The applicant and respondent were married in Canada and had three children. After their divorce the mother took the children to Israel in March 1992.
The mother argued that Quebec was not a ‘country’ bound by the 1980 Convention, that the father was not entitled to demand the return of the children since the mother was the primary carer and the father had only access rights, and also that the return should be refused based on Article 13(1)(b) of the Convention and the children’s’ objections to return.
