mikew, I think the problem with the article is that it was badly reported; it quoted comments clearly meant to give readers the impression that the people being quoted are biased--which may be the case. But the reason the devices are being confiscated apparently stems from the iPad being engineered to work with low-range radio (WiFi) frequencies, which are apparently illegal in Israel. But confiscating the devices seems silly. If low-range radio frequencies are illegal, then no one should being transmitting them, and no one with an iPad would then be able to receive them. I confess to being clueless about how WiFi actually works, but do WiFi devices transmit as well as receive radio frequencies?