JERUSALEM: Israeli police say they have broken a prostitution ring where Jewish women were brainwashed into having sex with non-Jewish men as a path to religious redemption. Court documents seen by AFP on Monday show the prime suspect was an eccentric 60-year-old man from Kiryat Arba, a hard-line settlement in the southern West Bank. Police say they arrested a group of eight “messianic” men and women who targeted vulnerable women and “prostituted them under the influence of drugs and alcohol.” They told them that having sex specifically with non-Jews would “save the Jewish people and bring about redemption.” Their “clients” included Palestinians from the West Bank and foreign workers from Tel Aviv, the newspaper said.