After the shipping iPads Israel banned on the importation of iPads in the country. By Ben-Gurion International Airport, the tourists who enter in Israel may take one iPad with them through customs.

The cause of the ban is that the Israeli Communications Ministry has fear that the Wi-Fi signals of iPads, which is conventional to American standards, can interrupt Israeli communications networks, as well as those which are used by the forces.

European wireless data communications standards are followed by Israel. As a minimum 20 iPads were taken away by Israeli customs at the same time as the ban was imposed, these computers will be revisited to their owners after giving a storage fee of 45 shekels ($12) daily.

Yechiel Shabi, Communications Ministry representative subjected a statement last night,
“Following the completion of intensive technical scrutiny, Israel Minister of Communications Moshe Kakhlon approved the import of [the] iPad to Israel.”

Reports in Time Inc. publications Time and Fortune directed some misgivings on the authorized explanation for the ban.

On Tuesday, Time reported,
”The iPad uses the same frequency and signal strength other Apple computers already in Israel do, and that the iPad, like those other Apple computers, is compatible with European communications standards.

On Saturday, Fortune reiterated an item that,
“First surfaced in that Time story– a post on an Israeli technology blog that offers a more cynical explanation for the ban.”

A former public relations officer for the Israel Defense Force, Journalist Aharon Etengoff, inscribed on the TG Daily blog,

“Apple’s sole Israeli distributor, iDigital, is owned by Chemi Peres, the son of Israel’s president, Shimon Peres. “

He also wrote,

“Clearly, iDigital wants its lucrative cut of every iPad being brought into the country” – a cut it cannot receive until Apple produces a version for European distribution. That version was originally scheduled for release at the end of April, but strong American demand for the tablet computers led the company to push the European release date back to the end of May.”

In the interim, iDigital wasn’t earning a single penny off the sluggish trickle of iPads approaching into the country with businesspeople and intercontinental tourist. According to public judgment the ban was extremely decisive both within and outside Israel.

Fortune gossips,
“That it’s quite likely that the decision to lift the ban came in response to both that storm of criticism and pressure from American high-tech executives.”
The magazine also declared that Kakhlon had not been apprised of the unusual result to inflict the ban.

[Via Huliq]