UK Prize Draw Players Are Funding an IDF-Financing Israeli Billionaire

UK consumers who spend money on three major prize draw websites to win cars, cash and tech are funding an Israeli billionaire with a history of financially supporting the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). 

Teddy Sagi is the majority shareholder of Winvia Entertainment Group, a leading UK prize draw operator which owns popular online competition websites Rev Comps, Best Of The Best (known as BOTB) and Click Competitions. 

Hundreds of thousands of British players pay into these prize draw sites, which have millions of followers across their social media channels, for the chance to win luxury vehicles, homes and watches.

Some competitions cost less than £1 to enter, while others are advertised at £5, £10 or even over £100. BOTB alone boasts over 500,000 winners and has awarded over £147m in prizes.

Sagi, founder of gambling software company Playtech and owner of London’s iconic Camden Market, is currently worth an estimated $7.1bn (£5.3bn) according to Forbes. 

The Israeli billionaire has made a number of high-profile donations to the IDF, including during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. 

In November 2023, when Israel had already killed 15,000 people in Gaza – 69% of them women and children, Sagi donated 1m shekels (approximately £260,000) to give IDF soldiers taxi rides home from the frontlines while on leave. 

Sagi has also donated at least $3m (£2.3m) to an Israeli defence ministry initiative to finance scholarships for discharged soldiers, and offered IDF soldiers jobs in his companies at a Friends of the IDF gala in 2019.

Sagi currently holds 69.5% of shares in Winvia, which was floated on the London Stock Exchange in November last year with a debut market value of £205m. Winvia recorded net revenue of £170m for 2025. 

Sagi also owns British-Israeli company Kape Technologies, a VPN service empire which owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access and ZenMate. 

Kape Technologies’ co-founder Koby Menachemi served in Unit 8200, Israel’s secretive cyber warfare agency, which spies on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza and was reportedly involved in the deadly 2024 pager attack in Lebanon. 

Sagi was named in the Pandora Papers, a 2021 leak of nearly 12 million documents that revealed the secret offshore financial dealings of world leaders, business moguls and celebrities. 

The trove of leaked documents linked Sagi, who served five months of a nine-month sentence in Israel after being convicted of fraud and bribery in 1996, to approximately 60 companies headquartered in known tax havens. 

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 73,000 Palestinians since October 2023 – more than 21,000 of them children. A UN commission found this week that Israel has deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza. 

Israel has repeatedly violated the US-brokered ‘ceasefire’, killing over 1,000 Palestinians since it was agreed in October 2025.

Winvia Entertainment has been approached for comment.