#Ben Gurion Airport
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by David Karsh
Desperate to find a restroom after a nearly nine-hour flight from Johannesburg, South African university student Klaas Mokgomole grabbed his carry-on and hurried off the plane.
Urgently searching out a gate agent at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport and praying that the man understood English, Mokgomole asked, sincerely, "Can you please show me to the blacks-only restroom?"
Mokgomole - then a South African university student and outspoken youth leader of the anti-Israel, Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement - stood in the busy airport restroom dumbfounded as Jews and Arabs went in and out. They would have been oblivious to the transformation taking place as they stepped around him on that day in July 2015.
Recalling that seminal moment, Mokgomole explained to the Tazpit Press Service during a recent visit to Jerusalem, "I was taught very emphatically, racism in Israel runs so deep, that the Jews do not even share their toilets with blacks or Arabs."
"To see within the first few moments after landing in Israel that this clearly is not the case marked a turning point for me," he told TPS.
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One on the ground. One taking off. Two Wizz Air A321neo jets in Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion airport. March 2023.
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What to expect at 🇮🇱Ben Gurion🇮🇱 Airport:
✈️ ARRIVING
When you get off the plane you will need to stop at the passport kiosks. They are not labeled. They’re the silver machines with screens to scan your passport. No one will tell you to use them but I highly suggest you stop and scan your passport. It will give you an entry pass. This will come in handy later.
Go down the ramp. I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this you do not hold Israeli citizenship, so you’ll want to stick to the right. It’s actually very well labeled. I say “actually” because things in Israel rarely are. This line will be much longer than the line for Israeli passport holders. Wait in it and deal with the merge/bottleneck situation that occurs before passport control.
At passport control you’re going to hand over your passport and your entry pass. If you don’t have an entry pass they’ll give you a dirty look so get the entry pass (at those inconspicuous scanners I mentioned earlier). Go up to the window with everyone in your party - if you don’t, they’ll ask you who you’re arriving with and then you’ll need to call those people up. They may then ask for some people in the party to step back as they ask one or only some people questions. Just answer their questions. Usually it’s brief, they give you your card and you’re on your way.
Out of passport control you’re immediately at more scanners that look like the passport kiosks I mentioned before (that I hope you stopped at!). You’ll scan the card passport control gives you, the gate will open, and you’re in baggage claim.
It’s the Wild West now. Grab your bags (can’t miss baggage claim or the screens assigning flights to belts). Declare things at customs if you need to (can’t miss the sign - it’ll be on your left as you’re heading out into the main area of the airport). Genuinely, once you’re through passport control things get much easier and it’s very easy to figure out. (Signage isn’t great in Israel but the signage we do have is in Hebrew, Arabic, and English so I have the utmost faith that you’ll be able to figure it out.)
Getting out of the airport - call a Gett or take the train to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem or wherever you’re staying. The airport train is decent but I don’t recommend it if you have a ton of luggage. If you’re taking a taxi, sometimes they’ll charge you extra for putting your luggage in the trunk so hold it on your lap, if possible.
Shalom! You’re in Israel.
✈️ DEPARTING
If you are not checking bags -> proceed to the line straight ahead. It will be shorter and no one will have big luggage. This is the line for people that are not checking luggage. [Skip to 3]
Assuming you are checking bags -> When you arrive to the airport to leave, look to where your airline is. There will be two long lines on either the left or the right. Go to the line that is nearest to your airline’s ticket counter.
Wait in the line. Sometimes it takes ten minutes, sometimes it takes an hour. This line is not for your airline — this line is interrogation 1/♾️. Do what you did in passport control: approach with whoever you’re traveling with and answer the questions they ask honestly. They may tell some of the party to step back so they can speak to specific people, just let them do their job. Their questions may feel a bit intrusive (Why did you come to Israel? Where did you stay? What is your relationship with the people you traveled with? Who packed your bags? What’s in your bags? Have you been to Israel before? Do you speak Hebrew? Do you have family in Israel? Do you belong to a temple?) but they exist for a reason. Once they find your answers satisfactory, they’ll put a sticker on the outside of your passport (We’ll come back to the sticker…)
For those who are checking bags -> After they put the sticker on your passport they’ll also put tags on the luggage you plan to check. Proceed to your airline’s ticket counter. Give them your passport. Put your bags on the belt to be weighed…all standard airline ticket counter checking bag business.
Proceed toward security. There will be two security lines. One of the left and one on the right. If you’re reading this, I can almost guarantee you’ll be in the lane on the left. The right is the line for Israel passport holders…the exception being any that have visited high threat countries recently or that the security agent felt needed more vetting. If you’re confused and want to make sure what lane you’re in, show an agent that handy dandy sticker. That number on the sticker will help them determine your lane.
The line on the left, because it’s typically non-Israelis, is always longer and always involves more questions and scanning. Wait in line. You get called up to an agent one at a time. We don’t take off shoes. We do put electronics and anything in pockets in a bin. We also require you to open your bags and let the agent look around. And by look around I mean they’ll shove an explosive trace detector (looks like a microphone) in your bag. If you have a suitcase, you’ll need to open your suitcase. Even though no one is right over your shoulder, you are still very much in view of everyone else so I don’t recommend having anything you don’t want anyone to see at the top of your suitcase. They may also ask you to move items so they can see what’s at the bottom…basically, pack with this in mind. I guarantee they do this with checked luggage as well but at least when it’s checked, the underwear I packed is being viewed in private.
Once they’ve deemed your packing to be sufficient they’ll bring your bin to the scanner and put it through. You push your bag through. Then you walk through the metal detector. The agent will be watching your items as they go through. They are watching while there is also a radar tech watching. If they proceed to ignore you, you’re good to go. I don’t know what to tell you if you get stopped for any reason…
Congrats! You’ve made it! Go to duty free! Daven at Chabad! Stop at what is likely to be your last kosher McDonald’s for awhile! Israel has thoroughly criticized and judged you in a way that only Israel can and you survived. Proud of you. 😏
#Ben Gurion Airport#Israel#travel tips#israel tips#safest airport in the world#also the judgiest airport in the world#had to ask a friend that works at the airport for some of this#if you’re not from Israel and you’ve traveled here feel free to share tips!#sorry this is so late 🫣
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During the first coronavirus lockdown in the spring of 2020, all activity in Ben-Gurion International Airport screeched to a halt.
Well, almost all.
A female cat who had established herself as the unofficial mascot of passport control apparently had a tryst with an unknown boyfriend in the quiet terminal.
Read More: Israel21c
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Airport At Nighttime
photographed by Israel Bardugo
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El Al flight delayed after Stowaway Birds refuse Mixed Gender Seating
By Yekutiel Bornstein & Mark Levy
Last Updated 8/29/2023 at 12:50 PM
Ben Gurion Airport, Terminal 3: The Times of Israel reported Monday that an El Al flight from Tel Aviv to New York was delayed due to stowaway birds in the cargo hold. Yet the story failed to report the specific reasons for the delay: numerous birds refused to sit next to birds of the opposite gender for reasons of religious…
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Israel Divided
The issue of Judicial Reform is coming to a head in Israel. At the heart of the matter, does the Supreme Court of Israel have too much power?
Luke 11:17 But He knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and a house divided against itself falls. -Jesus
“I call on all the demonstrators in Jerusalem, from the right and from the left, to behave responsibly and not to act violently. We are brothers.” -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The issue of Judicial Reform is coming to a head in…
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Israel reinstates PCR tests at Ben-Gurion Airport
Israel reinstates PCR tests at Ben-Gurion Airport
Travelers returning from abroad can be tested for COVID at the government’s expense. Testing is voluntary, for now.
BY SHIMON YAISH
(August 23, 2022 / Israel Hayom) Starting on Wednesday, Ben-Gurion International Airport will reinstate a service that most travelers probably didn’t miss—PCR testing for people entering Israel.
The tests are being funded by the government and are voluntary, at…
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NEW AIRSTRIKES ON GAZA STRIP TARGET TERRORISTS - BUT A CHILD IS AMONG DEAD
NEW AIRSTRIKES ON GAZA STRIP TARGET TERRORISTS – BUT A CHILD IS AMONG DEAD
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 14 people, including a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), in the Gaza Strip. At least one child was also killed according to Gazan authorities. On Friday, a blast was heard in Gaza City and smoke was seen rising from the seventh floor of a tall building.
Israeli Strike on Gaza
Another house was destroyed by an airstrike hours later, but…
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Planespotting at Ben Gurion Airport
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🚨 BEN GURION: Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport were asked to lay on the floor after an Arab who stole a vehicle broke through the airport’s security checkpoint and entered the airport complex earlier this morning.
Security guards shot the Arab man; no Israelis injured. - @jewishbreakingnewstelegram
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The Wizz Air experience.
Like Spirit but for Europe. Owned by the same company.
#travel#tel aviv#ben gurion airport#airport#airplane#Airbus#Airbus a321neo#a321neo#flight#wizz air#lowcost#yzshot#air travel#low cost#aviation#israel
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The Airports Authority decided on the move after negotiations with the workers’ committee, after almost all foreign airlines stopped flying to Ben Gurion Airport due to the war, the Hebrew version of the Ynet News website reported on Monday.
“600 employees will be placed on unpaid leave (and) 1,000 more will be reduced to 75% of their (current) jobs,” the Israeli newspaper reported, citing official sources.
For its part, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported that the number of workers at Ben Gurion Airport is 4,600 employees. Following the job cuts, the number will be reduced to 3,000.
The global demand for travel to Israel has decreased significantly since the launch of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, and the Israeli war on Gaza.
The majority of international companies have suspended flights to and from the Israeli airport.
. . . continues at PC, 18 Des 2023.
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Ben Gurion airport: US family spark panic by bringing unexploded shell - BBC
Ben Gurion airport: US family spark panic by bringing unexploded shell – BBC
Ben Gurion airport: US family spark panic by bringing unexploded shell BBC
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TLV Airport At Night
photographed by Israel Bardugo
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