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Israeli lawmakers have given preliminary
approval to a law that would relegate, but
not allow, prostitution.
LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
illhere is a traffic jam on
the road leading to Tel
. Baruch beach, Israel's
most famous
"Hookers' Row."
It is a cold, windy night,
but drivers are lined up in
their cars, checking out the
dozen or so prostitutes,
many of whom are
transvestites or transsex-
uals, shivering in their
tights or skimpy dresses on
the roadside. Drivers stop;
hookers get in; they drive
into the city-owned parking
lot —which charges five
shekels per vehicle — and do
their business. An ice-cream
truck sells snacks, cigarettes
and condoms.
Near the lively intersec-
tion of Allenby and
Hayarkon, less than a block
away from the Opera Tower
shopping mall and luxury
condominium high rise,
prostitutes are strolling past
cafes, restaurants and candy
stores. "Come here, honey,"
they say to the passing men,
and if a deal is struck, they
go together into one of the
cheap motels on the side
streets. At four in the morn-
ing, the prostitutes, most of
whom are heroin addicts,
can be seen slumped over the
tables at the cafes, and this
hookers' row becomes, as one
veteran streetwalker put it,
"Desolation Row."
What they are doing —
selling sex in public — is
legal. The law only says they
can't work out of private
apartments, and even this is
rarely enforced. But recent-
ly, the Knesset gave
preliminary approval to a
law that would reverse the
present situation — by for-
bidding prostitution on the
streets and in the parks and
making it legal only in pri-
vate apartments.
The idea, said the law's
author, Meretz MK
Avraham Poraz, is to make
life safer and a little more
decent for the hookers, to
keep prostitution away from
the public, and to protect the
hookers' customers from get-
ting AIDS. He hopes to
achieve this last goal by ad-
ding a clause requiring pros-
l
titutes to have regular
health check-ups.
"They would have to
register and work with
licenses," he added, explain-
ing that since prostitution
cannot be stopped, Israel, in
this age of AIDS, had better
try to regulate it.
The proposal passed its
first vote with at least some
support from all the secular
parties, far left to far right.
Mr. Poraz believes it will
pass the necessary three
more votes and become law'
within a year. The religious
parties, however, are
adamantly against the bill.
But prostitution, if not ex-
actly legitimate, has long
been an institution in Israel.
Yediot Aharonot, the coun-
One legal goal is to
halt the spread of
AIDS.
try's largest daily news-
paper, publishes boldface
advertisements every day
for about 50 Tel Aviv and
Eilat "massage parlors,"
"health clubs" and "escort
services," which claim to
offer a choice of Israeli, Rus-
sian immigrant, European,
college or kibbutz girls.
There are about
4,000-5,000 prostitutes
working in Israel, estimates
"Nina" (not her real name),
an American-born, 15-year-
veteran Jewish hooker, who
started the Israeli prosti-
tutes rights group, We Are
Worthy.
The capital of the prostitu-
tion trade is Greater Tel
Aviv, with hookers — as
young as 12 — working at
night outside the diamond
bourse, the central bus and
train stations and other
spots besides Tel Baruch and
Allenby/Hayarkon. Male
prostitutes can be found in
Independence Park next to
the Tel Aviv Hilton, and pre-
teenage boys, mainly Rus-
sian immigrants and Pales-
tinians from the territories,
sell themselves at a park
near the central bus station,