MK Yael German (Yesh Atid) related to the phenomenon of recalcitrant husbands who refuse to give their wives a divorce despite imprisonment, “We will have no choice but to legislate that the Rabbinical Court grant the divorce against the will of the husband. You can imagine,” said German to Kol Beramah Radio, “the horrendous consequences of a situation where the woman is divorced by civil law, while still married according to the Torah.”

According to Torah Law, a divorce against the will of the husband is invalid, and all offspring of a woman who remarries while still married to her first husband are illegitimate (mamzerim), who may only be wed to others like them, ed.