In re the Estate of Weil

—Mercure, J.

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Sullivan County (Slobod, S.), entered October 29, 1992, which, upon reconsideration, adhered to its prior decision denying petitioner’s motion for summary judgement.

Irene Weil (hereinafter decedent) resided in both the United States and Israel, possessing assets in both nations. Decedent died in Israel in July 1987 and petitioner commenced a *839proceeding in the Beer Sheba Regional Rabbinical Court of Israel (hereinafter the Israeli Court), presenting a will executed by decedent in the United States in 1974 which bequeathed all of…