This article discusses the way that feminist activists in Israel have turned get refusal—a religious “right” embraced by Israeli rabbinic courts --into a civil “wrong” that entitles women to relief in the form of damages. The author describes difficulties that have arisen from Israel's relegation of marriage and divorce law to the State’s rabbinic court and the avant-garde steps currently being taken to rebalance the judicial integrity of Israeli divorce law by filing “tort” cases in Israeli family court. 

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