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Will a woman who has been intimately involved with a married man for years, entertains and feeds him almost daily in her home,goes out with him, and gets financial suppport from him, be regarded as his "common-law wife", in Israeli law, if, every night, he returns to sleep with his wife, at their marital home?

Most probably not! The vital element of "family life" or cohabitation would appear to be missing for her to meet the legal requirements of a common-law wife, or cohabitee, under Israeli law. The Supreme Court has held that without this the woman is merely a "mistress".