Hi Ștefano,

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 1:09 PM, Stefano Rivera <stefa...@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Giacomo (2019.03.21_12:49:20_+0200)
>> So they relay much on screening (you will see at airport: many questions,
>> different steps and queues, but you still can keep liquids).
>> I really doubts you will have the laptop confiscated for "no particular
>> reasons". As I wrote, Israeli security is very professional (and less
>> security theater), they, for sure, know that there is cloud, if one should
>> "import" nasty data.
>
> That was my experience from the visit I made to the venue, too.
> Immigration was just a couple of questions, without needing to see any
> documentation. Probably better than my average US Immigration experience
> (and I have far too much of that).
>
> On leaving the country (just before the gate to board the plane) I was
> questioned a little more in-depth. Esp. about any previous travel to the
> middle-east. Again, no searches or documentation required.
>
> That said, I'm pretty low risk to them, as an employed middle-class
> white guy.
>
> SR
>
> --
> Stefano Rivera
> http://tumbleweed.org.za/
> +1 415 683 3272

If you admit to travel to the Middle East you will be excluded from visiting 
again. Also if they see a stamp on your passport from a middle eastern country 
they will deny entry. They often ask and check for the stamps on entry too but 
because they can’t spend that time in each visitor it is done randomly and 
mostly focuses on people they believe to be Muslim or Middle Eastern and of 
verifies you get denied entry and set in immigration hold and put on the next 
commercial flight back to your country of origin.

This is precisely one of the reasons it should be a concern for Debconf being 
in Israel because Muslim or Middle Eastern contributors will be denied entry.

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