Then he told me to go out and wait in the waiting room. After a while he called me back and said: “this is your last chance to say the truth or we will send you back...”. I was confused. I did not know what to tell them, hence he said: “We are denying you entry because you are lying and you know why you are being denied”. Then they took me to take my luggage and to do a body search and then they send me directly to the detention center. Once I arrived at the detention center they allowed me to use the phone, so I called my parents and they got me a lawyer who called me. Afterwards, I started the emergency procedure which costs NIS 9000 ($ 2318) instead of NIS 2500 ($ 644) for the normal procedure. This amount includes the court fee, the lawyer’s fee and for having a court session faster because it was a weekend. On Sunday afternoon, after four days and three nights in the detention center, an Israeli officer came and brought me to Jerusalem for the court case, where I saw my lawyer for the first time. We had a very short conversation by phone which made it difficult to discuss anything before the court hearing. They never gave me time to discuss my casewith her, only two minutes in the hallway, where everybody was listening. My lawyer asked for three things: My denial of entry to be reversed, not to be deported and to know what the charges were against me. Unfortunately, the last two requests were refused, only my denial of entry was on appeal, which costs me another NIS 4000 ($ 1030). The court case was very frustrating. The whole session was in Hebrew, the lawyer always spoke on my behalf because the judge did not want to give me the word. I had only one short chance to express myself, literally one minute, after that my lawyer stressed for me to be able to speak. While I was speaking, the prosecutor kept mocking me. I was explaining that it was important for me to stay because I am a medical doctor and my aunt was in the hospital; very sick, at her final stage. The prosecutor countered that my case was not about humanitarian issues, rather, it was about security and that I represented a danger to the state of Israel. Then the judge and the prosecutor left to another room to discuss my secret file for about 20 minutes and my lawyer was not allowed to attend it. The judge came back and confirmed my deportation. The judge stated that I wasn’t denied because of what I said or what I do, rather because of my connections with terrorists, which is hilarious to me because I don’t have contact with terrorists, unless with terrorists they mean every Palestinian. My situation is difficult because I need to prove that I don’t have contact to terrorists, so that they will be obliged to reverse my entry denial, but without knowing the secret file, it’s going to be very hard, given that it is very easy for them to accuse anyone of being a terrorist.“ 39