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Ditto
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)
This may be common, but it's not universal. When we crossed into Israel at Aqaba/Eilat in March 2017 (five minutes, BTW, if it took even that long) we had no unusual scrutiny leaving via TLV ten days later. (We've left via TLV enough times to have a good sense for what the usual scrutiny is.) Of course, things could have changed in two years, and it could be that we're not in the demographic for which they care about where one enters the country.