Israel prostitution
Police enforce prostitution law unevenly, trafficking victims face visa barriers, comptroller finds
The audit, conducted from December 2024 through July 2025, examined enforcement of the law, investigations into trafficking for prostitution, protection of victims, and decisions on residence visas.
Beit She'an sextortion ring: Posing as underage sex workers, network blackmails thousands from men
Four years after ban: Israeli prostitution consumption increases - study
Israeli prostitutes fashion a sex trade exit
Welfare Minister Haim Katz supports bill to prosecute patrons of prostitutes
As proposed, johns over age 18 would have to pay a NIS 750 fine for using sexual services.
Analysis: Should prostitution be illegal in Israel?
Knesset dumps on judge’s permissive ruling, but will it finally act?
Israeli brothels operated by 'working women' to face less government prosecution
Prostitution in Israel is legal, but pimping and brothels remain outside the law, and new legislation proposing to persecute only patrons of the sex trade is making its way through the Knesset.
Alan Dershowitz cleared from sex scandal accusations, prosecuting lawyers apologize
Dershowitz, who as billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer, was named as one of several men who also had sex with the women procured by Epstein.
Bill fighting underage prostitution moves forward
Knesset Committee for the Rights of Children chairwoman Yifat Shasha-Biton of Kulanu proposed to increase the prison sentence for soliciting sex from a prostitute who is a minor from three to five years.
The face of Israeli prostitution
In the aftermath of a sex worker’s suicide, ‘Metro’ takes a look inside the brothels of Tel Aviv.
Suicide at brothel highlights the status of sex workers in Israel
Governments unsure how to deal with the “flesh trade.”
Police close Tel Aviv brothel after suicide
The central-Tel-Aviv brothel resumed business only hours after a prostitute committed suicide.
No worst, there is none
Lilach Tzur Ben-Moshe, a young fashion editor at Ma’ariv, oversees a sewing/design center in the heart of south Tel Aviv, catering to 50 prostitutes a year, some still working.
Culture of prostitution
Walking in my neighborhood was at times unpleasant, but it wasn’t frightening until March 19.