From The Fringe, Post II / Israel and modern-day slavery

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025933.html

Bombs and warplanes aren't the only controversial commodities that Russia has been transporting abroad. Just ask Russian newspaper reporter Yaroslava Tankova.

Tankova went undercover to expose the work of Russia's trafficking mafia (watch from 1:55).

She joined a group of women and girls who were promised jobs as waitresses in Israel. Unfortunately, Tankova's group won't be found dishing up hummus on Tel Aviv beach. They were trafficked to Israel via Egypt by Bedouins to be sold as sex slaves.

"One of the girls nearly died from sunstroke. Another was raped by an Arab guard. He used a plastic bag instead of a condom," Tankova reports in the video. "We were treated like meat. One man hit me but the other guards intervened. They didn't want the commodity spoiled before it was sold."

These events witnessed by Tankova are not isolated. Every year, several hundred women and girls, as young as thirteen and primarily from Russia, the Ukraine and other Eastern European countries, are induced to leave their homes with promises of work as caregivers, waitresses, maids and secretaries.

But Israel is not the "promised land" for women forced into the sex industry.

Perhaps the most shocking aspect of all is the public sale of women to pimps, known as an "auction." Like traders in a cattle market, the traffickers inspect the "goods" and bid for the women they want to buy...