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Aug 16, 2017 | 11:13 am

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Originally Posted by Ditto

Same for the first time I flew with Ms. Ditto, we arrived 3 hours before (as the first/previous time she travelled to Israel on her own, she was "profiled", despite having done none of the above), there was some extended questioning for about 5 minutes, and that was it, the next times were even shorter.

Single European and American women traveling alone are also profiled.

From The Atlantic:

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In fact, based on the profiles in operation at Ben-Gurion, single European and American women traveling alone are most often singled out for special treatment, albeit because of a frightening precedent involving a Jordanian, Nizar Hindawi, who tried to place his unknowing (and pregnant) Irish girlfriend on an El Al flight out of London with a bomb in her carry-on luggage.

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