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For illustration: Minnesota State Lottery website, which features eScratch Games. (AP Photo)
May 15, 2023, 4:03 pm
Australia’s Aristocrat to buy Israel’s NeoGames in deal worth $1.2 billion
Nasdaq-listed NeoGames is a Tel Aviv-based online gaming tech solutions provider for iLottery, iGaming and online sports betting operators
By Sharon Wrobel
Business owner Joe Chahayed holds a check outside Joe's Service Center in Altadena, northeast of Los Angeles Nov. 8, 2022. For selling the winning ticket, (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
November 9, 2022, 9:04 am
Single Powerball ticket sold in California snags record $2.04 billion win
Under state rules, the winner’s name must be disclosed but no other information has to be made public; business owner gets $1 million bonus for selling winning ticket
By STEFANIE DAZIO and SCOTT McFETRIDGE
A sign displays the Mega Millions lottery jackpot in Detroit, July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
July 30, 2022, 6:43 pm
Lottery ticket bought at gas station wins $1.28 billion jackpot
The Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines, a Chicago suburb, to also receive half million dollars just for selling the ticket
By DON BABWIN
A man who won NIS 80 million in Israel's largest lottery jackpot poses with a giant check at the offices of the Mifal HaPais national lottery on February 6, 2022 (Mifal HaPais)
February 6, 2022, 6:16 pm
Winner of Israel’s largest-ever lottery jackpot says winning numbers emitted a light
Scoops NIS 80 million ($25 million); had never filled out a lottery ticket before and only did so because the prize was so large
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An Israeli man at a "lotto" booth in the center of Jerusalem. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 27, 2021, 10:43 am
Grandfather takes biggest-ever Israel lottery jackpot of NIS 76m
Lucky man informs his wife by singing about dreams coming true, calls boss at new place of work to tell him he won’t be coming in
By Stuart Winer
HBO's McMillions (Courtesy)
August 4, 2020, 3:06 am
HBO doc on Hamburglar who stole millions in McDonald’s prizes gets 5 Emmy nods
‘A true-crime story that everyone’s involved in’: Series unpicks the absurd saga of a wildly popular decade-long Monopoly sweepstakes that almost no American legitimately won
By Jordan Hoffman
Illustrative. A person filling out a lottery ticket in Jerusalem on October 17, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash90/File)
August 18, 2019, 10:57 pm
Poverty-stricken ultra-Orthodox man wins over $140,000 in lottery
Bnei Brak resident thanks God for the windfall after deciding on a whim to buy a scratch ticket for first time in his life
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative: A lotto card from Israel's Mifal Hapayis national lottery. (Flash90/Abir Sultan)
November 4, 2018, 7:19 pm
6 months on, mystery Israeli fails to pick up $890K lottery winnings
If individual who won NIS 3.3 million in May doesn’t come forward by Monday, winnings will return to draw company
By ToI Staff
Head of the left-wing Meretz party Tamar Zandberg attends a rally marking 23 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on November 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 4, 2018, 3:49 pm
Mending a broken nation: 6 things to know for November 4
The Rabin assassination Rabin 23 years ago is reverberating to this day, and the political divide becomes evident on the anniversary of the murder
By Adiv Sterman
Illustrative: A lotto card from Israel's Mifal Hapayis national lottery. (Flash90/Abir Sultan)
January 22, 2018, 8:34 pm
NIS 52 million lottery winner says news ‘felt like the UN vote in 1947’
50-year-old says he bought ticket while at the mall with friends, while rest of country was at protests; plans to buy an apartment and deposit the rest for now
By ToI Staff
Israeli diplomats protest in Tel Aviv holding a sign reading 'Lost diplomacy = an isolated Israel,' July 3, 2103 (Flash90/Roni Schutzer)
January 8, 2018, 1:50 pm
Israeli missions overseas, immigrants, tourists targeted for 2019 budget cuts
Deputy foreign minister calls move to slash ministry workforce ‘a targeted assassination’ of Israel’s diplomacy, vows to block move
By Sue Surkes
The King Solomon Hotel in downtown Jerusalem. (Screen capture Channel 2)
December 17, 2016, 1:33 am
Hotel owner leaves over $2 million to his employees
Veteran staff at King Solomon Hotels in Jerusalem and Tiberias each receive $1,000 for every year they’ve worked there
By ToI Staff
Daniel Orenstein
November 20, 2016, 3:00 pm
Daniel Orenstein
The 3 sins of the Israeli lottery
It’s bad enough to dupe the poor, but mocking the needs of children and the environment is too much — ban the ads!
Aerial view of resort on the Micronesian island of Kosrae. (Courtesy)
July 14, 2016, 3:10 am
Israelis lead race as Micronesian tourism paradise is raffled off, at $49 a ticket
The owners of the Nautilus Resort are moving back to the mainland, but they’re selling the hotel in a rather unusual fashion
By Yaakov Schwartz
An Israeli couple keep their identities hidden as they collect their lottery winnings in May 2013 (YouTube screen shot)
January 16, 2016, 5:55 pm
Why the Israeli lottery gives winners masks
Unlike the US, Israel keeps the identities of its winners under wraps — and probably with good reason
By Gabe Friedman
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