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Israeli Family Court Judge Phillip Marcus, who recently refused to grant a paternity test to Dan Goldberg, a homosexual father to twins born to a surrogate mother in India, approved the test May 17.

Earlier that day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset he had asked Interior Minister Eli Yishai to allow the father to return to Israel together with the twins.

Goldberg and his two newborn children, Itai and Liron, have been in India for almost two months after Marcus rejected their appeal for a paternity test, a procedure generally granted in such situations, claiming its approval was “beyond his jurisdiction.”

The judge wrote in his verdict that he had decided to approve the test after receiving authority to do so from the Jerusalem District Court, as well as a statement from the prosecution saying the state was not opposed to it. He had previously claimed the decision was not within his jurisdiction. — ynetnews.com