Posted on 06/10/2011 2:34:18 PM PDT by IsraelBeach
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 June 2 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 Israel 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, 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 system to remove his basic human 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 and the Israel Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Welfare"
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 own and 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, Israel 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 Israel 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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