Originally Posted by
Espada III
fill you with a certain measure of confidence that the security people actually know what they are looking for.
I had heard this one about Israeli security many times, so on a first visit there earlier this year was most surprised at the differences to the stories.
Far and away the most incompetent was departing Ovda airport, where the security crew seemed to be entirely trained-last-week 18 year olds. That went for the supervisor as well. They had no clue about the various scanning equipment when it didn't perform to spec, and just messed about among themselves for nearly an hour. It really was like a convention of TSA clueless.
Another internal flight on Arkia from Tel Aviv Ben Gurion domestic terminal had a thoroughly disorganised check as well. Then after a gross delay was announced we could go back landside to the restaurant, then just come through a single, straightforward, unprofiled check to get back in airside again.