Originally Posted by
awayIgo
Most tourists go,through security in under 5 minutes. I travel back and forth to Israel on my American passport without problems. The trick is to be polite, honest and patient. If you show attitude security will want to figure out why. Questions may appear to be nonsensical and repetitive. Just go with it! If you are a legitimate tourist you shouldn’t have problems.
Flying in/out TLV airport is one thing, and border crossing is another.
For some reason they seem to flag tourists who enter the country via land borders for extra scrutiny at airports. (to the extent that a friend who has been several times to IL via TLV and had no issues got the "full security treatment" the single time she entered from Jordan, which on top of questioning and hand baggage search included delaying her check-in bags for 2 extra days)