Fathers
4 Justice Embraces Love for Israel Relief Fund Plan to Rescue
Collapsed Child Welfare System
By
Herb Brandon
Israel News Agency
Jerusalem,
Israel ---- June 10, 2011 .... Fathers 4 Justice Israel has endorsed
The Love for Israel Relief Fund proposal for http://love4israel.org/admin/pdf/Proposal.pdf
calling for outsourced child welfare services in Israel. According
to the proposal, outsourcing services saved the welfare system
in Illinois and would also rescue Israel's failed welfare system.
The Israel state-run infrastructure has reached a boiling point
after government-employed social workers went on strike in March
2011 and returned to work only to be dragged before the UN Human
Rights Counsel on human rights violations which have been mounting
against them for years.
The
Love for Israel Relief Fund decided to take immediate action after
the Jerusalem Post reported on 2 June 2011 that a group
of Israel fathers appealed to the UN with allegations including,
"institutionalized torture and denial of civil rights"
against Israel's Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Welfare.
"This situation is unacceptable," stated R. David Weisskopf,
Love for Israel Relief Fund's chairman.
"On
the one hand, Israel placed 500 percent more families under closely
supervised visitation than Illinois in 2004 when I served as a
consultant with the DCFS director. Since then, Israel's supervised
visitation has increased by 73 percent - with a devastating impact
on ethnic minorities, immigrants and suicide rates."
Weisskopf adds: "It is five times more deadly for a father
to get divorced in Israel than to drink and drive in Illinois.
On the other hand, I hope both sides will return to the table
and allow us to arbitrate a peaceful solution without involving
the UN."
In an effort to restore family values, the proposal suggests seriously
engaging divorced families and beginning to fill the gaps of service
to this fragile and oftentimes explosive population. Children
grow up in limbo as divorcing families have to wait six months
to a year - or more - for a professional report in order to finalize
visitation and custodial arrangements.
"The only way out of this mess is outsourcing services,"
said Weisskopf. "We are setting an example by sponsoring
a privately-run family support center in Jerusalem." The
Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services can more efficiently
hold private contractors like this center to higher standards
of excellence than government-employed bureaucrats. The proposal
states that the first center opening in Jerusalem will begin offering
therapeutic support groups in English and Hebrew to parents in
divorce situations. "For now all our funding comes from private
donations," he said, "but we need to start these groups
right away and worry about funds later."
Fathers
4 Justice Israel, a non-profit organization which advocates
equal access to children by divorced parents, endorses Weisskopf's
plan.
"Thousands
of fathers and their children are victimized by pathological mothers
who falsely charge the children's father with child abuse and
then use the dysfunctional Israel Family Court and Child Welfare
to remove his rights as a father with no investigation, no interviews
by forensic psychologists, not one question. All it takes is a
claim of child abuse," says Joel Leyden, director of Fathers
4 Justice Israel.
"The
father's rights are removed lacking all due process," says
Leyden. "The Israel Family Court then passes the case to
child welfare which fails to investigate any charges and simply
treats both father and child like criminals limiting their contact
to supervised one hour visits once a week. Many fathers then suffer
from PAS - Parental Alienation Syndrome, simply giving up and
walking away leaving the child without a loving, caring and responsible
father. This is the epitome of emotional abuse exercised by the
State of Israel. As such, Fathers 4 Justice Israel is planning
a 10 million USD law suit against the Israel Ministry of Justice."
The
Israel News Agency has learned that Leyden has been separated
from his children in Ra'anana, Israel for over 8 months based
on owing a small amount of back child support which could have
Leyden imprisoned in debtors jail. The INA has also learned
that his ex-wife earns over 2.5 million dollars a year from a
packaging factory that she and her family operate in Israel. His
ex states that "it is not about money" as she was originally
accused of child abuse by Leyden and now uses her family's law
firm to criminally harass Leyden.
At
one point, Leyden alleges, that the Feder Law firm in Netanya
sent over two private detectives who physically assaulted Leyden.
Leyden, who was then hospitalized and had his child treated for
trauma, then filed criminal charges with the Kfar Sava Police
department. The two private detectives admitted to police that
they were sent to Leyden's home under the guise of serving court
papers and then pushed and kicked Leyden in front of his 10-year-old
daughter. Neighbors took photos of the assault. The INA has
discovered that this police investigation is still under way.
In
addition, it is alleged that Leyden's ex who lives in Ra'anana,
Israel paid two women, Rachel Maybri and Ricki K. DeWolff to create
false charges of child abuse and that no investigation into these
false charges has been made by either the Family Court in Kfar
Sava or by Ra'anana Child Welfare. Leyden plans on suing his ex,
the Feder Law firm, Ra'anana Mayor Nachum Hofree, Rachel Maybri
and Ricki De Wolff for perjury, criminal negligence, criminal
harassment, abuse of the court system, libel and slander.
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