Israel among worst human traffickers Ruth Eglash, The Jerusalem Post, Apr 25, 2006 www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=19974 [accessed 23 April 2012]
Tal Eisenberg, the organization's legal advisor and coordinator for the center's Fighting Against Trafficking in Women project told The Jerusalem Post, "It is excellent that the United Nations has recognized that there is such a problem in Israel. I hope that we can learn from the report and that the government will now take more notice of the problem." She said that many countries did not even know that trafficking takes place within their borders and that Israeli rights organizations had made great progress in combating the problem. --- US Faults Israel on Human Trafficking Nina Gilbert, The Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2004 www.hotline.org.il/english/news/2004/TheJerusalemPost062304.htm [accessed 14 February 2011] The 2004 report was discussed on Tuesday in the Knesset Committee of Inquiry into Women Trafficking. Committee chair Zehava Gal-On (Yahad) backed the conclusions of the 2004 report on treatment of victims, saying that a shelter was opened in February that can house 50 women, but has taken in only 23 women who are waiting to testify in sex slavery cases. All the rest of the women are being held in prisons without any assistance while awaiting deportation, Gal-On said. Gal- On also noted that the report found that the Internal Security Ministry has issued only seven visas to victims, which has forced most of them to go back into prostitution. --- Trafficking in Israel Task Force on Human Trafficking tfht.org/about-human-trafficking/trafficking-in-israel/ [accessed 14 February 2011] Israel is a destination country for human trafficking. Women and children are brought into the country every year to be exploited as modern day slaves. Rates of human trafficking in Israel are alarmingly high though the exact extent is not known. Nearly all of the trafficking victims in Israel come from the former Soviet Union . Most victims enter the country through Israel ’s border with Egypt . Once in Israel , victims are often sold and resold to pimps and brothel owners who force them to work in slave-like conditions. At every stage in the process, the victims are abused and exploited, often suffering severe beatings, rape and even starvation. Israel has made limited progress in the fight against human trafficking but more can and must be done. Significant resources must be dedicated to combating trafficking in Israel in the areas of prevention, protection, and prosecution. --- Sex slavery: Israel’s thriving trade Emma Sabry www.esinislam.com/Articles_And_Essays/Emma_Sabry/Emma_Sabry_15.htm [accessed 14 February 2011] Rachel Benziman the legal advisor to the Israeli Women’s network backed up Menuhin’s words by explaining how difficult it is to find witnesses. “It's not a problem of finding the right section in the criminal code. It is more a problem of finding the women who will testify and finding the motivation”, Benziman said, according to Reuters. What’s more shocking is that, since 1994, no single woman has testified against any trafficker. Many say this could be attributed to the fact that although women are the victims here, trafficked women are the ones usually arrested as illegal workers, while the men who brought them to Israel, who are usually Israeli, are not. --- Police arrest 12 in raid on Israel's largest human-trafficking ring Yuval Goren, Haaretz, 09.03.2009 www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/police-arrest-12-in-raid-on-israel-s-largest-human-trafficking-ring-1.271710 [accessed 14 February 2011] At the end of a two-year international investigation, 12 Israelis were arrested yesterday along with over 20 suspects in several other countries. The investigation was assisted in large part by a former criminal, who was recruited as an undercover agent and infiltrated the trafficking ring on the police's behalf. He recorded dozens of conversations among the suspected gang members, including some in which Saban allegedly ordered physical violence against, and even murder of, women who refused to work as prostitutes. The gang allegedly recruited thousands of women from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Uzbekistan by promising them work in Israel as waitresses or dancers. The women were then flown to Egypt, and from there they were smuggled across the border by Bedouin. --- Israel Put Up Women For Sale In A Bid To Curb Female Trafficking VR Sreeraman, Medindia Health Network, October 24, 2010 www.medindia.net/news/Isreal-Put-Up-Women-For-Sale-In-A-Bid-To-Curb-Female-Trafficking-75762-1.htm [accessed 14 February 2011] In a bid to draw attention to female trafficking in Tel Aviv, Israel, around fifteen women were put up for sale in a shopping mall of the country. The display, which had been sponsored by the Israeli Task Force Against Human Trafficking, saw real women being put on exhibition with price tags ranging from 5,500 dollars to 11,000 dollars, though the sale was not real. Maya Speer, attorney and human rights activist, pretended to be "Sophia", and wore makeup that made her look like she had a black eye to highlight the cruelty that trafficking also generates towards women. --- Israeli women being trafficked abroad The Jerusalem Post, 03/13/2007 www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=54550 [accessed 14 February 2011] While police have struggled to cope with the growing problem of human trafficking through Israel, human traffickers have begun to ship Israeli women to foreign countries, said MK Zehava Gal-On Tuesday. Gal- On also said that the country is unprepared for this new trend. 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