Israel’s interior minister called for legalizing prostitution in the country. “Prostitution in Israel is carried out in the ugliest of conditions,” Avraham Poraz told a Knesset hearing Tuesday, referring to the illegal trafficking of foreign sex workers, for which the Jewish state is regularly rapped by international watchdog groups.
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