Originally Posted by
Efrem
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.
Of course nothing is "universal" about TLV security, it's just a couple of data points I have which seems to suggest that entering via Jordan/Egypt is rather likely to increase the security hassle in TLV.