After repeated claims by the so-called “impostor groom from Lebanon”, who is Ali Havilia because he is a Jew because he is a descendant of Jews, this week Havilia appeared before the rabbinical court in an attempt to prove his Jewishness.
From information I received ‘Shabbat Square’ It appears that the groom claimed before the court that he was a Jew and that he was a descendant of Judaism. In addition, he claimed that after the storm-provoking wedding, he converted to Judaism.
Kikar was also informed by a source close to the details that the court offered the groom to deport his wife to Humra, in case he was a Jew. Havilia, for his part, said he refused to divorce because he claimed he had always been a Jew and had only converted to Judaism.
He later claimed that his bride had agreed to remain married to him if he did prove that he was Jewish – contrary to her family’s position.
The court offered Havila two options that would solve halakhic problems: the first option, to divorce his wife as he was initially offered. The second option offered to him, assuming that the bride would indeed agree to be married to him – to remarry his wife so that the marriage would take place for sure.
As you may recall, a few months ago the Jewish world was in turmoil after it became clear that a few weeks after a wedding held between an ultra-Orthodox couple from the United States, it became clear that the groom was actually a Muslim from Lebanon.
It was also reported that the bride came from a well-known ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn, New York, who married a young ultra-Orthodox man who had previously studied at a well-known Hasidic yeshiva in the United States. The marriage took place in a local hall in Cheshvan.
It is a community where one is very careful about family matters and does not even marry a stranger, but the groom’s story did not arouse any suspicion, even though he did not keep in touch with his family – who did not even reach his marriage. Those who accompanied him to the canopy were the rabbi and rebbetzin from the community.