Israel implemented the Nordic model, and set aside money to help sex workers exit,
Efrat Rubinstein, the head of Israel's Stripper's Union, challenged on decision-making processes behind the legislation, saying that "no welfare or aid organization representative has the right to represent Israeli sex workers, and they are being given the right to speak and make choices for women who have not asked to be represented by them."
Rubinstein also demanded that Israel's strip clubs be reopened, saying that their closure has created unsafe working environments for strippers and that programs have only offered them employment for minimum wage. This, she said, has created an impossible situation where strippers must choose between unsafe working conditions or poverty.
"There is a deep failure in the efficacy of steps that have been taken [to help] us that must be examined," said Rubinstein. "The minimum wage jobs that we have been offered as an alternative [to stripping] are not any safer for women when they put us in financial duress."