أرشيف موقع العهد الإخباري من 1999-2018
ارشيف من : 2005-2008
Israel ranks 2nd in human trafficking
parliamentary committee, the issue has created a booming sex trade industry which rakes more than $1 billion a year.
Findings of the report showed that each year some 3,000 to 5,000 women are smuggled and sold into the prostitution industry where they face danger, threats and violence.
These women are brought into Israel on the false promises of jobs, education and a better future.
"When I was in the Ukraine, I had a difficult life," said Marina, who is a victim of sex slavery. She came to Israel in 1999 at the age of 33 after answering a newspaper advertisement offering the opportunity to study abroad.
"I was taken to an apartment in Ashkelon, and other women there told me I was now in prostitution. I became hysterical, but a guy starting hitting me and then others there raped me."
"I was then taken to a place where they sold me - just sold me!" she said, recalling how she was locked in a windowless basement for a month, drank water from a toilet and was deprived of food.
Like Marina, some trafficked women are brought into Israel legally, while others are smuggled by Bedouins across the border from Egypt.
In all cases, the traffickers take away the women`s passports before selling them on to pimps.
Sometimes the women are subjected to degrading human auctions, where they are stripped, examined and sold for $8,000-$10,000.
The US State Department ranks Israel in the second tier of human trafficking around the world.
Most of these unfortunate women in Israel come from Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan and Russia.