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On 8 September 2014, Tel Aviv-Yafo District Court convicted Ratzon in most of the sexual assaults which with he was charged and acquitted him of the slavery charge. On 28 October 2014, he was sentenced for 30 years of imprisonment. Ratzon filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Israel, which was denied on 18 July 2016.

Ratzon was taken under arrest on 12 January 2010 by Israeli police, being suspected for slavery and sexual assaults against minors. Galit, one of the wives who left him, whose two sisters also participated in his community, had filed a complaint against him for raping her when she was a minor in age of 14. After receiving Galit's complaint, the police had been keeping Ratzon and his wives under surveillance using hidden cameras and eavesdropping. In one of the recorded conversations, it was mentioned that he had sexual intercourse with one of his daughters. After Ratzon's arrest, his wives and children were evacuated from Ratzon's house to women's shelter, aided by the welfare services. In an interview from his arrest, he claimed that his relations with his wives were based on love and respect.

The daily life of Ratzon's cult was exposed to the public in 11 February 2009, by Israeli journalists Shelley Tapiro and Nesli Barda of Israeli TV Channel 10. Tapiro had received Ratzon's permission, after negotiating with him, to video record inside his house in 28 Ahima'ats Street at Hatikva Quarter in Tel Aviv. A day after broadcasting Tapiro and Barda's report, Ratzon was interviewed by Israeli TV Channel 2 and claimed that he had only assisted women who needed his help and nothing else. Nine of his sons and daughters were named after him, such as Goel ("Redeemer"), Yigal ("He will redeem"), Geula ("Redemption"), Yigaela (a feminine version of Yigal), Adoneinu HaGoel ("Our Lord the Redeemer") and Goeleliya ("God Redeemer"). The cult resided in several houses, in which Ratzon visited on and off. In each house, the home duties were distributed between the women. From time to time, Ratzon chose one of his wives to spend the night with him.

Ratzon was born in Hatikva Quarter to parents who made immigration to Israel (Aliyah) from Yemen. He worked in odd jobs, such as a renovation working and automotive mechanics. In 1972 he married a woman with whom he had five children. At the beginning of the 1980s, he met another woman with whom he had five more children. Starting in 1991, he became famous as a spiritual healer and as a proficient in Kabbalah while gathering many women to a cult in different methods. Some of these women added their female friends and relatives to Ratzon's cult. In these years, he earned his living by funds transferred to him directly from his wives, either salaries of their work as housewives or their income support as single mothers from Israel's national social security agency, Bituah Leumi. According to Ratzon, he made romantic relationships with his women, as the last relationship started in 2006.

Goel Ratzon (Hebrew: גואל רצון , born 19 September 1950) is an Israeli polygamist who led a cult in Hatikva Quarter in south Tel Aviv. As the cult leader, Ratzon had 21 wives, with whom he bore 49 children. In September 2014, Tel Aviv-Yafo District Court convicted Ratzon of rape, fraud, and other criminal charges against his wives and daughters. He was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment.