[Disclaimer: I'm no lawyer, please correct me if the info here is wrong]

I was surprised to read about the "spam revolution" that's about to happen on November 2008.
In short, sending spam without recipient permissions would:

• Be illegal, with a 60,000-200,000 NIS fine.
• Each recipient will be able to sue the spammer and get up to 1000 NIS, without the need to proof that any damage was made.

More about it (Hebrew):

• The quickest fine description I've found was actually on a spammer site (although they mention a wrong date!).
• And an official message from the Ministry of Communication [PDF].

Sounds great, eh?