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Can I do anything to get my five year old child back to the Philippines? I am a Philippino citizen in the Philippines , who gave birth to a child there, from my Israeli boyfriend,who I met when I lived in Israel. The father tricked me, and took our son back to Israel when he was two and a half, promising to arrange papers so that I could join them legally,but since then has refused to help me come to Israel, or to send back my child to the Philippines.

Your situation is complicated and difficult. You cannot employ fast-track Hague Convention child abduction proceedings to get your child back because the Philippines is not a party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction, although Israel is, and even if they were, it would be too late to use this mechanism, as there is a time limit of a year for acting from the time of the alleged act of abduction ,when your son was retained overseas against your will.
 
You have two options for filing at the family court in Israel – one for a Habeas Corpus order to order your child back, non-Hague child convention proceedings. The other option, or if this fails, is to file for custody and relocation. Even if the child's father acted wrongly,and retained your child without your consent, there is no guarantee that the court would order his return,after such a long time, and would only do so if it was convinced that it would be "in his good", and after receiving reports and recommendations from professionals.