Long-Distance Moroccan Couple Finalizes Divorce via Zoom Hearing

It all started with a conflict between the two lovers. The husband lives in Morocco and the wife in Israel. The husband has stopped financially supporting his wife, who has remained in Israel to live in the common apartment. The woman decides to break the vows with the Moroccan. She then initiates legal action before the family court but also before the rabbinical court to request a divorce. Her husband refuses to grant her the divorce on the grounds that she lives in Israel. The case will be transferred to the Aguna division of the rabbinical court administration. It has conducted a long series of activities with the husband, partly through the rabbinical court in Morocco.

But these steps have proven fruitless. After several weeks, the husband’s father arrives in Israel. The court seizes the opportunity and issues an order prohibiting him from leaving Israeli territory. It then summons him to hearings to try to determine if he was playing a role in his son’s refusal to divorce. After four hearings, the husband’s father will be released and return to Morocco. The court had just realized that he was not involved in his son’s refusal to divorce. After this episode, mediation between the two spouses was undertaken last week. While the husband and his wife managed to reach an agreement, the court in Morocco was not able to pronounce the divorce. The return to square one is then feared.

The Aguna division steps in. The case will then be entrusted to the rabbinical judge, a member of the Tel Aviv rabbinical court. He prepares the divorce by electronic means. The