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Ten days ago in Israel:

Tel Aviv police arrested three people on Tuesday on suspicion of kidnapping a 23-year-old tourist and forcing her into a prostitution ring.

The woman arrived in Israel from Ecuador about a week ago in order to tour the country, according to her.

Last week:

A 19-year-old Jerusalem resident was arrested last week on suspicion of raping a disabled 12-year-old girl in the bathroom of a cafe in Jerusalem.

Dimi Reider reported last year at +972: “Guys, I just totally raped this student chick!”

This, essentially, appears to be the gist of the story of an encounter between an Israeli pick-up artist and a Czech medical student, published four years ago on the “success” forum of The Centre for the Arts of Seduction, an Israeli pick-up school.

At the time, the story went unnoticed by critical eyes – on the contrary, it was met with hoots, cheers and praise by other users of the forum, among them instructors at the school. Last week, however, it was recently rediscovered, rapidly spreading across Facebook and the Israeli blogosphere. The indignation then spilled back into the real world: On Friday, I reported in Haaretz that three bloggers – Lihi Yona, Reut Cohen and Maayan Sudai, of “Reuma“- filed two complaints with the Israel police, one on rape and incitement to rape against the author of the story, who encouraged readers to follow his example  - and one on incitement to commit a felony and incitement to violence. The bloggers – all law students – say this is a precedent-setting complaint: Incitement to violence has up until now been interpreted as incitement to physical, not sexual, violence.

Candy marketing campaign that went awry a couple years ago in Israel:

An overly creative advertising campaign for a candy bar this week put police and Knesset security on high alert.

The affair began when several women, including three MKs, received letters in the mail that appeared to come from a stalker…

“The main idea was to promote a [confection] product called Ego and to say that female politicians who have a big ego can have a suitor,” the source said.

“Tzipi Hotoveli is a good looking pious woman, and could have a suitor,” the source said in a reference to the Likud MK who was one of the letter’s recipients. “The letter was delicately phrased and there was nothing criminal here. We meant to send a candy basket to the MKs to clarify the point. But the letter reached the media and was blown out of proportion. I think the media hype proves the campaign was successful,” he said.

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