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When can an Israeli court hearing a Hague Convention plea for the return of an abducted child order a report to examine whether he or she has ‘settled in' to the environment in Israel?

Only after a year has passed since the alleged act of abduction and the start of Hague Convention proceedings in Israel. The Israeli Supreme Court emphasized this in August 2010 concerning a child whose return was sought to Nevada, U.S.A. What matters is when the Hague file was opened, not when the court really started discussing the case, it said. The latter interpretation of the ‘opening’ of proceedings was wrong, contrary to the Hague Convention and would encourage abduction, it said.