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Where should I get divorced if I am Israeli, and Jewish, my spouse is a non-Jewish foreigner, and we married in a civil ceremony in Cyprus,but never lived there, settling in Israel immediately after the wedding?

In Israel - by the civil process of dissolution of marriage. Where non-Cypriot nationals get married in a civil wedding in Cyprus, but they do not actuallly live there, the family court there will not gain jurisdiction over proceedings to end the marriage as the residency requirements are not met. Accordingly, if one or both of you live in Israel, you can end your marriage in Israel, even though you married in Cyprus, and very quickly, too, if there is mutual consent. Otherwise, if the divorce is contested, you will need to prove grounds under Cypriot divorce law, and provide a legal opinion of an expert on this, within the dissolution of marriage proceedings that take place in Israel.