The sentence is unprecedented.
To force an Australian national living in Israel to pay alimony, the Israeli justice system prohibited him from leaving the country until December 31, 9999, reports the British daily The Guardian.
A deadline set arbitrarily, "as far as possible that we can enter in the computer system of the Israeli justice system", explains an article from Ouest France which relays the Australian media
news.com.au.
In 2013, the court sentenced the father of two children, separated from his ex-wife, to pay 5,000 shekels (1,400 €) per month and per child until they come of age.
Or the equivalent of two million euros in alimony.
The article does not specify whether he has already paid certain pensions, or whether justice requires that he pay the entire sum at once to lift the order of suspension of exit.
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Noam Huppert, a 44-year-old analytical chemist working for a pharmaceutical company, joined his Israeli wife and two children in 2012. A year later, she filed for divorce.
The Israeli court then issues a stay-out order against him because of his “future debt”.
He cannot leave the territory either for work or for vacations.
A "persecution" of the Israeli justice system
"Since 2013, I have been locked up in Israel," Huppert laments in Australian media news.com.au, adding that he now agrees to tell his story "to help" other expatriates who may suffer the same "persecution. Of the Israeli justice system, "only because they are married to Israeli women."
In its travel advice to Israel, the US State Department includes a warning about Israel's civil and religious courts, which "actively exercise their authority to prohibit certain people, including non-residents, from leaving the country. countries until debts or other legal claims against them are resolved ”.
