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The change'II do you good. 104 American Heart Association WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE The Lure Of Las Vegas In Israel, the land of miracles, the battle over the casino begins. LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT T el Aviv. Should the Jewish state have its very own gambling casino? The ques- tion goes to the heart of the culture clash over whether Is- raelis are too money-mad, too ea- ger to ape the West, or whether they're just learning to live a lit- tle and pursue happiness like healthy, normal people. The casi- no that may be looming in Israel's future is a symbol — for some, of runaway moral degradation; for others, of freedom. Ever since the Oslo Accord, and especially since the peace with Jordan, there's been an ac- celerated push for an Israeli casi- no — first in Eilat, the resort city of 36,000 people at the country's southern tip on the Red Sea, then in other out-of-the way tourist spots. With borders opening, tourism booming, and the dollar signs of peace in a lot of peo- ple's eyes, an Israeli casino sounds like a natural. "The mayors of Tiberias [on the Sea of Galilee shore] and Nahariya [on the northern coast] told me they'd like to have casinos in their cities. There's also been talk about build- ing one in Yerucham and Mitzpe Ramon . [both economic- ally depressed Negev towns]," said Labor Knes- set Member Avi Yehezkel, head of the Knesset's tourism sub- committee. Next month, Mr. Yehezkel and Likud Knesset Member Dan Tichon plan to in- troduce a bill calling for an Eilat- area casino. Some of the world's biggest ho- tel gambling moguls would like to build it. Sheldon Adelson, own- er of the Las Vegas Convention Center and the city's Sands Ho- tel, is negotiating to erect a $100 million to $150 million conven- tion center in Eilat. The casino could come later. Sol Kerzner, master builder of South Africa's Sun City, has talked of putting up a casino in the southern Negev's Timna region. Donald Trump has said he's interested in getting into Eilat; so have a couple of Israelis who own stakes in Hungarian and Turkish gam- bling houses. At the beginning of January, Israel received an emissary from the gambling world's capital. The Tourism Ministry invited T as Ve- gas Mayor Jan Jones to describe the wonders casinos had done for her hometown. Las Vegas, she told the tourism subcommittee, had blos- somed, thanks to the "gaming in- dustry." Strict licensing practices had run the Mafia out of town. Revenues from casinos had been plowed back into education, cul- tural institutions and police. Las Vegas, she said, was America's "fastest-growing city, and that's because of the qualify of life." Yossi Levy, head of the Israel Police's investigations division, said his people had no objections to a casino, as long as they were given the authority and presence to keep organized crime out and drugs, prostitution and street crime down. The attitude of the subcommittee was that what's good for Las Vegas is good for Eilat. The casino should be built. About 70 percent of Israelis agree, said Tourism Minister Uzi Baram, citing polls commissioned by the tourism industry. Is- raelis are already big gamblers. Their newest summer va- cation craze is Anato- lia and the other Turkish casino re- sorts. More than 300,000 Israelis take cheap charter flights there each year. Many others go to the casino in the Taba Hilton, just across the Egyptian border from Eilat. Still others play the tables in Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia, not to mention Las Vegas. Tourism of- ficials estimate that Israelis spend some $200 million annu- ally on gambling vacations abroad. There are scores of ille- gal "floating casinos" operating in Israeli homes and storefronts. On the legal end, between 1.5 million and 2 million Israelis wa- ger about $500 million a year on the weekly, state-run lotteries and soccer pools. "Another casino is going to be built in Taba, and one will prob- ably be built in Aqaba [right over the Jordanian border from Eilat]," said Tourism Ministry spokeswoman Orly Doron. "For the sake of Israel's tourism in- dustry, we have to be prepared to meet that competitive threat."