JERUSALEM (VosIzNeias) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would sign off on the extradition of sex abuse suspect Malka Leifer if so ordered by a Jerusalem court.
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The Times Of Israel reports that Netanyahu met Monday with a bipartisan Australian delegation of former ministers, community leaders, and other senior officials led by former Prime Minister John Howard, at the meeting Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) president Jeremy Leibler who organized the trip, raised the issue of Malka Leifer.
According to the report Leibler received confirmation from Netanyahu” that the Israeli government would not further prolong legal proceedings against Leifer.
The extradition process against the former Israeli principal of the Adass Israel ultra-Orthodox girls school in Melbourne has dragged on for over five years, as Leifer’s attorneys have argued that she is mentally incompetent.
Leifer, an Israeli citizen who headed an all-girls ultra-Orthodox school in Melbourne, is accused of the rape and sexual assault against her students in Australia. Hours after the charges were published in 2008 she fled to Israel, and in 2014 Australia asked for her extradition.
Last week, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with two of Leifer’s alleged victims and issued a statement calling for the case to be wrapped up quickly.
ie “I won’t interfere like Litzman did, but I won’t do anything to help bring justice for the victims.”
Netanyahu is passing the blame on to the rabbis, rightfully, the rabbis are protecting this criminal for their own reasons
Send her back. If she is indeed mentally unstable, let her use an insanity defense in Australian court. If that washes, then she should be confined in an appropriate psychiatric facility for life. If and when she is determined to be stable enough to remain outside of a residential facility, she should incur the full punishment upon conviction. The sham of falsifying records to protect her should be over, and cleanup requires those involved to be, at the very least, relieved of the duties they exploited.
Don’t deport her, with her out of Israel what would the self appoint “advocate” do all day long
I don’t understand what the big deal is about in this case, as such deportations or extraditions of wanted fugitives are not unprecedented. In 1971, Israel deported Meir Lansky who was wanted in the USA. After Lansky was deported to the USA, he stood trial and was found not guilty. However, the Israelis would not let him come back.
I just asked about this further up the page. There certainly seem no good reason to continue to protect her.
They should not hand her over to Australia. They should do with her what the Yidn used to do with predators in the heim: give her a one-way, underwater trip in the local mikveh in the dead of the night.
I have never heard of Yiden drowning anyone in a mikveh. Due process is always necessary in Judaism. Stop spreading lies.