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Orders/Temporary Relief

Yes! You can take advantage of certain provisions in Israeli legislation which acknowledge and protect the rights of a foetus (unborn child),and ask the family court to grant an emergency ex-parte order to prevent your girlfriend from leaving the country. A hearing will be set afterwards,even if the ex-parte order is granted,and both parties will have the opportunity to put forward their case.

It is unlimited in time - but  can be cancelled any time  if you satisfy the Chief Bailiff that it should never  have been granted in the first place, or you pay the debt, or part of it, and give a suitable guarantee about the remainder, or provide alternative means of covering the debt.

It can be granted for a period of up to a year,for a debt, which is  not for unpaid maintenance.

Yes, open a plea for marital reconciliation at the rabbinical court, and within it apply for an order preventing him leaving Israel.

Not unless he is physically or verbally violent. An order banning the husband from the family  home will only be granted by a court if he is physically or verbally violent to you or the children, or their is a real risk or fear of violence on his part towards a member of the family. You cannot just force a separation between you and your husband, for your convenience,or to make life simpler, when there is no legal justification.

Regarding an adult, where the order was granted ex-parte (without the other side's presence,and even knowledge), you have a maximum of 14 days from the time it was given, until the hearing which must be set within this period, in the presence of both sides.

Their Israeli I.D. numbers, and any passport numbers, Israeli or foreign. You should have their full  names, in Hebrew and English, which should be listed on any official documentation you have.

Their Israeli I.D. numbers are listed on your own I.D. card, if you have one, on the attached piece of paper. The Ministry of Interior has records of any Israeli passport listed against the child's I.D. number,and may even have a foreign passport listed, though this is unlikely as anyone with Israeli citizenship is supposed to leave and enter Israel on an Israeli passport.

Yes, you can apply for an ex-parte order to stop the children being taken out of the country, if they there is an attempt to leave  one of Israel's borders with them. A temporary order can be obtained from the family court or a religious court almost immediately, on the basis of your claims only.

In theory, this should be unlikely as the Supreme Court has held that the constitutional right of freedom of movement can only be restricted regarding foreign residents, whose centre of life and source of income is abroad, in the most extreme cases. In practice, however, if you owe child maintenance, it may be possible for the mother to manipulate the system, open a file at the bailiff's, giving your Israeli I.D.Card, and conceal the fact that you live abroad, and apply and get such an order, within the framework of proceedings to recover the child maintenance debt.