Get refuser grants divorce after being arrested at coronavirus checkpoint
"The get has become a halachically endorsed tool that can be abused to extort, control and threaten a spouse," said Director of Yad La'isha.
An Israeli police officer and an Israeli soldier at a temporary "checkpoint" in Jerusalem, to check people are not disobeying the governments orders on a partial lockdown, in order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus on March 31, 2020.(photo credit: NATI SHOCHAT/FLASH 90)ByEVE YOUNG