In a precedent-setting decision, a Jerusalem rabbinical court has forbidden the children of a Sderot resident from visiting their father due to the security situation in the western Negev town.

The court determined that the father would be able to spend the Sukkot holiday with his children - ages three, four and seven - only if he would take them elsewhere.

The father, predictably, reacted furiously, saying, "This is absurd. I serve in the security forces, guard the state and my city day and night, and they won't let me watch my children in my home?"