My wife is originally from Dublin but we have spent all our married life in Israel. We are having serious marital problems. She went over for a fortnight’s holiday but now three months have passed and she and the children are still in Ireland. I can get no reply from her parents’ home and her sister slammed the phone when I rang . She told me that my wife and the children were not coming back to Israel. What can I do to get my children back ?
By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 02 June, 2022Both Ireland and Israel are bound by the 1980 Hague Convention of the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction, so an application can be made under it for the children’s return. Their continued presence in Ireland against their father’s will is regarded as wrongful retention, and an act of abduction under the convention, giving grounds for an application for their return to Israel, the country of their habitual residence.