In a cross-continental operation, using innovative modern technology, the regional rabbinical court in Netanya allowed a woman whose husband had fled to Cambodia to marry.
The husband abandoned his wife years ago without a divorce. He first immigrated to Thailand, where he met a local foreign woman, married her, received Thai citizenship - and had a foreign daughter with her.
However, it turns out that in Bangkok too he got entangled in debt and the gray market, and fled from there to Cambodia, while his original wife in Israel remained a prisoner.
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Members of the Netanya Rabbinical Court turned the world upside down until they were able to locate the man's residence in Cambodia. They contacted the Chabad emissary in Cambodia, Rabbi Ben-Zion Butman, who was able to locate the husband.
Information that reached Haredim 10 revealed that after lengthy negotiations with the woman in Israel, he agreed to give his wife a divorce, but did not agree to appear in Israel since he is wanted in the country.
The members of the Netanya Rabbinical Court - Rabbi Uriel Eliyahu, Rabbi Avraham Mayles and Rabbi Avraham Dov Zerbib - decided for the first time in the history of the courts to use WhatsApp, and through a video call they appointed the Chabad emissary in Cambodia as the court emissary, and a special team prepared the get in Cambodia.
The husband gave it to the emissary according to the procedures anchored in halakhic tradition for generations, and this week the agunah woman arrived at the rabbinical court in Netanya, received the get via a video call on WhatsApp - and was freed from the complex and tangled shackles of her agunah.
