Ultra-Orthodox mother of 7 arrested for refusing divorce

[azurnoir]

The woman, whose name has not been released and is being referred to by the initial G, and her husband separated and started divorce proceedings four years ago, but their case has only been active for the past four months. The two live in Jerusalem and have seven children, one of whom is disabled, Israeli news site Ynet reported.

Husbands refusing to grant a religious divorce, or get, are common, but the opposite does not normally occur as rabbis can circumvent a wife’s refusal and push through a divorce without her acceptance.

The rabbinical court has the power to levy fines or even order jail time for people who refuse to cooperate in divorces.

The police were acting on orders of the rabbinic court, which called for the woman’s arrest after she failed to appear in court. However, the Rackman Center for the Advancement of Women, which has taken on the woman’s case pro bono, claims that she missed the court date as she had just returned home after undergoing surgery and had sent medical confirmation to the court.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ultra-orthodox-mother-of-7-arrested-for-refusing-divorce/#ixzz3OvdVQW5o

[oberliner]

1. She was released on Thursday afternoon.

“Here we have a chain of failures that we have to learn from so something like this never happens to another woman in the State of Israel,” Swid said.

[King_David]

3. These Non Zionist ultra orthodox are out of control. nt

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. How many of them squat in the West Bank, dave?

[King_David]

6. Ultra Orthodox?

I'm sure you think your being smart here ?

LOL

[Israeli]

7. LOL is not an answer KD .....

Let me educate you .....

The Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the West Bank

October 2005 | Produced by Dror Etkes, Settlements Watch Director, Peace Now (Israel), and Lara Friedman, Government Relations Director, Americans for Peace Now

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How many ultra-Orthodox settlements are there? What are their key characteristics?

There are eight ultra-Orthodox settlements in the West Bank. They are (in order of size):

Beitar Illit

: Established in 1985, Beitar Illit is one of the largest settlements in the West Bank and is one of only three settlements classified by Israel as a "city." Beitar Illit is located close to the Green Line, west of the Palestinian city of Bethlehem.

Modi'in Illit

(also known as Kiryat Sefer): Established in 1996 (i.e., post-Oslo), Modi’in Illit is also one of the largest settlements in the West Bank and is in the process of being classified by Israel as a “city.” Modi'in Illit is located a few kilometers east of the Green Line and about halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It anchors the Modi'in Illit bloc – a population center that spreads across both sides of the Green Line.

Tel Zion (section of Kochav Ya'akov )

: Established in 1997 (i.e., post-Oslo), Tel Zion is officially a neighborhood of the settlement Kochav Ya'akov, which is located north of Jerusalem. However, for all intents and purposes Tel Zion functions and is treated as an autonomous settlement. Evidence of this can be found on the Benjamin Regional Council website, whose list of all settlements under the Council’s jurisdiction includes separate listings for Tel Zion and Kochav Ya’akov.
Similarly, Tel Zion maintains its own website and presents itself as its own settlement. According to its website, Tel Zion is planned eventually to be a town of over 35,000 people, living in more than 7000 housing units.

Immanuel

: Established in 1983, Immanuel is a medium-sized settlement located in the heart of the West Bank, about 10 kilometers southwest of the Palestinian town of Nablus. The longstanding lack of growth in Immanuel (where the annual growth rate is zero, and in some years has actually fallen) reflects the fact that ultra-Orthodox settlers are not driven by the same ideological zeal as the national religious settlers to live deep inside the West Bank, with its attendant dangers and diminished quality of life.

Matityahu

: Established in 1981, Matityahu is located to the immediate southwest of Modi’in Illit and close to the Green Line. It is a small settlement that has seen little growth in recent years, in all likelihood due to the rapid growth of neighboring Modi’in Illit.

Ma'ale Amos

: Established in 1981, Ma’ale Amos is a small settlement located deep inside the southern West Bank, along the Jordan Valley’s eastern ridge. Like the other ultra-Orthodox settlements located far from the Green Line, Ma’ale Amos has consistently failed to thrive as a settlement, with a population that has remained stagnant or shrinking.

Nahliel

: Established in 1984, Nahliel is a small settlement located in an isolated area northwest of the large Palestinian city of Ramallah. In Nahliel there is a growing group of very radical settlers who are on the fringes of the ultra-Orthodox society, making Nahliel atypical of the ultra-Orthodox settlements (a fact reflected in the settlements voting trends, discussed below). Nonetheless, Nahliel is similar to the other isolated ultra-Orthodox settlements in its overall failure to thrive and grow.

Asfar

: Established in 1983, Asfar is a small settlement located south of Ma’ale Amos, with only limited access via a single narrow, twisting road. Like the other ultra-Orthodox settlements located far from the Green Line, Asfar has failed to thrive and grow, and its population over the years has been stagnant or declining, once again reflecting the fact that the ultra-Orthodox do not generally share the religious-nationalist commitment to the settlement enterprise.

Are the ultra-Orthodox settlements expanding?

The two largest construction projects in the West Bank today are found in Modi’in Illit and Beitar Illit. These two projects alone represent more than 50% of the total current settlement construction taking place in the West Bank.

How many ultra-Orthodox are living today in the West Bank?

Today there are over 70,000 ultra-Orthodox living in the West Bank. Most of them are in the settlements listed above, with a few thousand spread between other settlements (like Ma'ale Adumim. Givat Ze'ev, and Kiryat Arba) where there is a mixed population. This means that the ultra-Orthodox today account for over 25% of all Israeli settlers.

Broken down by settlement, the ultra-Orthodox population is as follows (the first number is for year end 2003, the second for year end 2004, and the third, where available, is for June 30, 2005):

Beitar Illit – 22,926 / 25,020 / 28,500
Modi’in Illit – 24,290 / 27,301 / 28,500
Tel Zion – 3819 / 4377 / 4600
Immanuel – 2455 / 3054 / 2600
Mattityahu – 1365 / 1386 / not available
Ma’ale A’mos – 299 / 361 / not available
Nahliel – 248 / 340 / not available
Asfar – 232 / 327 / not available

All numbers are based on the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics.

Source : http://peacenow.org.il/eng/content/ultra-orthodox-jews-west-bank

[King_David]

8. Yes you right that's a much more precise answer,

To a tangential question irrelevant to the topic.

[Israeli]

9. So did you learn something today KD ? .....nt .

[King_David]

10. I learn something from you everyday

Today Rabah Geveret.

[riversedge]

2. Police handcuffed ‘G’ to her hospital bed for 20 hours; MK Aliza Lavie calls case ‘shocking’

[Fred Sanders]

4. This is different from Sharia law in terms of being state sanctioned....how?