This is not accurate. It is all initiated by few who tried to smuggle it through the customs at the airport and got caught. Those who paid the fine, or alternatively declared about it and pay the custom fee, managed to bring it in.

Yet, iPad being that hot topic in the news woke up some clerks in the communication ministry saying we did not approved it at all, as if it is nothing like any other iphone/ipod or just standard iphone.

by the time it would be available by Apple distributor in Israel (as we all know, it will not be available outside of US before the end of May) I believe the regulation thing would be sorted out.