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El Al only conducts thorough searches of people who rouse their suspicion. ..which is very few people, percentage-wise. Unlike the TSA, they profile passengers -- psycholigcally, religiously, ideologically, ethnically, etc. Evidently this leftist prof (who spent her childhood all over the Muslim Middle East) somehow triggered their suspicion. Sure they make a mistake from time to time, but that's the nature of the war.