Was magic legal in Israel

Answer 1

There is no modern country that prohibits magic, if only because something like magic is difficult to define. The State of Israel does not discriminate against religions, so religions like Wicca can exist peacefully in Israel even though there is no serious Wicca community in that country. In addition, Israel has palmists, fortune-tellers, and tarot card readers just like most Western countries. Magic the Gathering is also legal in Israel, if that was the "magic" you meant.

As concerns the Ancient Kingdoms of Israel, Northern Israel, and Judah, and the Hasmoneans, divination and sorcery were prohibited by Torah laws. At numerous points, Northern Israel and Judah violated this prohibition and allowed Diviners and Sorcerers at their courts, but such an act was never legal in the sense that the Kings never decreed it permissible, but they just did not enforce its illegality. (This is contrasted with False Prophets and Idolatry which were at certain points openly condoned.)