Thanks Harel :) Background about the Chelsea incident: http://www.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/football/07/28/football.chelsea.malaysia.benayoun.abuse/
On 30 July 2011 02:51, Harel Cain <[email protected]> wrote: > Deryck, you should be fine. There are many Israelis (some colleagues of > mine, for example) who're flying to Malaysia on business with foreign > passports. I don't even know what the Chelsea incident is, it didn't make > any headlines over here. > > The security questioning is meant to guarantee the safety of air travel > with El Al, which as you may know has been the target of terror back in the > 1970s (and since, to a decreased degree), in other words - it's done so you > can fly safely. El Al is considered the world's most secure airline exactly > because of its unique methods which are based on interviewing the passengers > to detect suspicious passengers, instead of forcing 85 year old grannies to > remove their shoes (TSA method...), which have been in place long before the > 9/11 attacks, for example. > > Because you clearly have no terrorist intentions, there's nothing to worry > about. Just be very patient, answer the questions frankly and openly, and > they'll let you in. They won't fly out without you :) > > > > Harel Cain > Wikimania 2011 local team > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 21:43, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm flying from Hong Kong to Tel Aviv on an El Al flight, holding a >> British passport with a Malaysian stamp from this January (along with a few >> other stamps from USA, Taiwan and Japan from previous years). >> >> I never thought Malaysia would be an issue other than some questioning by >> the El Al and Israeli border control, until the Chelsea incident this week >> made Israel-Malaysia relations somewhat tenser than usual, as I've heard. >> >> I doubt that in my case the "formal" letter would make any difference: the >> automated email has our name and personal itinerary printed on it, so if >> that doesn't get me through, I doubt any other paperwork from WMIL will... >> >> >> On 30 July 2011 02:29, Harel Cain <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Unless you come from a potentially problematic country (for example one >>> which doesn't have diplomatic relations with Israel, or just one which is >>> rather exotic for incoming tourism), the printout of the automated mail you >>> got from us should be fine, and even that shouldn't be necessary. It's just >>> something you can show during the security questioning, which normally >>> occurs only on El Al flights. >>> >>> We prepared personalized "formal" letters of invitation upon request for >>> quite a few people. However I'm rather disinclined to prepare more and more >>> of them. If you are from the USA or the EU or other Western countries I >>> really think they're not necessary. >>> >>> These things are really a matter of chance - I heard the one attendee >>> from Czech Republic had a few problems (everything is fine, nothing >>> serious), while the South Americans went through everything without any >>> problem at all. >>> >>> Please seriously consider if you really need them before asking for such >>> personalized letters (requests please send to one of the OTRS queues). >>> >>> >>> Harel Cain >>> Wikimania 2011 local team >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 20:08, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> ...and how many copies of each! >>>> On Jul 30, 2011 1:07 AM, "Laura James" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > Hi, thanks for the great advice - yes, please do let us know which >>>> document >>>> > would be the most helpful to print. And any other tips! :-) >>>> > Thank you, >>>> > Laura >>>> > >>>> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Kim Bruning <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 07:49:31PM +0900, KIZU Naoko wrote: >>>> >> > Hi from Tel Aviv suburb. >>>> >> > >>>> >> > I strongly recommend to follow Manuel. Also the letter from the >>>> >> > organizing team may help. >>>> >> > >>>> >> > At security check in AMS I met difficulty , since then I left all >>>> the >>>> >> > copy of registration team and also had no copy. >>>> >> >>>> >> > document on my registration to the confenrence or a document from >>>> WMF. >>>> >> >>>> >> Hmm, good point, what document would be handiest to print out? (I'll >>>> check >>>> >> my mail) >>>> >> >>>> >> -- >>>> >> [Non-pgp mail clients may show pgp-signature as attachment] >>>> >> gpg (www.gnupg.org) Fingerprint for key FEF9DD72 >>>> >> 5ED6 E215 73EE AD84 E03A 01C5 94AC 7B0E FEF9 DD72 >>>> >> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >>>> >> Wikimania-l mailing list >>>> >> [email protected] >>>> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>>> >> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimania-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > > -- > Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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