Israel prostitution

Beit She'an sextortion ring: Posing as underage sex workers, network blackmails thousands from men

Three young men from Beit She'an are suspected of impersonating women and extorting more than NIS 100,000 from people online. 

|ByALON HACHMON
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A prostitute in Israel waiting for a client.

Four years after ban: Israeli prostitution consumption increases - study

Consumption of prostitution increased between 2021 and 2024 from 7% to 9% for Jewish men aged 18 to 70, the research found.

|ByEVE YOUNG
MARYAM STITCHES finishing touches onto her denim ‘Neanderthal dress.’ The women often design according to themes, the most recent of which was denim.

Israeli prostitutes fashion a sex trade exit

SOCIAL AFFAIRS: There are several anti-prostitution organizations in Israel, but what’s unique about Turning the Tables is the self-esteem approach emphasized in Yotsrot Atid.

|ByARIEL SHEINBERG
Women with price tags on their hands are displayed in the window of a store called Woman To Go in a shopping mall in Tel Aviv to raise awareness about and protest against the trafficking of women.

Modern slavery in Israel: The women victims of human trafficking

The US State Department TIP report states that Israel does not meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so

|BySHANNA FULD

Brothel busted in Tiberias for multiple violations

While prostitution in Israel is legal, pimping and brothels remain outside the law.

NOVEMBER 23, 2017ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
A prostitute in Israel waiting for a client.

US State Dept: Israel in top level group working to end human trafficking

The Knesset's subcommittee on the subject of trafficking and prostitution met to discuss the government's efforts on further stamping out human trafficking.

NOVEMBER 6, 2017BySARAH LEVI
Aliza Lavie (left) conducts a meeting of the Subcommittee on Trafficking in Women and Prostitution, as MK Tamar Zandberg (right) looks on

Israel's religious community faces off against prostitution

Group seeks to lift veil from taboo topic in communities ruled by strict Jewish law.

OCTOBER 20, 2017ByJPOST.COM STAFF
A prostitute waits for customers along a road.

Police: 13-year-old girl forced into prostitution, abused by teenage girl

A 16-year-old girl from Ashkelon was arrested on suspicion of extorting, abusing, and forcing a 13-year-old girl into prostitution.

JUNE 20, 2017ByELIYAHU KAMISHER
Police at the scene of a crime in Rameh in northern Israel

'IDF unsure of extent of prostitution among its soldiers'

A survey by the Labor and Social Services Ministry for a report found an estimated 500 soldiers involved in prostitution, with at least six cases in the past year.

MARCH 23, 2017ByANNA AHRONHEIM
A sex worker[Illustrative]

IDF soldiers in the dangerous cycle of prostitution

The army should set a moral example and act to stamp out prostitution in its midst, work to save these soldiers and recover them.

FEBRUARY 20, 2017ByMICHAL ROZIN
An IDF soldier.

This week in Jerusalem 478974

Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs.

JANUARY 19, 2017ByPEGGY CIDOR
At the burnt-out site of Oved’s Falafel on Bethlehem Road

Blow to MK Hazan: Court says he hired prostitutes and used hard drugs

Ch. 2 reporter beats most of defamation case, fined only NIS 40,000.

OCTOBER 25, 2016ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, LAHAV HARKOV
MK Oren Hazan

Necessary Stories: Besieged

She needed the money; Rent was overdue and she was hungry; And rates were way down now that the British paras were gone.

OCTOBER 6, 2016ByHAIM WATZMAN
Art by Avi Katz

Welfare Minister Haim Katz supports bill to prosecute patrons of prostitutes

As proposed, johns over age 18 would have to pay a NIS 750 fine for using sexual services.

AUGUST 28, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
A prostitute waits for customers along a road.