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11 years after her husband tried to murder her: S. got a divorce and was released Israel today

2022-07-07T09:24:34.972Z


A little over a decade ago, the husband dragged S. into the closet with a knife in his hand and tried to murder her. Their 10-year-old son stopped him and his daughter called the police. After being released from prison, the husband disappeared. She got the divorce • With the help of the Yad LaIsha organization, she received the long-awaited divorce


A difficult docking case came to an end this week in the rabbinical court in Tel Aviv, when S., a resident of the United States in her 50s, received the long-awaited divorce, 10 years after she divorced her husband from a civilian husband, who harmed her and their children.

This is an Israeli couple who, after their marriage about 30 years ago, immigrated to the United States and had three children. While tearing her hair with the intention of harming her, their son, who was only 10 years old, heard his mother's cries, ran to her aid and pushed the father away, while their youngest daughter called the police.

Following the incident, the husband was imprisoned, and after his release, he left the United States and his traces disappeared, leaving S. Agunah. Its location.

In 2012, S. went to the U.S. Civil Court, requesting a civil divorce based on a history of severe violence, and indeed she was granted a civil divorce. At the same time, the husband reappeared in the U.S. While impersonating S., and she had to renew him from her discovery;

He stole her car from the parking lot and parked it at the train station, forcing her to search the vehicle for several months and even carry a fine for the parking period during that time in the train parking lot;

He even broke into S.'s house, despite a restraining order against him, while using violence and threatening her, when the police were called, the husband again fled and disappeared.

Over the years, S. applied to the Rabbinical Court in Israel several times, but in light of the fact that the two are residents of the United States, and in light of the fact that the husband was not located, the case was closed again and again. A new wire tip that indicated the husband's whereabouts in the country.

At this point, S. turned to the Yad LaIsha organization from the Or Torah Stone chain, which represents Agunot and those who refuse a divorce.

Although it was not known for certain that the husband was indeed in Israel or what his exact whereabouts were, Rebbetzin Deborah Brisk, who represents S. on behalf of Yad LaIsha, immediately approached the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court, reopened the divorce case and urgently requested a restraining order. Leaving the country against the husband At the same time, the husband was sent an invitation to a hearing at his mother's house, which lives in the central area, and to everyone's surprise, he did appear for the hearing, but vehemently refused to grant the divorce.

From here began a mask of nearly a year of hearings, in which the wife participated in a zoom from the United States, while the husband insisted. Last week, S. came to Israel for a hearing, at the request of the court, and told for the first time face to face The harsh descriptions and the presentation of pictures documenting the injuries inflicted by the husband on her body.

During a hearing this week, the husband used violence in the courtroom, threw a chair, shouted, raged and even insulted the judges.

In light of this, the head of the tribunal told him: "The behavior that is predicted in front of our eyes in the tribunal is enough to oblige a baguette."

When the husband realized this, he finally agreed to grant the long-awaited divorce, and released S. free, 10 years after a civil divorce.

Rebbetzin Deborah Brisk,

"This case is further evidence of the inconceivable reality in which many women find themselves, who manage after a long struggle to save themselves from a severe mask of violence, and in this case even from attempted murder, but then discover that the long husband's long hand continues to grip them and deprive them of freedom. Rebbetzin Deborah Brisk claims, "We will continue to fight to free those women, and any other woman who is imprisoned against her will in her marriage prison, by all means available to us."

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Source: israelhayom

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