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Originally Posted by erick
Try setting up a telescope in Israel! I first did in a place that had more passerby traffic than I anticipated. Only took 30 minutes from starting to setup until the police arrived. Good news, they had sufficient English - my Hebrew was almost zero at that time. All was good.
After that I found remote spots in which I was invisible or if I set up in a park in town to show people the Moon, Saturn etc., I told the police first.
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I heard a story about someone trying to get their Newt. telescope through
customs at the Ben Gurion airport in Israel.
They pulled the whole thing apart and removed the main mirror
and the secondary mirror.
They held him up for ages before giving him back all the pieces.
In Israel the security people are terrified of anyone with optical equipment.