A possible gradual banning of all the energy waster lamps in Israel until 2012

[dor123]

From what i readed in a report in one of the israelis newspaper named "Haaretz", until 2012, all of the inefficient light sources (Incandescent, halogen and SBMV lamps and possibly also regular mercury vapor lamps) will be illegal in Israel.
There is a campign of the Council for Israel Beauty to return the failed incandescent lamps and recive energy saving lamps instead at lower prices, which is very successful (Unfortunately the Hyundai "overdriven start" amalgam based helical lamps, which will have much shorter life then their 8000 hours rated life, is the lamp that takes part in the campign).

[gailgrove]

Here there banning incandescent but not halogen or MV 

[mercuryvaporrocks]

There's power companies in my area that are trying to bribe people with CFL's.

[dor123]

@mercuryvaporrocks: In Israel, the Council for Israel Beauty and Semicom Lexis, did this by operation of a project to return the old incandescent lamps and recive the lamp in my picture: http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-3487 (Not must be actually 20W), at much lower costs.
These lamps which are helicals are Hyundai Teva instant on amalgam CFLs, which caused me a shock when i saw them lit at 100% brightness instantly, despite they are based on solid amalgam, until a member on LG site, which i view him my video of this lamp turns on, said me that this may be a result of placing the amalgam onto the electrodes and overdrive the lamp for a brief time without negatively affect the lamp life, to get the mercury relased from the amalgam and diffuse inside the tube in less then the time required for a tungsten filament to warm up.
PAR38 lamps, both incandescent and halogen aren't marketed today in Israel, except for IR purpose.
All of our PAR38 lamps are energy saving CFL, although i also saw LED PAR lamps in a coffee house somewhere.