Israel's Transportation Ministry Failed to Secure Foreign Flights, Report Reveals
National Security Council Criticized Transportation Ministry Over Foreign Flight Checks
How 4 Israeli newsrooms (in Hebrew, Arabic, English) covered this story — translated into English and compared side by side.
By יהונתן ליס
What happened
An Israeli National Security Council report from last year criticized the Ministry of Transportation for its inadequate vetting of foreign flights. While the Ministry is responsible for foreign flights and the Shin Bet for Israeli ones, a lack of unified oversight and intelligence capabilities within the Ministry has been identified as a significant security gap, despite a law allowing for data collection on flight crews.
- 01NSC criticized the Transportation Ministry for failing to vet foreign flights.
- 02Responsibility for foreign flights was transferred from Shin Bet in 2021.
- 03Israel lacks a single aviation security body, unlike other nations.
- 04Minister Regev stated intelligence agencies, not her ministry, vet crews.
- 05A 2023 law allows, but doesn't mandate, crew identity oversight.
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