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Russ Fox
02-02-2007, 12:55 AM
An Israeli court ruled that "...it is impossible to avoid the local law by placing your servers in a 'legal shelter' in Gibraltar, where gambling is allowed." Thus, the offshore company by offering gambling (in Hebrew) to customers in Israel is guilty of violating Israeli law.

Discussion available here (http://www.copyright.co.il/site/flash/flashDetail.asp?flash_id=66399)

Decision (in Hebrew) available here (http://info1.court.gov.il/Prod03/ManamHTML3.nsf/E09CC4BE777847DC4225727300041CE2/$FILE/412F232D6C929CA142257272003DDC20.html?OpenElement)

-- Russ Fox
co-author, "Why You Lose at Poker"