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An Australian man has been reportedly subjected to an 8,000-year exit ban and will not be allowed to leave Israel until the year 9999 due to unpaid child support, The Jerusalem Post reports, citing NewsAU.

Noam Huppert, a 44-year-old foreign national of Australia, has had a “stay-of-exit” order against him since 2013 and cannot lift the order until he makes an outstanding $3.34 million in child support payments.

“The total in the year 2013 was roughly ₪7.5 million ($3.34 million),” Mr. Huppert, who works as an analytical chemist for a pharmaceutical company, told NewsAU. Israeli courts had ruled Huppert owed NIS 5,000 per month for each child until they turned 18.

“Since 2013, I am locked in Israel,” Huppert explained, adding that he was one of many Australian citizens that have been “persecuted by the Israeli justice system only because they were married to Israeli women.”

The laws regarding child support are unclear, though it seems that the year 9999 was set because it was the highest possible date that fit in the field.