I accept the risk and I know that if I am really concerned, I should just keep it under the limit. But I'm trying to understand what the most likely scenario is so that I can assess the risk accordingly.

I also never had it weighed (flying into and out of Africa and Europe).
Anecdotally it varies with the destination when departing DXB. I have heard that flights to destinations on the Indian subcontinent are more often checked than others (presumably based on experience with heavy carry on in the past).
Is it all in one piece of hand luggage? In J you are allowed 2 pieces of up to 7 Kgs each so if your 10-12 Kgs is in one piece you could split it?

Thanks, it is reassuring to know that weighing carryons at the gate is not common.

I presume it is common to weight carryons at the check-in desks? Is that right?

If so, it would really come down to whether or not I'm able to perform online checkin. Sometimes flights to TLV cannot do online checkin due to the need to perform verbal security screening. Has anyone departed from HAN and had carryons weighed at the check in desks?

I have two pieces of hand luggage - a backpack and a standard sized roller board. The 7kg limitation in J is a bit nuts for me. I'm used to flying Israeli and European carriers who routinely allow 12-16kg in business and US carriers who don't even have a limit.

Thanks for the assistance!

In my experience, at check-in counters for F and J they usually just eyeball the hand luggage, and it’s usually for pieces not weight. I almost always fly HBO, with three pieces, in the 10-12kgs range, and can only recall once being made to check-in a bag over hundreds of sectors.

Every time I have been asked a question about my hang baggage, it’s been at outstations in West and East Africa. Haven’t done TLV with EK before, but I think you should be fine.

As DYKWIA said, if it worries you, probably best to just check in the bags.

I know this has been asked before, but I don't see any recent responses so I am hoping my re-asking is not too annoying. I am traveling in business class on Emirates on a newly refitted 777 (Newark-Athens-Newark, non-stop). I have an Away hard-sided roller bag which is 9x14.5x21.7". The website states that the max depth allowed is 8". I am wondering how rigid they are about this rule (one response on this site said that in one cabin the storage was only 8"high. I was hoping to take that plus a small soft-sided backpack as carryon. Has anyone had any recent experience about whether they measure the roller bags? Many thanks!

I've never seen carry on actually measured. I've been asked a few times to show my hand baggage, but as long as it's not massively oversized, I wouldn't worry.

People on here have mentioned their baggage has been weighed. There's a 7kg limit per bag.

Ahhh you cant beat Emirates and the service they offer

Thank you so much for the quick response! I will try to keep the weight to the 15lb max.