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How do my husband and I start off the divorce process in Israel? We are both Jews,and Israeli citizens living in Israel ,but we married in a civil ceremony in Los Vegas,and registered our marriage at the Israeli Ministry of Interior.

At the rabbinical court which has exclusive extra-territorial jurisdiction over divorce between Jews,under Israeli law,even if they married abroad,in a civil ceremony,as you did. You will need a special kind of 'get' or religious divorce,to erase any doubt.If you both agree,a joint application can be made,which makes the process easier and quicker,as mutual consent is sufficient grounds for divorce,under Jewish law. If you do not both agree to divorce,then whoever wishes to do so will have to prove grounds,under Jewish law.