High Court overturns rabbinic ruling blocking money from adulterous woman

The High Court of rules in favor of a petition from a woman who was prevented receiving proceeds from an apartment she owned with her former husband due to her having cheated on him.

The decision overturns a ruling of the rabbinic Beit Din Hagadol, which had said she was not entitled to any money from the sale of the apartment which she had co-owned with her husband for 20 years before their divorce.

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