Analysis Criminal Neglect: The Israeli Government Is Complicit in the Murder of Arab Women
There are only two shelters for Arab women, lawmakers are dragging their feet, police are underperforming and above it all a cloud of racism hangs
Vered Lee
In One of Tel Aviv's Shadiest Areas, Turning Stripping Into Art
Pole dancers performing in strip clubs, dancers without faces, women in painful articles of clothing – a recent exhibition presented the dehumanizing nature of sex work, and did so in one of the Tel Aviv compounds where the industry still thrives
Analysis Murder of 12-year-old Girl Shows Human Rights in Israel Are Only for Jews
The asylum-seeker community in Israel is in a state of crisis and its women and teenage girls are paying an increasingly heavy price
Israeli Aid Arriving for Bedouin Rape Victims Is Kept Secret for Their Own Sake
In one case, which is by no means rare, Yasmin tells of a 15-year old shepherd girl who fell pregnant after being gang-raped, without being aware of the pregnancy
Israel to Classify Lap Dances at Strip Clubs as Prostitution
State Prosecutor's office issues new directive clamping down on such activities in the country's strip clubs, stating that under some circumstances dances could be considered an illegal 'act of prostitution'
Analysis New Israeli Bill Fining Prostitution Clients May Change Thousands of Women's Lives
The government-sponsored bill does not go as far as the Swedish model, which criminalizes johns, but it is a positive step forward
Analysis New Sex Work Bill Goes Too Easy on Clients
In choosing fines rather than criminalization, Israeli Justice Minister is hiding behind the failures of other, flopped, anti-prostitution laws
Opinion Miri Regev Found Another Enemy: Bedouin Women With Cameras
It’s hard to believe that the culture minister perceives a threat from women who have learned, for the first time, to hold a camera and look at the reality of their lives
Opinion Israel Must Help Asylum Seekers Trapped in the Sex Industry
Human rights in Israel cannot be restricted to Jewish women only
'I Thought Tel Aviv Was Open, but Nothing Prepared Me for This'
Meet Natasha, the transgender former prostitute who has begun to heal through 'Turning the Tables,' a therapeutic organization where she 'found myself creating rather than destroying for the first time'
The Darfuri Asylum Seeker in Israel Who Takes Refuge in Writing
Adam Ahmed fled the massacre in Sudan in 2004 and survived a bloodbath in Egypt, yet is afraid to walk the streets of Tel Aviv. His memoir takes readers on an insightful journey into life in exile
Israel Working to Deport Victim of Human Trafficking
'Sofia' was lured to Israel and forced into sex work; now separated from her son’s Israeli father, she faces expulsion
Man Suspected of Killing Prostitute in Tel Aviv With Date-rape Drug While With a Second Prostitute
Police believe he sought services of another prostitute instead of getting help, and the delay caused woman’s death
Analysis Maybe Yairs Tape Will Hasten His Dad to Criminalize the Clients of Prostitutes
What will it take to speed up the advancement of legislation to criminalize the clients of prostitution and the rehabilitation of those working in prostitution?
Empty Streets and Locked Doors: Prostitution Is Disappearing From Tel Aviv's Underbelly
Real estate projects at the old central bus station, a stronger police presence and a bill incriminating customers are changing the area for the better
Opinion How Israel's Tourism Industry Enables Prostitution and Human Trafficking
Often pimps and crime organizations prefer to use hotels as a substitute for brothels to blur their involvement and evade the enforcement authorities
Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel Increasingly Turning to Prostitution
Many of the women survived torture in Sinai and are single mothers in Israel with no support from the state
Opinion A Courageous Move to Strip 'Sex Entertainment' Down to Its Bare, Ugly Bones
With her firm, feminist ruling to shut down a strip joint, a Tel Aviv judge has exposed the hellish, demeaning reality of the sex industry and the euphemisms used to whitewash it
Operators of Israeli Internet Site Selling Sexual Services Hit With Rare Indictment
Nina Pirshet, who ran the site and received millions of shekels from pimps and sex workers, also tried to persuade women to become prostitutes
10 Indicted for Running One of Israel's Biggest Brothels, in Tel Aviv
Eight of those arrested are women; their two brothels had an estimated total income in excess of $28 million over several years