I've not yet flown through TLV, so all I have is what I've heard:
1. Profiling all passengers starts the minute they walk in the airport
2. People are watched to see who drops them off, what they do, what they carry
3. All bags inspected
4. All passengers questioned thoroughly
5. Passengers who do not speak Hebrew or have Israeli passports questioned harder (?)
6. All passengers screened through metal detectors and go airside
7. I would assume plain clothes guards airside are still watching for suspicious behavior
8. All flights have armed FAMs
Is that about right?
My point was, Israel does not have many airports...help me out here...Tel Aviv, Eilat and maybe Haifa. Any more?
The US has literally hundreds of airports, each with a staff. Once you clear security at any one of them, in theory you are cleared airside anywhere in the US. To implement Israeli style security at US airports would first off bring air travel to a standstill due to the large volume of flights, and second would require hiring and training thousands of competent professionals. In addition, they would need to be paid well enough to keep them at the job.