Unprecedented: The woman was denied a divorce - while her husband was married to another woman Israel today

When Y. married to choose her heart and became his third wife, she did not imagine that after 16 years she would find herself denied a divorce while her husband would already be married to the fourth wife.

The story begins, as mentioned, 16 years ago, when the years in the US brought and gave birth to two children. After many years of a relationship that included mental, economic and sexual violence, in December 2018 Y. decided to end the marriage. , Which was followed by a U.S. court in a rare move issuing a restraining order against the father from his children.

A month later, the husband applied to a private court, where he filed for divorce and received permission to marry, without him or the court updating Y. on the matter.

In November 2019, I learned that her husband had married another woman, the fourth in number, as well as the matter of depositing the divorce.

When she applied to the father of the tribunal for him to hand over the divorce to her, she surprisingly encountered his refusal, after claiming that the divorce was invalid because the husband was heard talking about having returned it voluntarily to grant it.

From here, Y. began a nearly two-year journey between various courts in the United States in an attempt to obtain the long-awaited divorce, without success. While he remained stubborn in refusing to grant a divorce to Y. Of fifty thousand dollars.

The Yad LaIsha organization from the Or Torah Stone network, which began representing Y. in January last year, understood that Y.'s only chance of breaking free from the shackles of her marriage would be if the husband came to Israel and the matter was clarified with the rabbinical court. Authority to impose civil sanctions Indeed, after a lengthy follow-up, about six months ago they discovered in the organization that the husband had arrived in Israel, and hurried to apply to the Rabbinical Court in Tel Aviv to impose a restraining order on him.

During the hearings in Israel, the husband continued to insist on granting the divorce, claiming that Y. prevented him from seeing his children, and that only after he was allowed to return to New York and see his children, would he submit the divorce to the court there.

After it was clarified that the wife is not the one who prevents the meetings, the father of the court clarified to the husband that in light of this and in light of his marriage to a fourth wife, it is clear to all that he is not interested in his marriage to God and should grant her a divorce.

When the husband realized that the court was about to impose a divorce charge on him, he agreed this week to grant the long-awaited divorce and Y. was released.

"Helping those in need"

"Once again, it has been proven that Yad LaIsha helps women who are denied a divorce not only from Israel but from all over the world," notes Dina Reichik, an attorney and claims a rabbi representing Y. on behalf of Yad LaIsha. In his deeds and anchoring Y., and that another woman won a divorce and was set free. "