Study Abroad Ends – One Parent Refuses to Return 'Home': My husband and I agreed to go the States with our children for him to take a Master's degree. We rented out our home in Israel for the period of his study. He has now got his Master's. I have flown back to Israel to get the house ready, but he refuses to come back with the children. What can I do?

You can bring legal action for their return to Israel under the Hague Convention, which binds both countries involved. When you both agreed to go abroad with your children for a specific period (his studies) you did not agree to change the children's habitual residence from Israel to the States and he, as one parent, cannot unilaterally impose such a change. He is wrongfully retaining them in the States. It may be helpful for you to apply to the family court in Israel to get a declaratory injunction declaring Israel as the children's country of habitual residence.