Israeli Charged With Trafficking African Migrants An Israeli man has been charged with participation in a human trafficking ring that captured and tortured African migrants in Egypt's neighboring Sinai desert. The indictment, announced Sunday, says the accused extorted tens of thousands of dollars from Eritrean and Sudanese migrants in Israel whose relatives were held captive in Sinai. The charge sheet says that over the past nine months, the suspect collected ransoms of up to $40,000 each for dozens of captives held by Sinai Bedouin. The Bedouin were supposed to smuggle them over the border into Israel. According to the indictment, the traffickers threatened to kill the captives or remove their kidneys for sale if their relatives in Israel didn't pay up.