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Israel not doing enough to combat human trafficking "The report cited data from Israel showing that Israeli authorities have recognised 3,736 survivors of human trafficking; 3,100 of them have been found at the Centre for Refugees and Migrants. Moreover, over the last two decades, only 1,454 working migrants received aid from the Israeli Ministry of Justice's legal office after being considered victims of human trafficking. The report concluded that "Israel, with its policy and failures, encourages human trafficking and slavery through its failure to tackle it." This comes after the State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report, issued earlier this year, criticised Israel for not making a significant effort to combat human trafficking or meet international standards to combat trafficking. According to the report, the Israeli government, led by then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, did not allocate a budget for the national plan to combat human trafficking, two years after its approval. It has also gone back on serious and sustained initiatives to combat trafficking, including reducing investigations and the prosecution of perpetrators and understaffing at its only authority directly charged with dealing with the matter."