Haifa Regional Court Announces Encouraged Gas Will Be Prosecuted for Divorce Refusal, Although His Marriage was Canceled • Reason: Not to Allow Refuse to Get Out Without Punishment
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In an unusual move on Monday, the Haifa District Court decided to prosecute the divorce court by encouraging criminal prosecution, through the State Attorney's Office, despite the fact that his ex-wife was released from custody and even married about three weeks ago. After Gas returned to Israel last week and was arrested by the Israeli police, the rabbinical court decided to prosecute him for failure to comply with a judicial order for divorce.
About four years ago, C, Gaz's wife, published a post on social networks in which the rabbinical court's decision to distance himself from the public because of his stubborn refusal to give her a divorce. In an unprecedented move at that time, the tribunal decided to make "excommunication" and shame, to carry out shaming and publicize the fact that he did not provide his wife with a divorce. Following the publication, Gas was ousted from his position as Dr. of Physics at the University and will be ousted from his community in Raanana.
A few months after the publication, Gas escaped and fled from Israel in disguise and false identity, forging a passport and vowing authority. After about six months, he was spotted in Belgium by investigators of the Agonot wing under the direction of the rabbinical courts, and was arrested in collaboration between Interpol and the Israeli police. The International Department of the State Attorney's Office has asked for his extradition to be sentenced for offenses he had previously been convicted of for fleeing, as well as for prosecution for criminal offenses he had committed while leaving Israel illegally. His extradition was not requested for the mere refusal of the divorce.
At the same time, the composition of the rabbinical court in Haifa began with discussions about the marriage's validity. After lengthy discussions, testimonies, opinions and professional reviews - the three Judges, Rabbi Avraham Meir Three, Rabbi Daniel Edri and Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Hazan, decided in a very rare step "to cancel the couple's sanctification of gas and allow the woman out of her". Meaning: "Her status is a single bachelor's failure."
Haifa Rabbinical Court // Photo: Michelle Dot Com
The judgment released today states that "now that Gas has arrived in Israel and has been arrested by the Israeli police, the rabbinical court's legal counsel seeks to examine a ruling stating that there is no halachic objection to open criminal proceedings against him for his past refusal to grant a divorce. Offenses that he committed before the ruling of the court on Thursday in Tamuz 5790 (18.6.2018) which canceled their marriage, when he refused gas to the instructions of the regional court and the instructions of the great rabbinical court, which required his divorce. "
The Tribunal went on to write: "The refusals of the divorce and the mooring husbands will know that, even though the Tribunal, due to their stubborn refusal to find halakhic solutions in various ways to permit the woman out of her anchorage, the same sinners are not hired, and still for their reluctance and rebellion while inflicting misery on her wife - Will receive their sentence. "
In summary, the judgment states that "we allow the legal counsel for rabbinic jurisdiction to transfer Oded Gas's affairs to the State Attorney's Office, under the direction of the State Attorney's Office, for" prosecution and punishment for non-compliance with a judicial order for the rabbinical court to grant or obtain a divorce. "
Rabbi Eliyahu Maimon, director of the Rabbinical Courts Division, said: "The case of Oded Gas should serve as a daunting example for anyone who is in the process of recalcitrance and is thinking of running away. We have followed him around the world and arrested him in collaboration with the International Department of Justice, the Israeli Police and Interpol. "Gas will stand trial for both the criminal acts he committed and his disobedience to the rabbinical court and pay the price. He lost his family connection with his children and his routine from here on out, and now apparently even sat in jail."