{"id":484661,"date":"2026-06-09T22:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/484661\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:24:12","slug":"israel-police-arrest-seven-for-human-trafficking-blackmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/484661\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Police arrest seven for human trafficking, blackmail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel Police arrested seven individuals suspected of running a human trafficking<\/a> ring, exploiting young women, and blackmail, police announced on Monday.<\/p>\n

The Coastal District Police began a covert investigation into the ring months ago after suspicions regarding the suspects arose.<\/p>\n

The investigation uncovered that the suspects exploited a network of young women, some of whom were disabled or struggling with financial issues and mental health<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Israel Police<\/a>, the suspects lured the women in with false promises of office jobs and provided them housing, before advertising them on social media and forcing them to provide sexual services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All of the suspects, including a man and a woman, who are the two main suspects, were arrested during raids on their homes on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of shekels in suspected blackmail money were found in the homes and seized by police during the raids.<\/p>\n

According to a Walla report, victims were held in a situation where they “had no ability to do anything,” with their passports and means of contacting the outside world withheld.<\/p>\n

Judge Boris Sherman, who reviewed the investigation, told Walla that the ongoing investigation into the ring is complex and extensive, including dozens of substantial investigative actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He determined that there was a clear reason for the arrests as the suspects posed a danger to the peace and security of the victims and the public. He also ordered the investigation team at the Coastal Police Department to advance the investigation with particular priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Police arrested seven individuals suspected of running a human trafficking ring, exploiting young women, and blackmail, police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[737,58437,116332,85,46,1158,43,80299],"class_list":["post-484661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-crime","tag-human-trafficking","tag-human-trafficking-in-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-news","tag-sexual-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}