Did you think that real estate agents are the cunning and manipulative beast in nature? One that will pressure you to close a deal and sign you to a draconian exclusivity, and cut the two coveted percentages?
Wait until you get to know the female real estate property, also called the "womb" of surrogate mothers, where babies are supposed to live for nine months and arrange for the brokerage agencies the commission in the market: NIS 50,000.
"Want to be a surrogate mother? Let's earn 165,000 shekels plus extras!"
And it is not that we were not warned of this result: if the State of Israel allows anyone to set up an agency to find unsupervised surrogates, and for every woman who comes from their advertisements, the agency receives tens of thousands of shekels, what could go wrong?
Probably everything.
"Real-time" researchers Gali Ginat and Mali Kampner sat in front of the camera in a line of women who chose to have a long pregnancy, for a fee, and give couples who were unable to have children the greatest gift imaginable: a baby.
This is a solution that saves Israeli couples the complex and cumbersome process of surrogacy abroad: everything here, in Hebrew and at a distance of 12,000 - acronyms that mean "close to Bochletria".
It turns out that there are women in Israel for whom being pregnant is a dream come true.
The happiness they experienced during their private pregnancy makes them want to get into another pregnancy, and end up making another happy family.
Some women do this following trauma experienced after an abortion.
But there are also women, here in Israel, who have gone through the process due to financial hardship.
This is why in Israel, light and accepted surrogacy in third world countries is prohibited by law - so that women from difficult socio-economic backgrounds do not become a "uterus for rent" and trade is conducted around their bodies.
One has to be either innocent or an idiot to think that an amount equal to almost three years of earning a minimum wage will not lead women to choose this lucrative option.
In one of the stories, the investigation revealed that it was a family decision, due to a search for online loans that the family came to.
"I saw money, I saw us move into a big apartment - and I saw a quality of life," so what's the difference between us and Romania, Colombia or Georgia?
The women who agreed to expose the exploitation industry reveal a disturbing picture: the agencies are not sick of anything that will help "close a deal": they will help you pass the fitness test at the psychologist, teach you what to say to pass the Rorschach stain test, push you to take hormones unnecessarily.
As part of the human real estate deal, the investigation said that even the contract signed by the surrogate is accompanied by a paid lawyer on behalf of the agency. Pampering bathroom, "they would not think to do.
Along the way, a process that is supposed to be under consent and completion, becomes a journey of emotional manipulation: women who are about to go through a sensitive emotional process tell of disregarding their feelings, waving banknotes for hormonal treatments and even blackening oil in a Ministry of Health committee.
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