How Israel handles airport security

Re:How Israel handles airport security by RyanMcGreal on Monday November 15, 2010 @08:34PM (#1908708)

>It sounds from the article that the Israeli airport security personal are all ex-IDF.

Every Israeli adult is ex-IDF, except for those adults who are still in the IDF.

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Re:How Israel handles airport security by wheels on Monday November 15, 2010 @11:31PM (#1909040)

Not true. About a quarter of men and a third of women do not enlist: http://www.haaretz.com/news/idf-nearly-28-of-israeli-males-a...

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Re:How Israel handles airport security by RyanMcGreal on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @10:28AM (#1910340)

Thanks for the correction. I assumed my general statement wouldn't be universally correct, but I didn't expect the number of exemptions to be nearly that high.

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Re:How Israel handles airport security by eliben on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @02:42AM (#1909424)

"Every Israeli adult is ex-IDF"

I wish it were true, but it's not. Many people are exempt from service on racial, religious or just ideological reasons. Mind you, it's not always easy to be exempt, but some sectors of the population have an automatic "pass".

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