Originally Posted by SJCFlyerLG
No, but I do despise useless window dressing security.
My post was meant as a guideline. It's been my experience with Israel security that short and too the point is all that's required. If you start to pontificate, they are only too happy to lead down many different paths, especially when there is a trainee present. Stick to answering questions briefy, and the experience will be no more than 10 minutes.
Obviously these people are trained to detect un-truths, so the less you volunteer, the less chance you have of accidentally contradicting yourself.
Sometimes the questioning borders on the ridiculous. I was taking AC via Toronto to US. The question was, why was I going to Canada. My answer: I am not going to Canada, I am changing planes in Toronto. Obviously, this guy would have freaked out if he had met a FTer doing a MR.
He had never flown out of Israel ( as my own interrogation revealed!) and I explained to him that many times a US carrier such as AA will reroute a passenger via ORD or DFW instead of St. Louis. That did not mean the passenger was going to that hub as his/her final destination. He let me though in seconds and then started questioning some suspicious looking nuns
