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Fathers' rights movement in Israel

definition, context history ala usa entry outline >> 1 History 2 Topics 2.1 Gender Bias 2.1.1 Cultural 2.1.2 Legal 2.2 Shared Parenting 2.3 Visitation 2.4 Maternal Gatekeeping ?? 2.5 Parental alienation 2.6 Adoption 2.7 Scams & Fraud 2.8 laws 2.8.1 Family courts 2.8.2 Religious family courts - rabbinical "beit din" 3 Awareness 4 Advocacy 5 Media portrayals 6 See also 7 References In comparison with feminist women's organizations which are well established and funded, Israel father's and men's rights groups and media presence have been poor, small and sporadic.

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Israel
==Israel==

Israel
For a developed country with democratic political institutions, the Israeli society is notable for its high birth rate and natalist tendency, for parallel religious family court systems in the Judiciary of Israel and for its diverse origins and ideologies including radical feminism and orthodox fundamentalism. Although the majority religion Judaism has a patriarchal tradition, mothers enjoy increasing legislated advantages promoted by the Knesset |Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality. In comparison to the well funded feminist establishment, fathers' and men's rights groups, political efforts and media have been poor, small and sporadic.

Fathers' rights activists have unsuccessfully run in Knesset elections both in their own abortive parties such as Man's Rights in the Family Party and in joint lists. Many protest vigils, demonstrations and marches against alleged discriminatory divorce laws and gender biased family court practices. In 2014 an appeal to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights resulted in a UN condemnation of Israel for discrimination against divorced fathers. Several civil lawsuits in the USA courts have been filed by Israeli fathers against Israeli family justice and social services officials and women's organizations alleging human rights violations.

In particular, Israeli fathers' rights activists have protested the Tender Years' Clause (which in 2016 was slightly amended in Knesset) and family court practice to award custody of children to the mother in all but exceptional cases.

Additional calls for reform include: the high rates of alimony and child support imposed regardless of economic capability; the loss of freedom of movement by the liberal use of no-exit court orders prohibiting fathers (including fathers not in arrears) from leaving the country unless guaranteeing all future child support by deposit of money or sureties; gender biased prevention of domestic violence laws that are misused by divorcing women to evict fathers from their homes and disconnect them from their children -- along side women's legal exemption from prosecution for filing false accusations; the promotion of parental alienation, and; the high rate of fathers forced to see their children in supervised visitation "contact centers" due to false claims of child abuse.

On child custody law, in 2005 the Ministry of Justice appointed Schnitt Commission, chaired by Professor Dan Schnitt. In 2008, its majority report recommended that shared custody be the default arrangement. On January 19, 2012, then Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman announced that he accepted the Schnitt Commission's finding. A weakened amendment was enacted in 2016. Court adoption and implementation is reportedly rare in Spring 2017.

Similarly child support law was amended in November 2014 following the recommendation of the Shiffman Commission to consider the income of both parents. A few court rulings have divided child support between both parents, but the religious rabbinical courts oppose this non-traditional rule.

In the Spring of 2017 three social protest activists and organizers Lori Shem Tov, Moti Leybel and Att. Zvi Zer were detained and put on an ongoing trial. The authorities called it the "terror network", "cyber gang" trial; alternatively their supporters call it the Uzi Meshulum Affair #2. This was part of a wave of arrests and closure of blogs critical of Israel's family justice and social services system. Among their criticism of the state are the high incidence of removal of children from their homes and disconnecting children form their natural biological parents in favor of institutional, foster and adoptive care.