We represented a mother of several children, an Israeli citizen with an additional nationality, in respect of whom it was claimed that she fled from the country in the middle of the night with her children, despite a stay of exit order against the children. After long deliberations before the Rabbinical Courts, we were able to prove that my client’s leaving with the children was done legally and that she had an honest and truthful fear for their safety, in light of suspicions of the father hurting the children. The Rabbinical Court accepted our claims, so that according to the Jewish Law, on which we based our claims, as well as the Civil Law, in fact during their leaving of Israel, there was no impediment for their exiting from the country and thus the counterparty’s arguments of “child abduction” and for returning of them were denied.
