The family of Ali, suspected of murder, wants to take the young son of the Belarusian woman killed in Israel. The grandfather goes to Sharia court

31-year-old Gomel resident Yanina Rusinova was found on the night of September 25 on a stairwell in a Haifa building with a severe stab wound to the neck. The woman was taken to the hospital, but it was not possible to save her. Yanina's husband, 28-year-old Ali Maswadeh, was arrested on suspicion of murder. He remains in custody.

Yanina left behind a son, who was only two months old at the time of her death. The child was placed with a secretive emergency foster family. Where and with whom he lives is not disclosed, not even to his grandmother.

It has now emerged that the family of the man suspected of murdering his mother also wants to obtain custody of the boy.

Grandmother promised participation in the session — but not called

On October 20, a commission meeting was held in Israel to discuss the child's future.

Yanina's mother, 53-year-old Gomel resident Hanna Rusinova, was promised that she would be able to join the discussion online. At the appointed time, the woman waited by the phone, but no one contacted her. She tried to call the responsible services herself, but they did not answer.

Only in the evening was Hanna informed that the session had already taken place. This was written by Israeli activist Lily Ben-Ami, who is helping Yanina's family and publishing information with her consent.

According to Hanna, it became known at the session that Ali Maswadeh's father had applied to the Sharia court to obtain his grandson. At the same time, the commission members discussed whether Hanna herself would be able to raise the infant, as she is caring for her husband — Yanina's father — who has serious health problems.

The grandmother has not yet been informed of the final decision.

The child's father still retains parental rights

The situation is complicated by the fact that Ali Maswadeh has not yet been charged with murder. He remains a suspect and formally retains parental rights.

As Hanna understood from the explanations of social services, they are now awaiting a decision on the charges. If the man is officially charged with Yanina's murder, he may lose custody rights over his son. How long this will take is not explained to the family.

The child, meanwhile, remains with a secretive Muslim foster family. The grandmother is not allowed to visit her grandson or talk to him via video call. In almost a month, Hanna has only three times received a few photos of the boy and one short video recording.

Social services explain such secrecy by security concerns: the child's whereabouts are hidden from all parties.

Ali himself grew up without parents

As Yanina told her close friend, her husband Ali had a difficult childhood. His mother is a Jew with Russian roots, and his father is a Muslim. According to the friend's account, both parents abandoned Ali after his birth. Until the age of four, he was raised in a Jewish foster family, and then his Muslim aunt — his father's sister — took him.

Now it is Ali's father, who, according to this version, did not raise his own son in early childhood, who is asking the Sharia court to hand over his grandson to him.

Yanina converted to Islam for marriage

According to activist Ben-Ami, before marriage, Yanina converted to Islam at Ali's request, but did not adhere to Muslim religious traditions in her daily life.

The Belarusian woman's family is concerned that her formal religious affiliation may influence the determination of the child's future. Hanna was allegedly given to understand that due to Yanina's conversion to Islam and the grandmother's residence in Belarus, the court might favor the father's Muslim relatives.

Yanina's loved ones claim that her husband's family treated her poorly. The woman herself maintained daily contact with her mother and friends and told them what was happening at home. Previously, Yanina's friend reported to Israeli journalists that Ali threatened to take the child from his wife and, a few weeks before her death, hit her on the head with a phone.

Shortly before her death, the Belarusian woman applied for a passport for her son but did not manage to receive it. Her loved ones suggest that Yanina was preparing to take the child out of Israel.

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Yanina's friend is ready to immediately take the infant

While the issue of the boy's custody is being resolved, Yanina's family has proposed a compromise option. A close friend of Yanina and her husband are ready to become temporary foster parents. They live in Israel, knew Yanina, are familiar with the child and, according to Ben-Ami, know his routine: what he eats, how he sleeps, and what he likes.

The friend comes from a Russian-speaking family and works in a private kindergarten, where she daily cares for infants aged three months and older. She and her husband are ready to raise the boy for as long as necessary, until Hanna receives permission to take him to Belarus.

The grandmother, through her lawyer, officially requested that her grandson be handed over to this family. She has not received a response.

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