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September 2003

Technology Can't Tame Terror

Former El Al security head Isaac Yeffet on how technology fails air safety.

By Erika Jonietz

Isaac Yeffet

Position: Founder, Yeffet Security Consultants, an airline security firm

Issue: Air travel screening. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration wants to increase the use of technology to improve airline security. But will it really help?

Personal Point of Impact: Former head of global security for Israel's El Al airline

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