Human trafficking

Suspect in sex-trafficking case extradited from Serbia to Israel for questioning

Yosef Koperschmidt, a suspected member of a sex-trafficking network, has been extradited from Serbia to Israel and will be questioned by police in connection with an ongoing investigation.

Sex-trafficking (Illustrative).
Migrants try to board smugglers' boats in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France on September 27, 2025; illustrative.

Migrants share tutorials for human smuggling on social media - report

A MDA medic holds a baby, born to a Napalese surrogate mother [Illustrative]

Justice Ministry unit warns against surrogacy procedures in Ukraine

Lev Tahor member Yoel Alter, 35, is escorted by Guatemalan police officers after being arrested at court in Guatemala City on January 24, 2025.

Leader of ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor sect extradited to Mexico, charged with human trafficking


Did a Chinese man kidnap his granddaughter to pay his gambling debt? - report

The grandfather supposedly blamed his daughter, the granddaughter's mother, for the entire incident. When it happened is unclear, but it reflects the issue of child trafficking.

 An illustrative photo of a man and granddaughter.

Modern slavery in Israel: The women victims of human trafficking

The US State Department TIP report states that Israel does not meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so

 Women with price tags on their hands are displayed in the window of a store called Woman To Go in a shopping mall in Tel Aviv to raise awareness about and protest against the trafficking of women.

Stop human traffickers, Pope Francis says after Italy's migrant shipwreck

Local authorities said 70 bodies had so far been recovered following the incident.

 POPE FRANCIS met with Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayeb at Sakhir Palace, south of Manama, Bahrain, in November.

American patron of Israeli archaeology becomes focus of New York’s antiquities trafficking unit

Shelby White has already relinquished at least two dozen items worth at least $20 million.

 “Shelby White & Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center”

Ex-kickboxer Andrew Tate says Romanian prosecutors have no evidence against him

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate believes the Romanian government has no grounds to hold him.

 Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are escorted by police officers outside the headquarters of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, in Bucharest, Romania, January 10, 2023.

Romanian prosecutors take away luxury cars seized in Andrew Tate case

After Tate failed his legal appeal on charged of human trafficking, authorities have begun to seize Tate's cars and properties

 Andrew Tate

Israel recognized 325 human trafficking victims in first five-year report

The Justice Ministry released its first report on human trafficking in Israel. * The report spanned 2017-2021.

 Illustrative image of human trafficking.

Knesset passes law to combat human trafficking

The Justice Ministry's plan will give the Israeli government the tools to combat human trafficking, the ministry said.

 Minister of Justice Gideon Saar speaks at a swearing in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's residence in Jerusalem, on March 6, 2022.

What's behind Iran's claims of Iraqi women trafficking crackdown? - analysis

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence organization was involved in arresting the leader of a “gang” involved in trafficking Iranian women and girls to northern Iraq. 

Members of special IRGC forces attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2022.

'Stacks of bodies': 46 dead migrants found in truck in Texas

A San Antonio Fire Department official said there were no signs of water in the truck, which was found next to railroad tracks in a remote area in the city.

 Law enforcement officers work at the scene where people were found dead inside a trailer truck in San Antonio, Texas, US, June 27, 2022.