That is a British policeman in Mandate Palestine searching a Chasid for arms - perhaps hidden under his shtreimel.
And my wife?
Well, a good few years ago, my wife and I attended a World Likud Conference at the time of a Zionist Congress and with Bibi Netanyahu as guest, we all had to go through extremely stringent security checks.
We were searched and went through a metal detector and then my wife was requested to remove her head-covering for a further check.
I will ask her to comment on that with more details.
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