Netanyahu to discuss viability of Eilat casino with transportation, tourism ministers

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continues chasing his dream of finally opening a casino in Israel.

Netanyahu is reportedly planning to sit down with his transportation and tourism ministers to assess the viability of opening a tourist-only casino in the southern city of Eilat, located close to a proposed international airport, according to Israeli news outlet Haaretz.

Quoting the Prime Minister’s Office, the news report said “the meeting was only a preliminary one, and that no concrete plans were drawn up yet.”

Netanyahu has been pushing for a casino in the country, initially during his first term as prime minister and then again as a finance minister several years later. Last year, the prime minister tapped two of his cabinet members—Ministers Yisrael Katz and Yariv Levin—to conduct feasibility studies on opening a casino in Eilat, a city on the Red Sea coast.