'We don’t do background checks on foreign pilots': Israeli minister on flydubai incident

Israel’s transportation ministry said on Saturday that it does not conduct background checks on foreign pilots flying into the country and cannot guarantee that flights operated by foreign airlines will be “100 percent” safe.The ministry’s security division said it does not receive the names of pilots and crew in advance and does not have the ability to conduct background checks on foreign pilots flying into Israel.“We are not an intelligence body that checks the intelligence background of foreigners,” a representative of the division said, according to Ynet. “We have no forces abroad. We have no staff that checks every person there.”The statements came after multiple reports that pilots from hostile states have repeatedly flown planes into Israel despite regulations intended to prevent them from doing so.