The husband seemed to have disappeared without a trace until a bill in his name suddenly found its way to the woman's home from Beersheba's Soroka Hospital.
By MIRIAM BULWAR DAVID-HAY (TRANSLATED)
The Netanya Rabbinical Court recently took the unusual step of hiring a firm of private detectives recently to track down a husband who disappeared 15 years ago, leaving his estranged wife an aguna ("chained"), reports www.mynet.co.il. And the rabbinate's efforts proved successful. The husband was eventually found in Beersheba, from where, with the help of police, he was brought back to Netanya to give the woman a divorce.
According to the report, the couple married 30 years ago and had one daughter, but separated after seven years of marriage. Eight years after separating - 15 years ago - the wife applied to the Netanya Rabbinical Court for a divorce, and even though the husband agreed, he vanished before the divorce was granted. This left the woman an aguna, unable by Jewish law to remarry or to have legitimate children.
The report said the husband seemed to have disappeared without a trace until a bill in his name suddenly found its way to the woman's home from Beersheba's Soroka Hospital. The Netanya rabbinate decided to hire a firm of private detectives to seek the man out in the southern city, and "after great efforts," he was found working at a local newspaper kiosk. The rabbinate obtained a warrant and police arrested the man, bringing him to the Netanya Rabbinical Court the following day, where the long-overdue divorce was officially carried out and the woman was set free.
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