Anti-assimilation group challenges decision to grant full custody of Israeli Jewish girl to her Arab grandmother, despite mother’s protests.
An anti-assimilation group in Israel says it has challenged a decision issued by a state Islamic court in Israel which awarded full custody of a Jewish girl to her Arab grandmother, despite the objections of the girl’s mother.
According to the Yad L’Achim organization – which works to counter efforts to missionize Jews in Israel and to combat assimilation – a state Sharia court which serves Israel’s Muslim minority population awarded custody of a two-year-old Israeli girl, named Yasmin, to her Arab grandmother.
Eight years ago, Yad L’Achim officials say, the girl’s grandmother moved to Israel, along with her three children, after the head of the household had passed away.
The family moved to a mixed city with a significant Arab population. The family had a difficult time adjusting, and found itself in dire financial straits. One of the three children soon dropped out of school, and eventually married a local Arab man.
Two years ago, the young woman, gave birth to a daughter, Yasmin, who was raised at first by her Jewish grandmother.
After her Jewish grandmother died, however, the young woman’s Arab husband urged her to let his mother care for Yasmin. The young woman agreed, and her mother-in-law cared for Yasmin while she could recover from the loss of her mother.
Yasmin’s father was arrested and placed in prison shortly thereafter for property crimes, at which point his mother – Yasmin’s Arab grandmother – turned to a Sharia court to demand she be awarded full custody of Yasmin.
The court accepted the Arab grandmother’s request, and passed the case on to the social welfare ministry – all without first gaining the permission of Yasmin’s mother – a violation of family law, Yad L’Achim claims.
The ministry accepted the Sharia court’s recommendation to grant custody, and awarded full custody to Yasmin’s Arab grandmother for half a year.
At the end of the six-month period, the Sharia court reached out to the social welfare ministry again, which extended the grandmother’s custody of Yasmin for another six months, and issued a formal recommendation to award her with permanent custody.
The Sharia court adopted the recommendation, and Yasmin was placed in her grandmother’s custody permanently.
At the end of the additional half a year, during which time Yasmin’s mother left her Arab husband and sought to recover custody of her daughter, whom she wished to raise in a Jewish household.
She asked her mother-in-law to return Yasmin to her, but was presented with an official document signed by the Sharia court stating that the child was to remain with her Arab grandmother until she was fully grown.
Yasmin’s mother then turned to Yad L’Achim for assistance in recovering custody of her daughter. Lawyers for the group filed a petition in family court requesting that the Sharia court’s decision be overturned, claiming that the ruling had been made without properly consulting Yasmin’s mother.
“We won’t rest until the baby is returned to the hands of her Jewish mother,” Yad L’Achim said in a statement. “It is heartbreaking to see a child cry bitterly every time her mother has to return her to her grandmother after one of their infrequent visits together.”
“If necessary, we will go to the Supreme Court, and even bring the masses out into the street to protest against the stealing of a Jewish child from her mother.”
@ david melech:
Sharia Court = Muslims NOT Christians.
@ david melech:
That’s got nothing to do with it. I ask YOU…how much Jewishness has any 2 year old child, brought up even in a Jewish home, eating kosher food that it knows nothing about yet, …” precious little,-if any at all-, mostly concentrating on learning a few consecutive words, and trying to walk a dozen steps without holding on to anything. The mother is Jewish, and the grandmother’s care was temporary and for convenience at the time. . When she unexpectedly died, the child, should have automatically gone back to the mother, without all this sharia nonsense.
Arabs do what Arabs do. So they gladly scratched their flea ridden whiskers for a few minutes-if that- and handed her to the Arab. instead of the proper procedure….which was that the Jewish child belongs to the care of the Jewish mother, who was NOT ruled unfit…. And if she had been, then the JEWISH Social Service Ministry should naturally taken the child.
But all this is twaddle, the outrageous CRIME is that this was endorsed by a Jewish Government Ministry….. who’s primary DUTY it is to care and protect children, unfortunate mothers or families.
The sharia court allowed the child to remain under the grandmothers care as had been allowed by the mother. Seems the grandmother had taken care of the child longer than the mother had.
Have any of the above three read had access to the ministries ruling?
How much Jewishness has both the mother and child had, being involved in an Arab environment? Is this an Arab Christian or muzzy family?
@ Edgar G.:
I think you make some VERY valid points! So, if a Jewish child can be given to an Arab grandmother against the will of the Jewish mother – and in ISRAEL, hello!! – what rotten “social ministry” decision will be next?!? I can understand this happening in the USA, Canada or any Western European country, but ISRAEL?!? The world is upside down and getting more insane by the moment!!
The Headline does not tell the story. It’s very misleading. The sharia court did what Arabs always do, but the Ministry of Social Welfare, which is an ISRAELI Ministry of Government, even though they had all the facts of the Jewish mother and the Jewish child, ignored this, and allowed the sharia court decision to go prevail.
THIS is the disgusting part. There is much that is repulsive and reprehensible about the behaviour of certain Israeli sectors, and this is one of them. In another 7=8 years she’ll be smuggled to another Arab country and married off to a smelly old goat.
Another disgusting thing is turning a Homeric blind eye to the mass destruction and desecration on the Temple Mount for many years.
Another glaring enablement is ignoring the tens of thousands of illegal Arab buildings all over the country, just watching whilst they are being illegally built without permission…and shanty towns in Area C, with encouragement and material from our enemies the Jew hating EU., installed by infiltrating Arab squatters from Areas A and B.
The scum apply to our Supreme Court, and because they are Arabs, our supreme nitwits are always eager and ready to delay or reverse a government decision.
Sharia court in Isrel?!