A person who had refused to grant his wife a divorce for the previous two years on Sunday finally agreed to take action after spending a number of days in jail.
Yaron Atias, 39, initially from the coastal city of Ashdod, gave his wife Mazal Dadon Atias a get — the Hebrew time period for a divorce doc, which below Jewish spiritual legislation a husband should present his wife when a marriage is dissolved — in a rabbinical court docket in the northern metropolis of Haifa, Hebrew media reported.
Likud MK Yehudah Glick acted as mediator between the couple, and after the invoice of divorce was given he posted on Twitter “Mazal Tov” to the husband, the wife and their youngsters.
Glick had brought on an outcry by inviting Atias to the Knesset final month.
On Wednesday Atias was jailed for contempt of court docket after he was caught driving regardless of having had his license revoked as a punitive transfer till he agreed to provide his wife the invoice of divorce.
Likud MK Yehudah Glick in the Knesset, May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
A spokesperson for the rabbinic court docket informed Srugim information web site that the couple held intensive talks on the court docket on Friday, however Atias refused to provide the divorce. “This morning, Atias was accompanied by the Israeli Prison Service from Kishon police station to the rabbinical court in Haifa,” the spokesperson mentioned Sunday. “After dialogue, a divorce settlement was signed and a get was organized between the 2 events.”
In a step it hardly ever takes, three weeks in the past the court docket had permitted his and varied particulars to be made public and referred to as on the general public to ostracize him in order to stress him to grant the divorce sought by his wife, Mazal, who's presently dwelling along with her youngsters in the north of Israel.
Specifically, the court docket dominated individuals mustn't discuss to him or do enterprise with him, not host him, not go to him when he's sick, not grant him a public function in synagogue, not pray for him if he dies, not present him any respect, and keep away from him as a lot as potential.
Atias was invited to the Knesset final month by Glick, sparking anoutcry and main 10 feminine lawmakers to boycott a speech given by the MK. On listening to that Glick had invited Atias to his workplace, Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria referred to as on Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to have Atias faraway from the constructing instantly.
His presence in the Knesset constituted a “cheapening of the court docket’s choice and the steps it really helpful be taken throughout the framework of the battle in opposition to the phenomenon of get refusal,” she mentioned.
Kulanu party MK Rachel Azaria throughout a Knesset assembly, November 6, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
In February, Glick — identified for his marketing campaign to permit Jews to worship on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount however as comparatively liberal on many different points — informed a Knesset committee debating get refusal, “Rabbis never lead revolutions. In the best scenario, they’re dragged along… The public must lead a process by which people don’t get married without a prenuptial agreement rather than wait for the rabbis to decide.”
Rabbinical courts, which in Israel perform as household courts, can not pressure a man to provide his wife a get however they'll impose harsh punishments, together with jail time, on any events the judges decide are unjustly withholding a get and thus turning their wives into what is understood in Judaism as agunot, or “chained” ladies who can not remarry. Jewish legislation requires that a divorce be willingly granted by the husband, and accepted by the wife.
Mavoi Satum, a nonprofit group that gives authorized and emotional assist to ladies who've been refused a Jewish divorce, estimates that 1000's of Jewish ladies in Israel are presently agunot.
In May 2017, Zvia Gordetsky launched a starvation strike exterior the Knesset after being refused a spiritual invoice of divorce for 17 years (Courtesy)
Last 12 months, an Israeli girl denied a spiritual invoice of divorce for 17 years briefly went on starvation strike out of desperation.
Last month, the Knesset debated an invoice to increase the rabbinical courts’ oversight of Jewish divorce instances.