Israel Ban Online Casinos

An Israeli court set a new precedent this week in a ruling against online gambling and poker operator, this Israeli court case involving Gibraltar based CEO Michael Carlton of Victor Chandler, effectively banning online gambling companies from delivering any online services to customers in Israel.

The court said that "A foreign company operating an online gambling site may not hide behind the fact that the company and its servers sit in another country, and it is breaking the law if does not block access to Israelis".

Gambling in Israel, like France and several other European countries, is a monopoly controlled by a state-run gaming board.

Victor Chandler launched an aggressive marketing campaign in Israel in 2006, complete with adverts on billboards and buses, compleat with a Hebrew website. Victor Chandler had remarked that Israel had rapidly become its second-biggest market amongst the customers it serves from over 160 countries.

But Israeli authorities were becoming increasingly unhappy about the encroachment of online gaming operators into their state-run monopoly.

This is another nail in the coffin for online gaming firms based on Gibraltar

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