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Case: HCJ 5596/20 Plonit v. High Rabbinic Court, Ashdod and Tiberius Rabbinic Courts
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In a series of decisions made in 2016, 2018, and 2019, Israeli rabbinic courts called into question the Jewishness of a woman who was suing for divorce. In an act of anger and revenge, the woman’s husband informed the rabbinic court that his wife and family were not really Jewish. On the basis of this allegation alone, the rabbinic court stopped the divorce proceeding and insisted on investigating the Jewish Roots of the woman and her family. Claiming that the mother’s documents from the Former Soviet Union had been modified (“forged”), the court discredited the Jewish status of the woman, her mother, her sister, and all the grandchildren.,
In 2020, CWJ asked the Supreme Court to declare void the decisions of the rabbinic courts with regard to the Jewish status of the woman and her family; and to hold that rabbinic courts have no jurisdiction to: a) inquire into, and revoke, the Jewish status of a woman who was in the middle of a contested divorce; nor does it have the jurisdiction to b) revoke the Jewish status of three generations of the woman’s family who are not parties to the divorce. We also asked the court to void the 2010 Jewish Roots Regulations in its entirety for violating the rules of natural justice since the rules are vague, retroactive, and unenforceable.
In 2021, the Court invokes a technicality to remand the case to rabbinic courts.