2. Cutaway of Israeli flag flying outside sorting office
3. 'Postal Authority' on wall outside sorting office
4. Various interiors of main sorting office in action
5. Letters move along a conveyor belt
6. Staff sorting through the mail
7. Letters sorted manually by staff
Jerusalem
8. Set-up shot of Israeli Postal Authority spokesman, Yitzhak Rabihiya
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yitzhak Rabihiya, Israeli Postal Authority spokesman "The Israeli Post is taking every precaution(ary) step, together with the army and the police force, to take care so that there will be no anthrax infections. We have received so far from the public six to ten suspicious envelopes that we have sent for a check but so far there is no anthrax found in letters in Israel."
10. Cutaway of Rabihiya
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yitzhak Rabihiya, Israeli Postal Authority spokesman "We are in contact with other postal authorities in the world. We are learning from the Americans, the Australians and we are doing everything possible to prevent anthrax."
Tel Aviv
12. Close up of man sorting letters
13. Two women workers sort through post
14. Various shots of mail being sorted and readied for delivery
The Israeli Postal Authority has introduced tighter screening methods at its sorting offices to counter the threat of a bioterrorist attack.
The authority's spokesman said it was in contact with postal authorities in the United States, as well as with the Israeli army and police, to ensure against an anthrax attack in Israel.
The spokesman also said the authority had received about six to ten suspicious envelopes which had been sent for testing, but that no anthrax had been discovered so far.
He said that since the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, supervision of incoming and outgoing mail, including packages, had been increased.
But tight postal security is not new to Israel, whose guard has been up since the 1970s when Palestinian and Israeli intelligence services used the letter bomb as a weapon of choice in targeting guerrillas, operatives and diplomats.
Since then, notices in post offices have continually warned people to be on the look-out for suspicious letters and packages.
Even the slots on Israeli post boxes are extremely thin as an added measure against potentially explosive-laden mail.
The Israel Postal Authority handles around 2.2 (m) million pieces of mail every day.
