The Rabbinical District Court in Petach Tikva recently imposed a precedent-setting measure on a husband who refused to give a divorce to his wife despite a court ruling.
After the husband refused in two hearings to comply with the verdict, the panel's judges ruled during the second hearing that the husband would be subject to statutory sanctions, even though the woman never filed a formal request for sanctions. The judges ruled that the filing of an official request for sanctions is not required in the language of the law, because the sanctions are a tool for the court to enforce its rulings and not a "right" granted to the woman that she can use.