Due to the small number of cars and pedestrians passing the checkpoint, pressure was low, and it seemed like an ideal day to inquire about the ID of a Palestinian man from the occupied territories who asked machsomwatch to help him retrieve it after it had been confiscated about a month ago and never returned to him. The first two soldiers I asked were polite but disinterested (“no idea”,”not our job”, “perhaps the Border Police would know”). The next one suggested the Interior Ministry as a helpful address, while a third one held that the army passes on confiscated IDs to the Border Police if they are not picked up. A call to Ofer remained unanswered, and we decided to stay put for the time being.An ambulance (driver with orange ID!) was allowed to pass southward after an inspection that hardly lasted two minutes.A number of men had their jackets examined (two of them looked like army jackets), but all of them passed in the end.All in all, traffic seemed so smooth that we decided to try our luck once more regarding the missing ID. We followed a border police car to the nearest Police Station in Neve Ya’acov. The receptionist pointed out with an obvious lack of care that this kind of issue is not dealt with there but suggested we call the Zion Police Station (Russian Compound). We did just that. I was told that IDs are actually handled at the Neve Ya’acov station, so we went back in, again without success. The person I talked to at the Zion Police Station was uncertain as to who is responsible for issuing green IDs – Israel or the PNA. He suggested a “Lost and Found” office on Yafo Street and a border police station for further inquiries.Unfortunately, our endeavours were not crowned with success.