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. 

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A prostitute in Israel waiting for a client.

Four years after ban: Israeli prostitution consumption increases - study

 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

 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


Analysis: Should prostitution be illegal in Israel?

Knesset dumps on judge’s permissive ruling, but will it finally act?

A prostitute waits for customers along a road.

Israeli brothels operated by 'working women' to face less government prosecution

Prostitution in Israel is legal, but pimping and brothels remain outside the law, and new legislation proposing to persecute only patrons of the sex trade is making its way through the Knesset.

A prostitute waits for customers along a road.

Alan Dershowitz cleared from sex scandal accusations, prosecuting lawyers apologize

Dershowitz, who as billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer, was named as one of several men who also had sex with the women procured by Epstein.

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Bill fighting underage prostitution moves forward

Knesset Committee for the Rights of Children chairwoman Yifat Shasha-Biton of Kulanu proposed to increase the prison sentence for soliciting sex from a prostitute who is a minor from three to five years.

A prostitute waits for customers along a road.

The face of Israeli prostitution

In the aftermath of a sex worker’s suicide, ‘Metro’ takes a look inside the brothels of Tel Aviv.

98 Hayarkon Street, the site of the brothel in which sex worker ‘Jessica’ committed suicide last week, sparking a protest and calls for reform

Suicide at brothel highlights the status of sex workers in Israel

Governments unsure how to deal with the “flesh trade.”

A prostitute waits for customers along a road.

Police close Tel Aviv brothel after suicide

The central-Tel-Aviv brothel resumed business only hours after a prostitute committed suicide.

A prostitute waits for customers along a road.

No worst, there is none

Lilach Tzur Ben-Moshe, a young fashion editor at Ma’ariv, oversees a sewing/design center in the heart of south Tel Aviv, catering to 50 prostitutes a year, some still working.

Woman tailor working on dress (illustrative).

Culture of prostitution

Walking in my neighborhood was at times unpleasant, but it wasn’t frightening until March 19.

A prostitute waits for customers along a road.

Poll finds majority of Israelis don't think going to a prostitute is a crime

Survey released ahead of Knesset discussion of bill to criminalize soliciting a prostitute finds 63% against such law.

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