan International Airport. But that's what...

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Pro-Palestinian Air Protest Blocked In Israel

AP | JEREMY LAST | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Tel Aviv, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Social Media, Gaza Strip, Ben-Gurion Airport, Gaza Flotilla, Israel, Europe, Air Travel, World News

TEL AVIV, Israel — Aided by Facebook, Israel on Friday prevented scores of pro-Palestinian activists from boarding Tel Aviv-bound flights in Eur...

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Israel Braces For Pro-Palestinian Activists' Arrival At Airport

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion Airport, Gaza Activists, Gaza Flotilla, Israeli Airpot Crackdown, Israel, Europe, World News

JERUSALEM — Israel dispatched a beefed-up security force to its main international airport Thursday and asked foreign airlines to prevent blackl...

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My Flight out of Tel Aviv, With a $60 Fee for an Empty Suitcase

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jordan, Tel Aviv, Queen Alia Airport, Amman, British Airways, Ben Gurion Airport, Airport Security, Israel, Israeli, Travel News

I am returning to Tel Aviv in nine days, and already worried about having to go through the unreasonable Israeli security. But one thing is clear, I am not traveling from Tel Aviv again if I can help it.

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What Israel Can Teach the World About Airport Security

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, United States, Ben Gurion Airport, Airport Security, Northwest 253, Terrorism, Northwest Airlines, Israel Security, World News

In the wake of the thwarted terrorist attempt on Northwest Flight 253, it's time to revisit the Israeli model of airport security, as other countries ask what more can be done to prevent such near-catastrophes.

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Thinking Outside the Box on Airport Security

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport, Diane Dimond, Air Marshals, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Airport Security, Thinking Outside the Box on Airport Security, Tsa, Department of Homeland Security, Terrorist Richard Reid, Politics News

There is a hue and cry across the land for tighter security at airports following the thwarted Christmas day terror attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutalla...

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Goldstone Report Is a Barrier to Peace

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Richard Goldstone, Palestine, West Bank, Barack Obama, Gaza, United Nations, Israel-Palestine, Ben Gurion Airport, Hamas, Two-State Solution, World News

There are many things wrong with the Goldstone report, but most important, it has set back prospects of peace by making it far more difficult for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank.

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Israeli Soldier Kidnapping Suspected, Central Israel On High Alert

Paul Korda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Ben Gurion Airport, Israeli Military, Israel, Soldier Kidnapped, World News

The huge security operation to search for this allegedly missing individual underscores Israel's fears about the welfare of its soldiers. The Jewish state has gone to great lengths to secure the release of its soldiers - or even their corpses

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UN Human Rights Envoy Denied Entry To Israel

Jerusalem Post | HERB KEINON and JPOST.COM STAFF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, West Bank, Israel Denies Un Envoy, Gaza, Un Human Rights Envoy Israel, Richard Falk, Israel, Ben Gurion Airport, Palestinian Human Rights, World News

Richard Falk, the UN Human Rights Council's special rapporteur on the situation of Palestinian human rights in the West Bank and Gaza, was denied entr...

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