Shipping to Israel is likely to kill many a deal.
Granted. The chiddush was that it was cheaper than Israeli stores.
When they introduced the tax on plasticware (almost exactly a year ago), I heard people saying that Amazon would be cheaper. However, I researched it thoroughly and found it not to be the case. (Maybe they were shopping in the wrong Israeli stores.)
In general, deals on Amazon are good if they are small enough to be included in Amazon's free shipping category and also cheap enough to not incur a 18% tax. Amazon usually makes it "out of stock" if you try to ship to EY, but sometimes it is allowed and I have saved good money.
But not here.... sigh... At least the new government has promised to abort the tax. We'll see.