IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION
FOR ONLINE GAMBLING IN ISRAEL
Court says that foreign online gambling
companies must reject Israeli gamblers
The Israeli business publication Globes Online says that an important
legal ruling handed down this week by an Israeli judge could have
consequences for foreign gambling companies based outside Israel.
Israeli Judge Abraham Heiman said that online gambling sites may
not hide behind the fact that the company and its servers are located
in another country.
A foreign company operating an online gambling site may not hide
behind the fact that the company and its servers are registered
and located in another country, and it is breaking the law if does
not block access to Israelis, said the judge in the Rishon LeZion
Magistrates Court.
Judge Heiman'sruling was in respect of a case against Victor Chandler
CEO Michael Carlton. Heiman said, “In the era of the Internet,
the original location of content (Internet services) is marginal
and negligible. The centre of gravity, especially the territorial
legal jurisdiction, must switch to the end point, in other words,
the individual computer.”
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