Shin Bet: New system will ease checks of Arabs at airport

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The Shin Bet security service is to acquire a security system based on new technology in order to prevent the need for separate personal checks of Arab passengers in airports, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said Monday.

Diskin told MK Nadia Hilou (Labor) of the Shin Bet's plans during a special meeting Monday at her office in the Knesset.

Hilou said that once the new technology has been introduced, identical checks will be conducted for Arab and Jewish passengers and will no longer include body searches for Arabs.

According to Hilou, Diskin said the pilot program would begin this summer, and within a year would be widely used. The new system will apparently come at a high cost, though the actual price has not been released.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/831784.html

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1. Is this one of those "see through" things like at Phoenix Airport?

Just sayin'
To me it looked like a reason to fly into Tucson instead.