Rabbinate delays divorce of a woman it helped wed but now says may not be Jewish

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbinate-delays-divorce-of-a-woman-it-helped-wed-but-now-says-may-not-be-jewish/

In its ruling from December 26, the High Court of Justice ordered the Rabbinical Court of Ashkelon and the Chief Rabbinate to stop investigating the woman’s Jewishness and promptly dissolve her marriage.

The case of the woman, who asked that her name be withheld citing privacy issues, is part of a growing tendency on the part of rabbinical courts, which in Israel act as family courts and are therefore under the High Court’s authority, to conduct background checks whose scope exceeds the issues brought before them, and which critics say are invasive and inappropriate.