I've seen more than one news piece declaring that American airport security ought to be more like that is Israel: faster, smarter, less brute force. For example:
http://www.thestar.com/iphone/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother
This is a mystery to me, because I have actually flown out of Ben-Gurion airport before, and it was nothing like the praise-filled descriptions I read. It was some years ago; maybe Israel itself has only become recently "Israelified." But when I was there, security took well over an hour, everyone was bunched into a huge line exactly as in the U.S., each person's bags were individually opened and rummaged, and everyone was interviewed by security staff. TSA porno scanners notwithstanding, it was much slower and more invasive than security here.
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