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Rabbis have refused a victim of domestic violence a divorce because they said they understood why her husband beat her and did not think it would happen again.
The woman’s husband was first jailed when he assaulted her after she said she wanted to leave him. Since then he has been charged with attacking her on two more occasions.
But a group of Jewish judges in Jerusalem have ruled the attack was not grounds for a gett — a religious divorce — because the husband had apologised and expressed remorse for what they described as “non-recurring” violence.
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