The "Lebanese bridegroom" affair that stirred up Brooklyn - and ended in the Tel Aviv court | Israel Hayom

The case of the "Lebanese bridegroom" Ali Havila, which agitated the communities in Brooklyn and in Israel, was sealed in a resourceful operation by the head of the Jewish courts in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Zebadiah Cohen.

An ultra-Orthodox young woman from the Syrian community in New York married two years ago to Avrach, who studies at a yeshiva in Brooklyn.

His relatives did not come to the beach.

During the "Seven Blessings" ceremony, the bride discovered her new husband's passport and found that his name was not "Alia" as he introduced himself, but "Ali" and that he was a Lebanese Muslim, and she left him a short time later.

The guy who wanted to hold on to the marriage hurriedly turned to the court in New York and converted to the religion of Moses and Israel, and then came to Israel following his wife.

According to him, he made contact with his grandmother, his mother's mother, who told him that her mother - her great-grandmother - was a Jewess named Sarah Dewick who ran away from her family and married a Muslim, and therefore she is actually Jewish according to Halacha.

He also took a genetic test, which he says proved that he has Jewish genes.

The case stirred up Brooklyn,

This fact caused a serious problem: if the groom was a complete Muslim then the marriage is void according to Halacha and as if the couple had never married.

On the other hand, if the husband was Jewish at the time of the marriage, and even in doubt, then the woman is married according to the religion of Moses and Israel - and as long as she does not get a divorce, she is in need of a divorce.

The woman's family opened a case at the rabbinical court in Tel Aviv and presented to the court a letter from the rabbis of the Halabite community in the US stating that the groom was a complete Muslim at the time of the chupah and the kiddoshin is not valid, and asked the court in Tel Aviv to order the cancellation of the kiddoshin, while the man claimed that he heard from his mother who lives in the US. b And his grandmother lives in Lebanon because he is of Jewish origin.

At this point, Rabbi Zebadiah Cohen, head of the courts in Tel Aviv, entered the picture, providing "intensive care" to complicated cases in the courts in Tel Aviv, Gush Dan and the surrounding area. During the discussion, in the presence of the man, woman and family members, he made a telephone contact with the man's grandmother, who lives in the city of Zur in Lebanon, and she confirmed in a conversation with the court with the help of an interpreter that although she is a Muslim, she has a Jewish connection to her great-grandmother named Sarah Dewick, who was of Jewish origin and married a Muslim many years ago.

The Honorable Rabbi Zebadiah Cohen made it clear to the woman's family that due to doubts about the man's Jewishness, the Kiddushin cannot be annulled without a divorce, the court issued a restraining order against the man leaving the country, and after many efforts by the Honorable Rabbi, it was agreed upon to perform a sufficient divorce to free the The woman is bound by this marriage.

The woman was staying abroad with her family and the court made a divorce arrangement for the woman, and the restraining order against leaving the country against the man was canceled, and this sad affair came to an end.

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