Israel Orders Security Upgrade on All Flights, Pilot Vetting

The order extends Israeli security screening beyond national carriers to foreign operators, which matters because vetting pilots at foreign airlines depends on cooperation those carriers are not obliged to give, and compliance costs and liability questions fall on them rather than on Israeli authorities. It also raises an operational question for airlines serving Israel: whether pilot background checks become a condition of route access. Whether foreign carriers accept the vetting regime, and how it is enforced, is the open question.