The Ministry of the Interior refused to recognize the woman as a widow and she turned to the Rabbinical Court. • After collecting unusual and comprehensive evidence, the authorities were ordered to change her bizarre legal situation.
The plane that crashed
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The rabbinical court in Petah Tikva discussed a completely bizarre case several months ago, in which it will examine whether a woman whose husband perished in a plane crash 25 years ago is an aguna, following a request from the Ministry of the Interior.
This is a man who was on his way from Bucharest to Brussels on a plane of the Romanian company Tarum on March 31, 1995. Two minutes after takeoff, the plane went into a nose dive and crashed.
All 60 passengers and crew on board were killed in the crash.
Last June, the woman arrived at the rabbinical court with an unusual request.
"My husband was killed 25 years ago in a plane crash. We brought him for burial in the country after four days, I have a burial society certificate and certificates that he passed away, and the Interior Ministry does not want to recognize me as a widow because I do not have the consignment certificate. And I have no way of achieving that. "
In response to questions from the judges, the woman said that the two married in 1977 and had three children.
He was on the line between Budapest and Brussels quite a bit because he owned a textile business.
The woman sought permission to remarry, with evidence in her possession: the Romanian government and the airline officially announced that her husband had been killed and the airline's insurance company had paid compensation to the widow.
In addition, it was made clear to the court that the relationship between the two was perfectly normal, and it does not make sense that if he were alive he would not have informed it or would not have known it.
The court summoned Yaakov Berger, head of a burial society in Belgium, to testify via video, who was sent to identify the body.
He testified in a not-so-simple testimony that he identified a scar from Y., the husband, and other means of identification.
In addition, he was identified by his location on the flight, his passport and the tassel he wore, which identifies him as a Jew - the only one on the flight.
In addition, an aviation disaster investigator was summoned who examined the accident report and determined that "there is no chance that any of the occupants of the plane will survive this crash, and it does not matter what the location of the occupant was."
In summary, the court ruled last October that there was no doubt that Y. was on board the plane at the time of the crash, and suffice it to say that he was indeed among those who perished.
After a long halakhic hearing, the judges ruled that the applicant was a widow and allowed to marry.
"Her personal status from 'married' to 'widowed' must be corrected in all the authorities."