Israeli gamblers make Palestinian casino feel lucky | World news. On the desert sands of Jericho, not far from Sodom and Gomorrah, thousands of Israeli Jews are succumbing every night to a powerful temptation: legalised gambling. The Oasis casino is a light pink lump that has pretensions of Atlantic City glitz, although it is across the road from a Palestinian refugee camp. Less than a year after it opened, the roulette wheels are spinning dizzily, and the twisting desert highway from Jerusalem is bumper- to- bumper on weekend nights.
The Oasis is the first legal casino within easy drive of Israeli homes since the Jewish state was founded in 1. But the casino's popularity is surprising. Jericho is a taboo territory - controlled by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority - where many Israelis would not otherwise venture. A trip to the tables requires submitting to Palestinian refugees in khaki uniforms who demand the surrender of weapons, and take your pictures with a hidden camera. It also means handing over your money to a former enemy when you lose. But Israelis, who make up 9.
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ВЈ7. 00m a year. Much of that windfall is going to the Austrian firm that runs it, but the rest finds its way to the Palestinian Authority. Inside its pink confines, the casino - open 2. Jewish Day of Atonement - is a place of fierce concentration. Blackjack players clutch two hands at a time, and people strain to get close to the tables. Piles of empty coffee cups are racked up by the roulette wheels, their owners lost to the game. Most of the players are middle- aged or elderly people, gambling with their pension money, and riding the free buses that run between the casino and 1. Israeli cities. The regulars also include Orthodox Jews, who use the hours between 3am and 5am, returning to Jerusalem in time for morning prayers.
Seema Levy, a Jerusalem housewife, says she takes the 8pm bus here nearly every evening. Beginning by playing chaperone to a husband who is a compulsive gambler, she now takes an occasional spin on the $1. ВЈ7) roulette. "I still control the money, and when we lose $2. But many of the regulars here have no such minder, and Ms Levy has seen players lose small fortunes. A retired telephone linesman confesses that his losses for April came to more than $3,0.
September 1. 99. 8 as more than $5. Such dismal accounts are confirmed by addiction counsellors in Israel. Since the casino opened, I have had one thousand calls from families who have lost everything - houses, money, furniture, cars," said Pnina Eldar, who runs gambling treatment centres in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. People who have never gambled before are now addicted. It's a terrible situation."For the Palestinians, whose economy is largely held hostage by Israeli controls, the takings at Jericho are sweet revenge. The Jericho gambling den has proved so lucrative that the casino is planning to expand to the West Bank city of Ramallah, less than half an hour from Tel Aviv once a new Israeli security road is completed.
- В Палестине возле первого на пути в игорную зону казино дежурит араб, держащий в руках вешалку с потрепанной одеждой – джинсами и пиджаками..
- Казино в Палестине по-своему заботится о проигравшихся клиентах. У дверей стоит араб и бесплатно раздает потрепанную одежду тем, кто выходит без вещей и денег..
Officials in the authority have few qualms about relieving Israelis of their funds, and they can rest secure in the knowledge that none of it is coming from Palestinians. By order of the Palestinian Authority, none may enter the casino, partly to appease Islamist clerics who had balked at the presence of a legal gambling den. For many Palestinians, the ban is simply good sense. Casinos are in the business of taking people's money away," said one employee. Neither apparently do Israelis have much compunction about handing their money over to a people still seen as the enemy by a significant minority of the population. In the beginning I used to be sensitive," Ms Levy said.
Как играть в казино если азарт запрещен религией? Есть ли игорный бизнес у мусульман? В Палестине запрещены любые азартные игры и даже скачки.. В целом Фил находился в казино около 100 часов, но 10 часов было вычтено за его отдых между играми. У входа в одно казино в Палестине стоит араб..
I did not want to play and give money to Palestinians, but after a while, you just play, you don't worry where the money is going."That apparently has been a lifelong problem for Israelis. Ms Eldar estimates that 8.
Israelis over the age of 1. She has also set up clinics for teenage gamblers, who play away their money at high school betting dens. Until the casino at Jericho opened, many Israelis such as Ms Levy were regular travellers to casinos in Turkey - all of which closed two years ago - and in Taba, on the Egyptian side of Israel's southern border.
There are also thriving gambling operations on ships that call in at the port of Eilat. Ms Eldar fears the arrival of legal gambling so close to home will prove irresistible to Israelis, and complains that the government's social services department has failed to recognise the danger in the vice. But many at the Oasis would dismiss her as an alarmist. Anyone who has a brain knows how to play," said a housewife from Ramle, who was settling in for a long night to recover the $3. You have to know there is a limit.".
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