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Old Jul 17, 2009 | 9:53 pm
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murmurdoc
 
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Originally Posted by CanuckFlyer
. . . The secondary screening at Tel Aviv airport . . .
As subsequent posts demonstrate, that isn't secondary, that's primary. I fly YYZ/TLV regularly and the exit interview leaving Israel is always fascinating. I'm surprised OP didn't mention the pleasant young men who looked around and under his cab/car about a kilometer short of the terminal with very heavy artillery slung on their shoulders - don't see that at Pearson too often.

That aside, secondary is what you get when you are my brother-in-law who grew up (in Canada) speaking Hebrew (Israeli parents) and broke into the inter-agent dialogue in fluent Hebrew a few minutes after initially representing himself as a unilingual anglophone. And yes they have special rooms for that, and yes they feel about a million miles farther from Canada than you already are, and no he won't be doing that again . . .
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