The mother was interrogated due to allegations of violence against her children - the court left them in custody with her

As part of a divorce dispute between a husband and wife from the South, allegations have been made against the mother that she has used violence against her children.

Despite her police investigation, the court left her son in custody.

According to the father, the rabbinical court ruled against him following the ties of his ex-wife in the local council where they lived

Yaki Adamkar

16/06/2022

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 6:30 p.m.

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The Rabbinical Court in Tel Aviv (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel, Flash 90)

Divorce disputes going on in the rabbinical courts in Israel are many, and if not for one disturbing mystery the following story would have seemed one of them.

How is it that the findings of a police investigation into allegations of mother violence from the south against her children, a report authored by the Center for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, a false polygraph examination and family closeness to a councilor in the south are not treated by the rabbinical court? Despite their desire to move in with their father?

These are couples who married 16 years ago, during their marriage they had three children and then the relationship between them ran aground, and they divorced 12 years later.

But since then the husband has demanded a divorce from his wife, and to this day, the two are in an ongoing dispute in which there is a struggle over child custody, time spent with the father and child support.

As part of the divorce dispute between the parties, the ex-husband and ex-wife leveled mutual accusations.

The procedure was introduced by the welfare department of the local council where they lived.

The goal was to give a proper response to the three children.

The father, who claimed that the mother was in working contact with the council's welfare department, requested that the case be transferred to an objective welfare department examination.

His feeling was probably justified, because the external social worker Erez Bar-Shalom discovered allegations of violence on the part of the mother at the end of the children's interrogation.

He passed the test results to the police, noting in a report that the children were supposed to be cared for by the council's welfare department in the southern region where they live, but the local social worker admitted to him that she was in contact with the family, ie the mother, which prevented her from making decisions In the file.

Following Bar Shalom's findings, the police summoned the mother, interrogated her and she was found to be a liar as part of a polygraph examination.

Despite these findings, the rabbinical court in Tel Aviv ruled to leave the minor with his mother, while the older daughters who begged to move to the father's house, he left in a boarding school out of necessity.

A year ago, attorney Moshe Ossedcher, who represented the father, approached the State Attorney's Office, describing the sequence of events and urging the State Attorney's Office to comment on the findings of the police investigation and to file an indictment against the mother for the violence she inflicted on her children.

The father's application for the appointment of a guardian for the minors was also rejected by the rabbinical court, ignoring the social worker's report stating that the mother was dangerous to the children.

"It became clear in the court that the person who poses a danger to the children is the father himself and not the mother," the judges ruled.

According to the father, the mother has a family connection with the head of the local council where the family lived and the rabbi of the council, and it is not inconceivable that the local welfare authorities grant her unique conditions.

Rabbinical Court: "Father's claims repeatedly rejected"

The State Attorney's Office responded: "This is a case that has been examined in depth and includes, among other things, the welfare services' reference from which it appears that the relationship in this family is complex. Without going into the contents of the reports, we note that the suspect Decide whether to prosecute or close the case. "

The local council responded: "We note that the case is recognized, handled and accompanied by a multi-professional team thoroughly before the legal and district inspectors of the Ministry of Welfare. The head of the authority is not involved in the case at all and any claim in this matter is completely false."

The courts responded: "The man presented his full arguments and complaints to all possible appellate courts and his words were repeatedly rejected - in an appeal to the Jerusalem High Court of Appeals, in an appeal to the Supreme Court, also in the Judges 'and Judges' Complaints Commission. When he presents a one-sided picture as part of a divorce dispute between two spouses. "

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