Political Commentator Slams Transportation Ministry Over Security Lapses
Translated & summarized from Srugim by baba
The story in 4 lines · by baba
- Commentator Amit Segal criticized the Ministry of Transportation's security failures.
- Failures involved monitoring aircrew and pilots from hostile countries.
- The ministry allegedly failed to use a national database for tracking.
- Segal called the situation a "real scandal."
Political commentator Amit Segal has sharply criticized the Ministry of Transportation following the exposure of serious failures in monitoring and tracking aircrew and pilots from hostile countries, revealed in the wake of a dramatic flight incident. In a post Segal published, he pointed to a central failure in the ministry's conduct regarding the National Passenger Diagnosis Center. Segal emphasized that the national database had previously proven its effectiveness, for instance, by aiding in locating missing Israelis in Vienna. However, the Ministry of Transportation chose not to utilize it at all.
Segal stated that every relevant ministry should have authorized employees to access the data and perform relevant analyses, such as the Ministry of Health for incoming passengers from countries with epidemics, or the Ministry of Transportation for pilots from hostile nations. He attacked the Ministry of Transportation for never authorizing employees, not submitting any queries, and not paying its share for the database. Segal questioned how the country would identify pilots from hostile countries if the ministry failed to fulfill its basic obligation to be interested, calling the situation a "real scandal."
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