Originally Posted by
GUWonder
We don't know of any successful attempts by jewish Israelis to blow up an airplane flying out of TLV.
We also don't know of any unsuccessful attempts. We know of no attempts at all by Israeli Jews.
Originally Posted by
goalie
goalie-dad was born in cario (turns the big 75 this october but i digress), came to u.s in '48 and became a citizen while serving in the u.s army during the korean conflict and like me, he usues his passport for i/d when travelling even domestically and has gotten a few funny looks from the tsa i/d checkers. so, after all that, what type of issue (if any) would this create for goalie-dad now in travelling to israel?
It should cause no problem at all. The majority of Israeli Jews were either born in Arab countries or are the children/grandchildren of people who were. It is not at all rare here and the screeners will not be suprised about it.
Moreover, even if your father were born in Cairo, was not Jewish, and still lives in Egypt there is no legal impediment for him to visit Israel. The two countries have signed a peace treaty which allows that. (Although he would probably get more questioning in that case.)