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iPads are now kosher

By Sherine Tadros in Middle East on April 25th, 2010

It can handle the flak from the international community, condemnation from powerful states and the scrutiny of the world's press, but when Israel's technorati decided to go to war with the state over its ban of Apple's iPad, something had to be done.

And it was.

Two weeks after imposing a ban on bringing iPad's into the country, the communication ministry on Sunday decided to lift the restriction.

They provided as little information as to why they lifted the ban as they did about why they imposed it in the first place. The bottom line - iPads are now kosher.

Authorities say they have carried out "intensive technical scrutiny" on the little shiny tablet which appears to no longer be the security threat it was yesterday.

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"It’s pretty simple, the only official Apple distributor here is iDigital. They didn’t want everyone buying their iPads cheaply from the US instead of expensively from here so they put pressure on the ministry to impose this ban, using a reason that makes no sense, in the full knowledge that it would only be used to stall for a while."

The argument may have some merit - the son of Shimon Perez, the Israeli president, owns iDigital. We asked them for a comment but they declined our request.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/04/25/ipads-are-now-kosher