Every time I leave Israel security personnel at Ben Gurion question me for an hour.
I don't mind. I know why they are doing it and it's good practive for me speaking Hebrew.
Other than that security in Tel Aviv is less annoying than in most places. They are not obsessed with belts and shoes or fluids. A can of deodorant travelled with me from Tel Aviv via Amsterdam to Dublin and was finally caught half a year later in Hamburg.
One time I arrived in Heathrow from Tel Aviv and was trying to catch my flight to Dublin. I had two hours. I didn't make it. Heathrow security thought that terrorists are most likely to arrive from Tel Aviv and therefor did lots of long security checks on transfers arriving from Tel Aviv continuing to Dublin, i.e. me. I would have thought that any terrorist arriving from Tel Aviv in Heathrow would already have missed his chance!
A few weeks ago security personell in Hamburg, always trying to avoid racial profiling accusations by avoiding Muslims like the pest, picked me for a bag search event. They had me remove every single item from my carry-on and name it. That went well for a while until I opened a small pocket compartment, removed a book from it and said "prayer book". At that point they apparently realised that I might be a Muslim and they immediately ended the search and let me go. (I am not a Muslim and it was a Hebrew prayer book I carry with.)
All-in-all I find those security checks amusing. But I do think that Saudi-Arabia should pay for them.
After all, they paid large amounts of money to the people who made them necessary, and why should they be excused from from fixing what they broke?
