Shocking! The airport authority should ask for forgiveness and compensate largely the humiliated cancer patients.

it's more than 10 years that I travelling back and forth from Italy to Israel, and every year the checks are more invasive and less serious, inducing people to perplexity about effectiveness and personell qualification. Security check are starting to be mainly a way were some people are abusing other people.

Apparently, the qualifications of these people is determined by a high score in arrogance and a low score in common sense

I have two knee transplants and when I go through security at Ben-Gurion I tell them about the transplants, and all though I have to be checked by a security agent, I have never been asked to take off my clothes and I get the same treatment at all airports.

The security staff at Ben Gurion Airport are notorious for their lack of respect, lack of courtesy and lack of sensitivity. And bear in mind that the treatment of Israelis is way better than that accorded to foreign visitors. One would think that the job of the security staff is to make sure that foreigners will never come back to Israel. The fact that the head of security was involved in this case of ill-treatment, shows that the contempt of travelers is not just a question of bad manners on the part of the usually young staff. This attitude -- which has nothing to do with security -- comes from the top and seeps down through the entire organization.

So special ??? Everybody gets humiliated at Ben- gurion airport .Seriously though , I feel sorry for these poor folk and wish them a full and speedy recovery G-d Willing.

Their security people act in such ways that I just don't have words for it. They seem to lack anything resembling common sense.

Israeli security forces and airport authorities have been doing this for over 30 years for Palestinians and others, no apologies ever heard. Come on!!! are Israelis of a superior race!!!!

Israeli's KNOW about the 'very important security checks. When trips are being organized for people with special 'needs or other problems...the Security Services should be NOTIFIED on forehand, so they can take their precautions aswell and put on the block. They are only doing their duty, and doing it very well.

Who as the Palestinians can know what Security check means ?! He who has no shame delights in humiliating others .

This episode sadly is not surprising at all in Ben Gurion airport.

And what kind of 'precautions' are the airport authorities supposed to take in view of the arrival of a group of people with special needs? Come on, this is pure nonsense, the security staff in Ben Gurion is mainly staffed by ill-mannered, dull and underqualified people, who usually walk around like zombies, asking all sorts of stupid questions, hardly related to the security of the state of Israel

I've undergone semi-humiliating security checks in San Francisco and in Frankfurt, where I got felt up/patted down in front of everyone because some spare change in my pocket set off the alarm. Frankly, despite the embarassment, I'm glad they checked so thoroughly; at least I know they're doing their job.

I wonder, if the security people at BG went to the same charm school as that rude twit I ran into in Frankfurt, Germany. Going back for the 1. (and last ) time after 40 years, some young guy in a uniform, seeing my US passport, must have thought to get even for WWII. He gave me a ream of garbage in school English just for asking where I could find the customs gate for flights from the US. Since I'm an old lady, I really tried to be nice. With all the powers invested in him by that uniform and I, dead-tired from the flight, he finally managed to goad me into letting him have it in the purest, local dialect from my younger days, liberally sprinkled with expressions that I prefer not to translate and would not have dared to use in front of my mother. He was so surprised to hear it from this old Ami, he became literally speechless. His buddy, having watched the show with barely concealed amusement, now laughed uproariously, and was then kind enough to take me to the appropriate gate, apologizing for his co-worker, while I apologized for my language. Unfortunately, it seems that uniforms, regardless of color and purpose, affect some people's behavior in some very peculiar ways.

for those check up. you see salma this got nothing to do with Israel in Europe the check ups r worse, you have to go throgh cat scan literaly, in those scans your everything r exposed literaly. either by hand or machine all the same, but it was all due to muslims who tried to explode airplains in more than one airport.

The same problem exists everywhere in Israel. Wherever someone has a little bit of authority, s/he uses it to the utmost, relishing every last drop of the humiliation, suffering etc caused to the victim. I refuse to believe that it is the natural standards of the average citizen. Sure there still exists the brash cocky egoists of the kibbutzim, but that is a dying breed. I have been pleasantly surprised on numerous occasions where ordinary young people often go out of their way to be friendly or help. Official behaviour is something quite different. I believe there is a simple reason behind it: that the State deliberately set up this situation in order to keep the plebs subdued. It's just one step short of the secret police state that one sees in totalitarian regimes.

no surprise, security jobs are reserved for the lowest on the totem pole in the USA

....of Palestinians, should be reminded that it is acts of Paelstinian terrorists that cause the need for intense security.

i was forced to undress by the israelis as a young boy & a teenager every time i'd come with my family to visit our homeland in the city of khaleel (hebron) and it always felt like those israeli soldiers enjoyed humiliating us, because unlike the case in your report, the stripping was a routine procedure that's not related to any metal detectors getting set off! so reading this article has quite put a smirk on my face, seeing how you find it acceptable to humiliate others while you can't handle one of your own being treated improperly!

The Stiff upper lipped prim and proper Security personnel in Heathrow are no better, they have also elevated humiliation to an art!

My girlfriend is Haredit. I took her to the states to meet my parents and visit her brother. NY-TX-LA. Each time we went through the metal detector her braw or hair pins set off metal detectors. She was "treated like a terroist" In one particularly humiliating (I made sure to take pictures... in the airport) she was placed in a class cage and searched by a hot blonde security personnel.) It was not that bad. It was not humiliating. and these cancer people never forget the fight they have. So please stop with the hoopla.

In Dubai they have a special tent set up for body checking women. This body checking is done by a woman in a niqab. Perhaps it is an idea to also set up a special tent where people can be checked like this. I'm sorry but persons who went through operations can also carry bombs on them. If they would be exempted from security checks, they make a perfect target for those who want to do wrong. But least what we could do is make such a check up to be felt less humiliating.

It is sad this happened to those cancer patients. It was naive of those in charge to not prepare those young people for the possibility of this happening. We need to make informed choices and weigh our decisions based on that information.I find it incredulous in today's world this would surprise, or anger anyone. This was a failure of adults respondsible for these young people, not the failure of those people who do a really good job of keeping millions safe. Do you think for one minute any of those involved for the security were pleased to do what their job required them to do?

it is because of your bombs that we have to have security checks!

Here you go, an apology: We are sorry that the world keeps persecuting us to the extent that we have to search people for bombs. I am ashamed that we so rarely think about how the fact that people are trying to murder us inconveniences other people. I cannot do much about it except ask your forgiveness and recommend that you stay away from our airports and shopping malls, cinemas and kindergardens, schools and universities, so that you will be able to live your life without worrying about that sort of thing. If you find sarcasm in the above you can keep it.

as long as their are arabs putting bombs on planes this will happen.it is nothing get used to it.it happens at every airport i have flown through including - dubhai - tough search even if you are in transit, zurich - the swiss are very thorough and all the eiuro airports. i would rather be humiliated then go down in flames. for our arab brothers -think of this - due to you everbody in the world travelling anyewhere on an aircraft has to go through this on every flight. if you are feeling a little huniliated we actually do not care - stop bombing innocent people everywhere in the world

Like everything else in Israel related to security, the military, or other positions of power, women are being pushed into being more aggressive than men to prove themselves - to the point of extremes. Add to this the ageism poisoning Israel of late, and you have megalomaniacal twits with NO common sense but plenty of "envy" calling the shots. It was NOT always this way, and we were NOT less safe then.

.. and there will be no need for "humiliating" airport checks!