Yaron Attias
Yaron Attias, who refused for the past two years to give his wife a Jewish religious bill of divorce, on Sunday finally granted his wife, Mazal, the divorce in the rabbinical court in Haifa.
Last week, Attias was sent to prison for driving after the court confiscated his driver’s license. He was brought from prison to court on Sunday, where the divorce agreement was signed. Matters of marriage and divorce among Jews in Israel are governed by Jewish religious law, halakha, which require a bill of divorce issued by the husband for a divorce to take effect.
Knesset member Yehudah Glick (Likud) has been working in recent weeks to resolve the matter, and even invited Attias to the Knesset for a meeting, a move that Glick was criticized for by fellow legislators, both male and female. Through Glick’s mediation efforts, however, substantial progress on the case was made. After the agreement was signed Sunday, Glick tweeted congratulations to Attias and his now ex-wife and their children.
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