Rabbinical court removes children from mother after she 'signs them up for mixed-gender swimming classes'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/rabbinical-jewish-court-mother-children-removed-observant-swimming-lessons-israel-a9174901.html

A rabbinical court in Israel has taken two children from the care of their mother after claims she was not properly complying with observant Jewish practices.

The court in the city of Haifa has granted the father custody despite the fact he has formerly been convicted of violent crimes.

The mother has been barred from seeing her children and is now only allowed to see them in a specific facility.

She told Israeli newspaper Haaretz getting her divorce was dependant on signing a contract which linked child custody to following an observant way of life.