Israel airport security

Court gives ex-lawyer president Efi Nave suspended sentence for border fraud

Efi Nave was sentenced to a two-month suspended sentence for violation of customs border security at Ben-Gurion Airport in 2018.

Efi Naveh appears in court, January 16th, 2019
 Passengers wait to check in at Ben Gurion airport

Long airport lines have become the ‘new normal’

Mortar bombs extracted from a recently excavated Six Day War era Syrian bunker

American tourists bring unexploded bomb shell to Israeli airport

El Al plane

Flight from Tel Aviv to Kiev delayed after passenger refuses to wear mask


Disaster averted at Ben-Gurion: Drone flies dangerously close to commercial airliner

Unmanned aerial vehicle flies illegally in area surrounding the airport; the drone's operator is yet to be located.

Unmanned aerial vehicle (illustrative)

RyanAir announces 30 euro flights from Europe to Eilat

The 6 weekly flights will originate in Budapest, Hungary; Krakow, Poland; and Kaunas, Lithuania.

File photo of passangers leaving a Ryanair aircraft at Modlin airport near Warsaw, Poland June 26, 2014.

‘Everyone was thankful that we didn't take off with that plane’

One woman may have helped cancel a flight ready to take off from Israel to Moscow after hearing strange noises from plane.

Ben Gurion Airport

ISIS hacks Australian airport website with threatening message to Israel

The website of Hobart International Airport was replaced with a pro-Islamic-State message; The airport's operations were not affected.

A screenshot of the message hackers put on the Hobart International Airport website

High Court rules on racial profiling at Ben-Gurion Airport

Court dismisses a civil rights petition, but leaves the door open for future cases.

Ben Gurion Airport

Bulgaria transfers 2012 bus bomb case to Burgas amid new evidence

Chief prosecutor: Bombing suspect has officially been identified, but not yet revealed; hearing delayed due to processing of new evidence.

Bulgaria bus bomb 370

Real-estate broker steers Israelis to New York

When people started getting tired of having to take a train into the city for an hour, that’s when the city got interesting, in terms of real estate, realtor says.

New York City skyline 370