Mukilteo Beacon - Your Hometown News Source

Having traveled and lived all over the world, I thought it would be interesting to look at how others outside the U.S. take care (or don’t) of their individual person. Let’s compare those standards to those I’ve personally seen here in the U.S.

I’ll start with perhaps the most restrictive safeguards I’ve ever encountered. That being leaving the state of Israel. For the record, there has never been a successful hijacking of an outbound Israeli commercial jet. There has been one on its way to Israel from outside Israel.

When you are about to depart Ben Gurion Airport in the suburbs...