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However, in , indoor prostitution, but not street prostitution, was prohibited, and is controlled by the Israeli Criminal Law , Sections — Archived from the original on 29 July

A law criminalizing the procuring of sex services went into effect on Friday, over the objections of some government offices and welfare groups, who sought a delay to ensure government rehabilitation programs were ready to aid the thousands of newly out-of-work prostitutes.

The new law, approved a year and a half ago by the Knesset, punishes those caught seeking the services of a prostitute, as well as those apprehended in a location chiefly used for prostitution, such as a brothel. The law was designed to come into effect mid to give the state time to form rehabilitation mechanisms Prostitutes Tel Aviv sex workers and allow them Prostitutes Tel Aviv find alternative livelihoods.

Punishing prostitution clients was first introduced by Sweden in its Sex Purchase Act — Prostitutes Tel Aviv adopted by Norway, Iceland, Canada, France and Northern Ireland — which requires consumers to pay a fine or face up to six months in jail, even as prostitution technically remains legal. Last year, then-state attorney Shai Nitzan published a directive on enforcement of Prostitutes Tel Aviv laws under which lap dances are considered prostitution if there is intimate contact between the dancer and the client.

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Women leaders in the country have also worked to decrease prostitution and sex trafficking in the country Prostitutes Tel Aviv the "Nordic Model", which does not victimize sellers and bans the sale of prostitution. Their bill was set to reach Israel's Ministerial Committee for Legislation near the Prostitutes Tel Aviv of The Knesset unanimously passed a law forbidding the buying of sex, as Israel joins other countries that have taken this route in recent years such as Sweden and France.

For any further violations the offender could be prosecuted and the fine could reach 75, shekels. According to the findings released in March by a Parliamentary Inquiry Committee, between 3, and 5, women had been smuggled into Israel and sold into prostitution in the previous four years. Most Prostitutes Tel Aviv the prostitutes came from UkraineMoldovaUzbekistanChina and Russiaand many were smuggled through Egypt.

Ina report by the Knesset's Committee on the Status Prostitutes Tel Aviv Women reported that in recent years the number of trafficked women had dropped to less than 1, though there are still reports that women and other people who are forced into trafficking are brought in through more covert ways.

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Sinceno cases Prostitutes Tel Aviv human trafficking have been reported in Israel and only a limited number of women were brought to the country to be prostitutes. An organization calling itself the Prostitutes Tel Aviv Force on Human Trafficking' claims that men, in total, visit brothels in Israel up to one million times a month.

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See also: Human trafficking in Israel. Jerusalem: BBC News.

A law criminalizing the procuring of sex services went into effect on Friday, over the objections of some government offices and welfare. December saw another raid on a sex workers' workplace in Tel Aviv, with 11 people arrested on charges of running a 'prostitution ring'.

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Current Israeli law doesn't explicitly forbid the exchange of sex services for money - however - soliciting prostitution, sex trafficking, and operating a brothel are punishable offenses. In July , the bill went into effect over the objections of some government offices and welfare groups, who sought a delay to ensure government rehabilitation programs were ready to aid the thousands of newly out-of-work prostitutes. Despite the penal code, using the services of a prostitute carries widespread legitimacy in Israel, and social norms distinguish between prostitution and trafficking.

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