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State Department Restores Israel to Tier 1

By Drooid · Oct 9, 2026, 3:44 AM UTC · How we work

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U.S. State Department returned Israel to Tier 1 in its 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report.
Israeli police opened 42 trafficking investigations in 2025, including 33 sex-trafficking and nine forced-labor cases.
A February 2026 indictment marked Israel’s first forced-labor employer charge in more than a decade.
NGOs said Israel’s high evidentiary threshold left many foreign and Palestinian victims under-recognized and services hard to access outside Tel Aviv.

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U.S. State Department returned Israel to Tier 1 in its 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report.
Israeli police opened 42 trafficking investigations in 2025, including 33 sex-trafficking and nine forced-labor cases.
A February 2026 indictment marked Israel’s first forced-labor employer charge in more than a decade.
NGOs said Israel’s high evidentiary threshold left many foreign and Palestinian victims under-recognized and services hard to access outside Tel Aviv.