Prostitution is currently not illegal in Israel. In Israel, prostitution is considered legal – however running a brothel and pimping – earning a living off of sex workers is not legal.   Police are often short-staffed and underfunded, and more often than not, they look the other way when it comes to enforcing the law against these enterprises that are generating income from prostitution (Rosenthal, 385).   There are at least two problems with this picture.   First, due to the overwhelming population of illegal sex-workers living in Israel, the amount of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and AIDS which was once considered low in Israel are increasing rapidly (Rosenthal, 384).   In 2016, Dr. Itay Gal, a medical correspondent for Ynet News published an article that highlighted the various forms of STIs that were shown to be substantially on the rise in Israel: chlamydia, syphilis, and gonorrhea.  Although Dr. Gal does not attribute any specific reason for the increase in the