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A member of the US Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to discuss the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, at Cannon House Office Building in Washington, April 9, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
June 7, 2025, 11:08 am
US announces man wrongly deported to El Salvador will return to face federal charges
White House doubles down on claims Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a gang member after acknowledging resident of 14 years was sent away by mistake; defense calls charges ‘baseless’
By Eric Tucker, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and Ben Finley
Archaeologists unearthed a 2,500-year-old mass burial site associated with trade caravans from Yemen, Phoenicia, and Egypt in the Negev, next to modern-day Tlalim Junction. The discovery was disclosed to the public by the Israel Antiquities Authority on February 5, 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
February 9, 2025, 10:40 am
Mysterious 2,500-year-old burials hint at human trafficking in ancient Israel
A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first millennium BCE
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: Demonstrators take part in a protest against prostitution outside the Gogo strip club in Tel Aviv on December 22, 2016. (Flash90)
June 17, 2023, 11:02 pm
US State Department: Israel inadequate in fighting human trafficking
Report puts Israel in Tier 2 of trafficking rankings, meaning country does not meet minimum standards, but recognizes ‘significant efforts’ to improve
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A carer helping an elderly Israeli to cross the street in Tel Aviv. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
February 22, 2023, 11:11 am
‘Modern slavery’: How foreign caregivers in Israel have been extorted for decades
ToI exposes a multi-million-dollar industry in which foreign workers are compelled to pay ‘placement fees’ to employment ‘brokers’ – with the government’s full knowledge
By Inna Lazareva
Members of the extreme ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor sect escaping from a detention shelter in Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, on September 29, 2022. (Benjamin ALFARO/AFP)
October 2, 2022, 10:57 am
Leaders of Lev Tahor cult released from Mexico jail due to ‘lack of evidence’
Lawyer for pair suspected of human trafficking and sex crimes says they were ‘100% acquitted’; source involved in operation says decision a blow to police’s ‘untainted legal work’
By ToI Staff
Audrey Strauss, acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York, on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
April 30, 2022, 2:30 pm
US judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction
But in partial victory for British socialite, judge concludes that the 3 conspiracy counts charged the same crime and she can only be sentenced for one; sentencing set for June
By Larry Neumeister
Illustrative -- Demonstrator at a protest march against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Tel Aviv, on February 26, 2022 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 25, 2022, 7:28 pm
Ukraine refugees said suspected of trafficking teen because questioned in Russian
Court rules family can enter Israel following 3-day detention at Ben Gurion Airport after ‘controversial’ interrogation in Russian rather than Ukrainian led to misunderstanding
By ToI Staff
A boy stands with a group of people fleeing Ukraine as they stand in a line after arriving at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
March 16, 2022, 6:44 pm
UN rushing to prevent human traffickers from capitalizing on Ukraine refugee exodus
Around half of more than 3 million people who have fled country since invasion began are children; International Organization for Migration warns that unaccompanied minors at risk
By Nina Larson
Illustrative: Demonstrators take part in a protest against prostitution outside the Gogo strip club in Tel Aviv on December 22, 2016. (Flash90)
July 2, 2021, 2:32 pm
Israel downgraded in State Department human trafficking report
US criticizes Jewish state for fewer investigations and prosecutions in trafficking cases in 2020 compared to 2019
By Amy Spiro
Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2004. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
April 13, 2020, 7:10 pm
Ohio State to give Epstein donation to human trafficking initiative
After review determines sex offender billionaire gave $336,000 to the school, OSU says ‘retaining these gifts would not be consistent with the university’s values’
By Marcy Oster
Over the years, there has been a drastic decline in the number of status applications approved for women who arrived in Israel illegally (Illustration: iStock/via Zman Yisrael)
February 16, 2020, 3:02 am
In the battle against sex trafficking, Israel’s ‘invisible’ women find new voice
Hundreds of women who are staying in the Jewish state illegally fall victim to abuse and find they have no one to turn to. Several NGOs are now trying to offer them a lifeline
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
A prostitute arranges payment with an undercover police officer in footage captured by a hidden camera and broadcast by Channel 13. (Channel 13/screenshot)
January 18, 2020, 9:02 am
Police bust sex crime ring that trafficked dozens of Ukrainian women to Israel
Criminal organization arranged for women’s travel, living quarters, managed them as prostitutes; head of organization earned over NIS 11 million in recent months
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women push their baby strollers as they walk in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, on July 4, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 5, 2019, 3:39 pm
Rabbi revealed as key suspect in alleged baby trafficking ring
Court lifts gag order on naming Shmuel Puretz as involved in scheme said to take away newborn for adoption to ultra-Orthodox couple
By ToI Staff
British Police forensics officers work on a truck found to be containing 39 dead people, at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, east of London, on October 23, 2019. (Ben STANSALL / AFP)
October 24, 2019, 2:44 pm
UK police say 39 found dead in truck were Chinese nationals
Officials search properties in Northern Ireland as driver remains under arrest; victims may have frozen to death in refrigerated container
By ToI Staff and AFP
Alan Dershowitz at NEP Studios in New York, February 3, 2016. (John Lamparski/Getty Images for Hulu, via JTA)
August 13, 2019, 11:54 pm
In mock trial, Dershowitz to defend Bible figures from child trafficking charge
Against backdrop of Epstein scandal, celebrity lawyer will represent brothers of biblical Joseph at New York’s Temple Emanu-El event in November
By Sam Sokol
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