Raanan Ben-Zur, ynetnews.com
An Israeli woman who married an Arab and lived with him in Gaza returned to Israel through the Erez border crossing on Tuesday along with her four children.
The woman, 27, originally form Ashdod, met the Arab-Israeli man a few years ago, and after a while the couple moved to Egypt.
About a year ago, after the woman gave birth to her fourth baby, the couple moved to Rafah, a town located in the southern part of the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave. Shortly thereafter she began complaining to her sisters in Israel of her husband’s abusive behavior, which included physical violence.
Her family turned to the Yad L?Achim organization, which helps rescue Israeli women from “hostile Arab villages” in the Palestinian Authority and sets them up in safe houses around the country, “where they can build new lives for themselves.”
On Tuesday morning she took advantage of the fact that her husband was out of the house, gathered her children and took a cab to the Erez crossing.
During the cab ride her husband phoned her and threatened to kill her if she leaves him. The woman’s sister and brother-in-law greeted her on the Israeli side of the border.
She was interrogated at the Sderot police station and then taken to a safe house.
THE LADY IS JEWISH BUT NOT HER HUSBAND
is the lady an israeli arab or JEWISH?
This may come as a surprise but you never know….strange things can happen in life and affect people in different ways.I do not believe in the self-righteous,holier-than-thou attitude that so often reflects the frum community who is soooo sure if they do “the right thing”,everything with kids will turn out “just right”.CV’ you never know….this is an unfortunate event and we should always pray for those,who for whatever reason, did such things.People change and do teshuva and go on….stop with the judgmental responses.CV’ you never know.Hashem sees our approach too and the way we treat our fellow man and judge… Read more »
Where’d you learn to spell Or type ?
Look, in regards to most of the comments posted
so far I want to say: Chad vsholom we should
never hear of these things, but imagine a friend of
yours or someone very close to you married
an Arab and now came back instead of ctitisizing
acknowledge that she picked her chilren
up and walked away. Yes it wad wrong in firsplace
but at least she came bakx
they become vulnerable to men who treat them royally, promise them the world….till reality sets in, by then they are trapped in the marriage.
http://www.yadlachimusa.org.il/
what is the contact information for Yad L’achim if I want to donate to them?
what great work, that is amazing, to give someone a new lease on their life. Wishing hatzlacha and all brochos to the victims and to the Yad L’achim workers. Thats not easy work.
Aren’t there enough nice, kind Jewish guys in Israel for these women? How do they get themselves in these situations?