After four years:
Famous personality who refused divorce, gives in to ultimatum
After four years of refusing, a famous personality agreed to grant his wife a get after the court threatened financial and legal sanctions.
After four years of refusing, a famous personality agreed to grant his wife a get after the court threatened financial and legal sanctions.

Rabbinical courts report a 3.9% fall in divorces, tougher sanctions on get refusals, and progress in resolving cases of women unable to remarry.

Rabbinical courts pride themselves on helping women chained to recalcitrant husbands - but what about the men chained to recalcitrant wives?

Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef calls on rabbinical judges not to cave in to pressure from interest groups.

'We've solved hundreds of cases, without noise, without advertising. We are doing all we can but we do not own the Torah. G-d does.'

Judges rules that for next 21 days rabbinical court may not rule on efficacy of divorce granted to woman by comatose husband.

Prison alone is not enough for some recalcitrant husbands; conditions to be worsened, if a new bill passes.

The High Court said that sanctions placed on a woman who refused to accept a divorce from her husband were appropriate.

A Family Court judge tells yeshiva student he has a responsibility to find a job and pay the required child support to his five children.

Bnei Brak man charged of serious crimes who fled to US, leaving his wife an agunah, brought back in first extradition of its kind.


Disciplinary steps taken against officers after 'get refusenik' Shai Cohen jumped out a window at the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court.

Much harsher punishments are needed for individuals who refuse to grant their wives a Jewish divorce, said MK Eli Ben-Dahan

