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WAAG: Israel: Overview

The Israeli online casino gambling industry does not exist right now because of very strict and strong laws in the small country that ban the internet gambling companies from operating and also bans all of the credit card companies and banks from processing the transactions. The Israeli internet gambling market has stagnated since 2005 when the Attorney General ruled that all of the internet gambling activities must cease and all of the online casinos had to leave the market or face harsh penalties. The Attorney General included all forms of internet gambling and this meant that internet backgammon, poker, betting, and all forms of chance gambling were excluded from the Israeli market. The only carve-out that is in place is the Israeli Commission for Sports Gambling and Israel Lottery.

These two gambling industries are still allowed to operate fully in the Israeli market and offer up lottery and sports betting services. The mandates from the Attorney General were really primarily aimed at forcing the online casinos out of the market and to keep Israelis from gambling through the internet at any company that wasn’t one of the two excluded from the ban. At this point online backgammon is still legal in the market and there are a number of internet casino sites that operate out of Israel but not for Israelis.

In August and September 2009 the Israeli officials raided a company that offered online casino games to patrons outside of the country and officials claim that the company was in breach of Israeli gambling laws. The case is still in the process of unfolding and the resolution will provide other businesses with important legal precedence to know just precisely if their offshore internet gambling companies are legal for operating out of Israel.

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