get refuser who was jailed for 18 years was sentenced to another 15 months by a Yerushalayim court for persisting in his refusal.

The decision to send him back behind bars was based on a 2016 decision of the attorney general that defying a bais din’s order to divorce one’s wife is a criminal offense.

The state bais din rejects a private bais din’s spurious decision that the marriage was void. Paradoxically, feminist organizations helping the wife do accept the private bais din’s opinion and are against the husband returning to jail.