Changing clothes in the restrooms: "Ben Gurion Airport workers are cooperating with criminals from Georgia"

Tomer Moskowitz, former Director General of the Population and Immigration Authority, reveals in an Arutz 7 podcast the underground system that allows illegal migrants to bypass border control at Ben Gurion Airport — from the cooperation of workers to duplicated ID badges.

The method revealed

Moskowitz spoke about the worrying breaches at the country's main airport and pointed to the scale of the phenomenon: "Today there is a very large expansion of infiltration from the eastern border, a great many people are arriving, and there are also Ben Gurion infiltrators, meaning people who enter through Ben Gurion but do not pass border control, change clothes in the restrooms, a phenomenon that they are trying to fight."

When the interviewer asked him to focus on the details, Moskowitz described the organized criminal mechanism behind the scenes: "There is a gang of airport workers who cooperate with criminal gangs from Georgia, and they have been caught many times, and then they are arrested and then they are replaced by other people, infiltrators from Georgia."

The smuggling mechanism: The lost badge and the secured doors

Moskowitz delved into the technical details of the smuggling and why the system struggles to stop it completely, using an ID badge that passed from hand to hand. "They are caught in the country or at the airport itself, with airline clothes, with an ID badge of a permanent employee from Israir, who once lost her badge and since then it has been duplicated and duplicated, and they know how to arrive, they are told exactly which restroom to enter when they get off the plane, where the clothes are waiting for them, clothes to change into, and then they pass through and wait for someone from the staff to open the secured doors, and they tail out, and that is how they enter, but this is a phenomenon, let's say, anecdotal," he reassured.