If you think Britain’s 53 questions are overly intrusive, you’d love the interrogation you get before you fly El Al to Israel. The first time I went there a tag team of interrogators spent about 20 minutes reviewing the story of my life. However, they were polite and professional. Once I got over my annoyance about their intrusion into my personal business, I actually enjoyed it. An El Al interrogation is one of the few times that a person is actually interested in listening to a person else talk only about himself.
It was really interesting to observe how one interrogator would ask a question and then, five minutes later, another interrogator would re-phrase the same question. That probably happened a dozen times. At first I thought they were either dimwitted or had a short-term memory problem, but then realized that this is part of how they trip up someone trying to deceive them.
Very interesting. They ask you how you are doing, but unlike most people that ask, they really do care :)