Please link your company & other projects in your profile so I and other tech women know we're not welcome in your efforts. Seriously. I'm done fighting sexists, I just want to know where you are so I can avoid you.
The security is also in place in a modified fashion at flights returning to Israel from other countries. They hire and train and house their security overseas - another reason the job is so attractive to young people.
I also have dual citizenship and lived in Israel for 6 years.
The point about smart people & this being an attractive first job is a key one. It's also well-compensated and looks good on people's CV's. No one is looking at this as a career.
The other thing is that Israelis have more common sense about security than Americans do. We're used to having our bags checked at the movie theater and the mall and no one grumbles about it. We also don't leave bags unattended and report the ones we do see.
You have to understand the neighborhood in which this happens. This blogger has been fighting a losing battle for years now. The community is so incredibly insular that instead of Dave being a hero for what he does, he's considered to be, well, you saw the footage from the community meeting (and you don't know what he had to do to even get that far, they tried to ban him from those too when he first started, even though he's a resident and entitled to be there).
Gerritsen Beach is its own place. I'm not excusing it, but it explains so much.
The worst part about career ladders at Microsoft was that it put people who were great engineers but terrible, terrible managers in positions of authority, because there was only one advancement path. When I left,they were just starting to create a career ladder for individual achievers, because they had finally realized this. I don't know if it actually ever happened.
I lived in Israel for 6 years. I do not want to have an Israel/Palestine debate, I just want to talk about airport security. I go insane at airports in the US because these people do not know what they are doing. In Israel, they hire the best and the brightest just out of their army service to do airport security. They have their pick of applicants because the jobs are well-paid, and offer fantastic benefits, one of which is the chance to live abroad in the various countries served by El Al. Housing and stipend paid for.
I understand that much of what El Al does for security screening amounts to racial profiling. But surely we can take what they have established and work with them to make it better and conform to US laws and civil rights. I am sad because we don't even try.
Instead, we have underpaid dolts who don't know what a bookmark is (happened to me).
I'll never require it, but clients want it. Demand it. Even if they can't articulate why. We can strongly disrecommend it as a strategy and advise them to why but I'm not walking away from business right now. Because if we refuse to do it, someone else will do so gladly. At least we've tried to educate them as to why it's a bad idea, and maybe some day they'll come back and ask us to remove it.