questions at Vienna

The Israeli security questioned me for 45 minutes at Vienna. They were worried that I was such a friendly person that someone could have planted a bomb on me. I pointed out that only they and the Austrian Airlines staff knew that I was on an El Al flight. They wanted me to prove that there really was a group coming out after me, so I showed them the ticket inventory on my laptop -- it all took rather a long time -- they were particularly friendly though and must have apologized about thirty times for asking personal questions!!! The funniest one was 'do you have any Arab friends, Iraqis / Palestinians / Lebanese', I said 'yes I have many friends from all over the world'.

The people who did the security interview saw me at the gate when I was boarding, we looked at each other as if we'd known one another for years!