AFTER BRUSSELS ATTACK, ISRAEL BECOMES A MODEL FOR AIRPORT SECURITY:

With Brussels on lockdown and the French prime minister saying that Europe is "at war," European leaders held emergency security meetings and deployed more police, explosives experts, sniffer dogs and plainclothes officers at key points. "The threat we are facing in Europe is about the same as what Israel faces," said Olivier Guitta, the managing director of GlobalStrat, an international security consultancy. Pini Schiff, a former security director at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport, which is considered among the most secure in the world, said the attacks at the Brussels airport mark "a colossal failure" of Belgian security and that "the chances are very low" such a bombing could have happened in Israel. After Palestinian attacks on Israeli planes and travelers in the 1970s, Israeli officials put in place several layers of security at that airport in Tel Aviv, meaning an attacker who escapes notice at one level of security would likely be captured by another. There are 11 visible security and inspection points at Ben-Gurion Airport - from a roadblock at the airport entrance to the airplane gates. According to media reports, Belgian authorities had advance warning about an "imminent terror attack." Yet neither the country's police nor its security forces increased their presence in the streets or deployed checkpoints at the entrances to the airport. (Times of Israel/Jerusalem Post/NJ Herald)