Key Takeaways
- Nevada’s governor Brian Sandoval has been pushing the idea of building a Las Vegas style resort in the Israeli Negev Desert.
- Consul General David Siegel, the senior Israeli representative to Southwestern United States told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the idea was in very preliminary stages: “…it’s something that we’re looking at.”
- Nevada’s expertise in creating gambling based hedonistic tourist industry in a deeply religious country may be of as much value as its experience of building “cities in the desert.”
A trade mission to Israel by Nevada’s governor Brian Sandoval has been pushing the idea of building a Las Vegas-style resort in the Negev Desert.
Sandoval promoted Nevada’s expertise in such developments in meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres.
