at least your government is asking (Score 2, Informative)

In israel, every government or municipal website requires IE - some don't even let you in if you run something else, others just don't work. You can't pay a bill or file a form with any other browser.

This is not just the government, IE is actually considered a proper standard here. One of our biggest universities, Tel Aviv university, where I go to school, uses an online course system for bulletin boards and knowledge bases that you can't login to without IE, and sends students messages in word .doc format! Same goes for all our major portals, news sites, and online communities, not to mention e-commerce sites...