Isaac Yeffet Quotes

• Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber – reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian – the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.

  Isaac Yeffet

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  Tags in Off, Why

• We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter.

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  Tags in Security, Protect

• We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open – anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants.

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  Tags in Public, Walk

• We have an illusion of security, we don’t have security.

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  Tags in Security, Illusion

• They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for – you profile – you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers.

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  Tags in Find, Problem

• There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air.

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  Tags in Best

• There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel.

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• Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.

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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Help, Human

• Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?… Terrible. I believe there’s technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.

  Isaac Yeffet

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Wife, Realize

• Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

  Isaac Yeffet

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Dangerous

• As the head of security for an airline, I can’t ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist. This is why we need air marshals on every flight.

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  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Lives

• After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we’ve learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country.

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  Tags in Lost, Different

Isaac Yeffet (12)

Nationality:	Israeli
Profession:	Intelligence Officer

About

Isaac Yeffet is an Israeli intelligence Officer. He has spent most of his years in the Israeli Secret Services in the field of anti terrorism. This includes investigation of terrorist activities- penetrating the operations of these terrorists- culminating in dozen of arrests and terminations. He was Deputy Director of Security of Operations for the Israeli foreign ministry- during which time he established the security standards for all of the Israeli Embassies- Consulates- etc. As the Director of El Al Airline’s security- Yeffet was responsible for formulating its total security procedures.

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