Hard testimony against a familiar political figure: "Paid me for sex when I was 15" | First Post | Israel today

Yair (pseudonym) left home when he was only 13 and moved to Tel Aviv.

He lived on the street, slept in stairwells and on the beach.

As part of his attempts to survive, he came to the old Central Station area and worked in prostitution.

"I came to Tel Aviv and my last resort was prostitution, I really had no other choice. I quickly realized that everyone who comes to the street at such a young age, gets there because he wants to continue living," says Yair and adds: "I would stand on the road, they would stop next to me "I was asked a few questions and then I got in the car. Then we would go to a quiet place, there were some regular places and there they would perform the act that I would just wait for it to end.

He said that at the beginning of his journey he met a well-known political figure, "I first met him when I was 15. He came with his car and I remember there was a really bad smell in the car and inside it was a very stressed person."

Yair continues to recreate, "I got in the car and we drove away. From his stress and fear, everything had to be very fast and it worked in my favor because I did not want to be there."

According to Yair, the same figure drove him to a nearby place where he began stroking him and performing a sexual act on him.

He said, after two weeks the same person came back again, "for half a year we meet regularly once every few weeks. He would get there and if I was there, he obviously wanted me."

"I felt dirty"

According to Yair, "in the first meetings it was very concrete and purposeful."

He also says that the same personality used to perform a sexual act on him, pet him and remove him from the vehicle.

"He would pay me 300-250 shekels and I would go and buy alcohol to obscure what I had," Yair adds, "I just wanted it to end. I was not attracted to him, I was disgusted by him. After a few meetings he started talking and getting to know me, and I cooperated because They explained to me that this is how a regular customer is built and I need to have regular customers so that I have something to eat. "

How did you feel after the act?

"I would get out of the car and feel dirty. I felt like I wanted to immerse myself in fire water. Imagine the thing you can not eat or put in your mouth, and I force you to eat a huge portion of it and you have no other choice, you must eat it. You are touched and you are bound. I'm sacrificing my body and I'm playing the game but I do not want to be there. "

How did the meetings with him affect you?

"He was one of the first clients, and actually my entry into the world of feeds. At this point my life was deteriorating. You have to understand that to get through this thing, after the encounter you have to have alcohol and drugs to forget what was. These are people I would never do anything with. "If there was no money. As time goes on and I am in the story then there is more alcohol, more drugs, the health condition is not good. I became a person of the night. In the morning I was thrown in some corner and at night I am in prostitution."

A few years later, Yair began a rehabilitation process through the Elam organization and managed to get out of the circle of prostitution. "I left prostitution and felt that my life had managed to get on the right track," he recalled. I picked up the phone, took a picture and sent it to a social worker who accompanied me at the time. I asked her, 'Do you know who it is?'. She told me who he was. I explained to her that it was the regular guy I had and I told her about it. Focus on my life. "

After three years they meet again by chance, "When I was about 24, he suddenly stopped by my side with the car near my house and I immediately understood who he was. I said to him, 'Wait a minute, I go into the supermarket, buy something and come back.' The camera, and I sat down next to him. The first thing he did was touch me. I called him by his name, he answered me, 'No.' You asked him, 'Are you sure?' "And he denied it again. I was debating whether to spit in his face but in the end I just got off."

"Trauma re-watch"

The testimony against senior members of the community in recent weeks has flooded Yair with the story, and he decided to call that confrontational political figure and confront him.

"We met at a cafe in Tel Aviv and I threw accusations at him," says Yair.

"I told him about the consequences of his actions, and how he made me hate myself. He immediately knew who I was and remembered the cases. He did not apologize and did not apologize. He was mostly busy whining to me about his marital status and the health of some of those close to him. I filmed the meeting with a hidden camera and he also suspected it, but just before we parted he tried to touch me again. "

Did you talk afterwards?

"He sent me a message in which he wrote, 'Brother, you are a prince, you have moved me.'"

According to Yair, the next day he tried to coordinate dinner with him again, apparently in an attempt to silence him and prevent him from contacting the media.

"The whole feeling of disgust and trauma was re-watched, and he thinks that at dinner he will solve everything," says Yair.

"Instead of trying to fix, he did much worse."

Were there people who argued in front of you, "but it was consensual"?

"There were some, but they do not understand that when you are at this age, while you are supposed to be in school and you are alone in the world and just waiting for the day to end, you have no discretion and he was a part of it for me. And that they used my body. "