The leading team of the association

Ayelet Ben Ner

Ayelet Ben Ner, M.A., graduated culture and gender studies from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Over a decade she has been an activist in the Israeli sex industry. In her activity in the association, she seeks to promote connections between theory and the field of sex work, while bringing the lived experiences of people in the sex industry to the research.  

 

Dr. Yeela Lahav-Raz

Yeela Lahav-Raz is a senior lecturer at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  She is an anthropologist specializing in gender and sexuality, sex-work studies, digital anthropology and the intersections of gender and sexual politics, technological developments, and social deviance.
For the last decade, she is researching sex work regulations and politics, mainly in Israel. Her studies various, such as youth and young adults involved in prostitution; masculine repertoires of sex industry clients; technological developments and their ramification for sex work; the history of prostitution policy and regulation in Israel; the impact of digital media on sex work activism; and perceptions of sex workers towards legislative models. Dr Lahav-Raz is also one of the co-founders of the Israeli Association for the Study of Prostitution, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking.

 

Prof. Einat Peled

Einat Peled is an associate professor at the school of social work at Tel Aviv University. For the last 15 years she has conducted, together with graduate students and colleagues, quantitative and qualitative studies on various aspects of prostitution, sex trafficking, and paying for sex. She applies a critical feminist constructivist lens to explore the complex intrapersonal, inter-personal, professional, and social dynamics involved in the construction of “prostitution” as a social problem in Israel, and the professional responses to people involved in the sex industry. Her studies aim to facilitate an understanding of paying and getting paid for sex as complex, multifaceted, personal and social phenomena. She is a co-founder of the Israeli Association for the Study of Prostitution, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking.

 

Ayelet Prior

Ayelet prior is a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University, the School of Social Work. Her research explores various aspects of the sex industry, the phenomenon of paying for sex, and commercially sexually exploited youth. She focuses on social constructions of gendered identities, sexuality, power relations, and deviancy, as well as methodological and ethical aspects in this research domain. She is one of the co-founders of the association.