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WAAG: Israel: Legal Gambling

There is not a whole lot of gambling that is legal in Israel right now –in fact, the government has laid out very specific legislation that firmly blocks all online casinos from legally accessing Israel gamblers and provides carve-outs for operation of gambling in the country to only two key companies. A huge target of the country’s Attorney General was the online casino gambling industry specifically. And to that end, the Attorney General was interested in stopping the activity from taking place with Israeli gamblers, there are other dispensations in place for businesses offering foreign internet gambling.

As far as legal gambling in the country, the best bet for Israeli gamblers is to really look at the laws before they attempt to place bets and gamble. In 2005 the Attorney General ordered that all online casino gambling operations cease in the country and even included internet backgammon, a very popular game in Israel, in the demand. The only two companies not affected by the ban were both the Israeli Commission for Sports Gambling and the Israel Lottery. This firm ban on the online casinos and all forms of internet gambling stayed in place for two years until the Attorney General announced that a single internet backgammon site was allowed back into the Israeli market.

Play65 is now the only legal online gambling site operating in Israel and the company operates harmoniously with the Israeli government. The Attorney General claimed that the decision to allow internet backgammon back into the market was due to the “unique circumstances of the site activity.” Although the internet backgammon site now has full access to the market the site must remain within its niche and cannot offer internet casino gambling.