Israel: A new report reveals 100% of Thai agricultural workers were sexually assaulted
"Every Thai foreign worker has been sexually abused in Israel, says a new report" 20 October 2021
Every foreign agricultural worker was sexually assaulted in Israel, according to a new report presented to the Knesset's Special Committee on Foreign Workers...Shocking levels of abuse were uncovered by the report, whose authors issued a warning that "The State of Israel has abandoned these women."
Compiled by immigration experts, Dr Yahel Kurlander and Dr Shahar Shoham, the report found that 100 per cent of foreign agriculture workers were sexually assaulted. Out of 654 Thai foreign workers questioned, all of them said they had been exposed to sexual assault.
However, with more than 25,000 Thai migrant workers said to be working in Israel and supplying the majority of the labour for Israel's agriculture industry, the number of workers suffering sexual abuse is likely to be much higher.
Currently, there does not appear to be a proper and secure means available to foreign workers who have been victims of sexual abuse to lodge a complaint...
Representatives from the National Insurance Institute (NII) and Israel Police acknowledged that their systems do not possess the necessary data for complaints from foreign workers and immigrants. A follow-up discussion is expected over the failure.