I received an email from my university (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) saying that we are finally ditching the annoying email system we used until now and moving over to Google Apps Gmail. Fun fun fun.
Awkward link (in Hebrew):
http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/dovrut/dovrut_search.pl?mesge118388682805872560

Info in English:
http://ca.huji.ac.il/services/internet/mail/gmail/index-en.shtml

the annoying email system (info: http://ca.huji.ac.il/services/internet/mail/index.shtml)
is called:
POB (Post Office Box) e-mail

Good to see that Israel is finally familiar with Google's services.

I am wondering how coincidental it is that this came only a short month after Google stepped up its presence in Israel with the R&D lab. Keeping my fingers crossed for a Google Local out here.

I wish Eytan!
That would be awesome!

<< I am wondering how coincidental it is that this came only a short month after Google stepped up its presence in Israel with the R&D lab. >>

I guess Google Israel is working hard huh? ;)