Nonprofit Bingo Hall in California Supports Israeli Settlements

Proceeds from a charity bingo hall in a poor, largely Hispanic town on the outskirts of Los Angeles are being sent to Israel to back settler communities in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, reports The Guardian.

Irving Moskowitz, a retired doctor who made a fortune buying and selling hospitals, bought the bingo hall in the Hawaiian Gardens neighborhood in 1988 and, per a state law that limits bingo to nonprofit operations, brought it under the aegis of his charitable foundation. Since then, tens of millions of dollars raised by the games have been donated to settlement construction in Israel and to advocacy groups that support it.