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01/10/2008 | 10:19 PM
A Filipino woman’s deportation from Israel has been delayed by a custody battle over her four-year-old daughter who holds an Israeli citizenship.
The Haifa district court on Thursday allowed the girl, whose father is an Israeli, to stay with her mother in a detention center in Hadera while the custody battle remains unresolved, according to Israel’s Ynetnews.
The court ordered the girl’s father to take her to kindergarten class every morning from the “Michal" detention center in Hadera.
The report said the girl’s parents met several years while her father was still married. The girl, the product of their affair, was born four years ago.
The Filipino mother went for a visit to the Philippines with the girl about two years ago. A few weeks later, the mother told the child’s mother that his daughter was ill.
The Israeli father went to the Philippines and found the mother and daughter living in a broken down shanty at the edge of the village without basic hygienic conditions.
The father took his daughter back to Israel, where she was hospitalized. Doctors believed she fell ill because of the poor conditions in the village where she stayed in the Philippines, Ynetnews reported.
The mother went back to Israel in March 2006 with a tourist visa procured by the father. Since she could not secure a permanent visa, or authorization to work in Israel, the mother now faces deportation. She has been in detention pending hearing of her deportation case.
The court said the mother's deportation may have to be delayed "until the custody matter is settled." GMA
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