BBC: Israel women trafficking soars
Israel women trafficking soars
Between 3,000 and 5,000 women have been smuggled into Israel in the past four years to work as prostitutes, according to a parliamentary inquiry.
The report described how the women are sold at public auctions for as much as $10,000 and forced to work up to 18 hours a day.
On average the women receive only three percent of the money they earn from prostitution, the report said.
Most of the women are from the former Soviet Union.
Many are raped and beaten as they are smuggled into Israel over the Egyptian border, the inquiry found.
Attitudes
Zehava Galon, of the opposition Yahad Party, presented the report to the speaker of the Knesset on Wednesday.
"We began this inquiry to investigate the extent of this phenomenon and raise political awareness of their plight and the brutal nature of the trafficking of women in this time of globalisation," said Ms Galon. [more]
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