An Israeli father of three petitions the Port Elizabeth High Court in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to force his wife to return his three daughters to Israel.
The couple has been married nine years, according to South Africa’s The Herald newspaper. They were vacationing in South Africa late last month when the wife, a native South African who converted to Judaism and obtained Israeli citizenship when the two married, surprised her husband with a demand for divorce, backed by a sherrif, while they were at a shopping mall in Port Elizabeth.
She refuses to allow her daughters, aged three, five and eight, to return with him to their home in Ashkelon, citing the conflicts with Gaza in recent years.
Israel’s deputy state attorney in the Justice Ministry’s Department of International Affairs, Galit Greenberg, has filed papers in support of the husband’s case with the South African court, noting that similar divorce-related abductions of children on the basis of the security situation in Israel have been rejected by courts in multiple nations.
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