TFHT in the News

Success in Combating the Import of Women for Sex in Israel has Led Traffickers to Recruit Local Girls
16 August, 2009 Source: Haaretz Online http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1107851.html At the start of the new century, Israel found itself ...
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Obama Turns Blind Eye to Russian Mobsters and Slave Traders
7 July 2009 Source:Jim Kouri, CPP http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2009/07/11/obama-turns-blind-eye-to-russian-mobsters-and-s...
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For some Israeli Bedouin, border smuggling is a way of life
3 July 2009 Source: Haaretz online http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097509.html Early one morning A., a resident of one of the unrecognized...
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Trafficking in Persons Report 2009 - Israel
16 June 2009 Source: UNHCR http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a4214b128.html ISRAEL (Tier 2) Israel is a destination country for men and w...
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Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech 31 March 2009
From the website of Benjamin Netanyahu March 31, 2009 We will also generate a fundamental change in public safety. It was the Jewish people who be...
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People-trafficking gang uncovered
12 Mar 2009 Source: IRIN http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=83436 TEL AVIV, 12 March 2009 (IRIN) - The largest ever people-trafficking rin...
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CONTRABAND WOMEN -- A special report: Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women
By MICHAEL SPECTER (NYT) 3960 words Published: January 11, 1998 RAMLE, Israel - Irina always assumed that her beauty would somehow rescue her from...
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Sex Slaves in the Land of Israel
February 23, 2006 Several years ago, a photograph on the front page of The New York Times made an enormous impression on me. The photograph was of a ...
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U.S Orthodox rabbis urge Israel to crack down on human trafficking
May 31, 2007 By Haaretz Service A prominent organization of U.S. Orthodox rabbis has called on Israeli authorities to step up their fight against ...
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Rights group: Ban prostitution ads
April 11, 2006 Jerusalem Post - Rights group: Ban prostitution ads By RUTH EGLASH The advertisement of prostitution services in newspapers is il...
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Olmert pledges to prioritize battle against white slavery
March 15, 2006 Ruth Eglash, THE JERUSALEM POST Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised on Wednesday to place the battle against trafficking in ...
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Acting Prime Minister Olmert signs ATZUM's Manifesto against Human Trafficking
March 15, 2006 Acting Prime Minister Olmert signs ATZUM's Manifesto against Human Trafficking in Israel with ATZUM's Task Force against Human Traff...
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Israel's Modern-Day Slaves by Gary Rosenblatt
The Jewish Week: February 17, 2006 It is no secret that human trafficking — a discreet way to describe a horrific form of sexual slavery - is an in...
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Ready for prime time?
The Jerusalem Post, Jan. 12, 2006 'Three thousand women in Israel: raped, beaten, trafficked," the caption reads. "Is aid on the way?" As images of f...
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Tough new measures on human trafficking
The Jerusalem Report, December 26, 2005 Israel’s legislature and judiciary have both moved to toughen up the country’s policy on trafficking in h...
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