Parents Forget Child in Airport, Fly to Paris

I feel bad for this kid. (MominIsrael has the scoop)

Left behind at the airport while the family rushed to catch a flight to Paris, they managed to get 5 of their kids on board, but forgot their 4 year old daughter in Duty-Free at the Ben-Gurion airport.

My kids were all over this story yesterday evening. How did they forget her?!

In addition to the abandonment trauma this kid might have felt (have no idea if it's long term), this kid will forever be reminded by her siblings that she was left behind.

Perhaps the parents thought of a new, innovative way to get baby sitting services for their kids. At the Ben-Gurion airport, you can buy items in duty free and leave them at the airport, picking them up on your return...


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Security Robots, Airports, Israeli Rifles and James Bond.

Nothing beats the world class security at Israel's Ben-Gurion airport. Like it or not, their non-politically-correct profiling works.

After building Ben-Gurion airport's modern and ultra chic Terminal-3 which will help absorb the masses when Mashiach arrives tomorrow, the airport is now looking towards technology to aid with security. Already today there are dozens of cameras which digitally scan and analyze the faces of everyone who enters the Arrival and Departure terminals and compares them to terrorists in the Police's wanted-terrorist database.

NRG (Ma'ariv Newspaper's website in Hebrew) reports that the airport is currently evaluating 6 wheeled robots -- perhaps even the model shown above, to conduct security patrols around the airport's perimeter. The robots indicate if something is amiss and alert central command to any suspicious activity.

Jut wait till RoboCop interviews you before check-in...you'll think twice before lying about the letters your cousin gave you to mail.

And on the topic of security, the Israeli Assault Rifle of the future, the Tavor, is going to be the rifle of choice in the upcoming James Bond movie. (This was front page news today in Maariv!)

Already in use by IDF Givati infantry units, the Tavor's showcasing by James Bond will definitly do wonders for the Tavor's image, and will probably put the Tavor in the same name-brand recognition category as the ubiquitous Uzi.

Tavor by Israel Military Industries

I can just picture James Bond being interviewed by Israeli security at the airport...and then racing away from the security robot.


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