THE rabbi who offered to supervise fugitive Melbourne schoolteacher Malka Leifer to allow her release into home detention has withdrawn his support following a sustained campaign from victim advocates.
Rabbi Yitzhak Dovid Grossman had told the courts he would supervise Ms Leifer, 54, if she was released from custody while the Israeli courts considered whether to extradite her to Australia.
She had avoided the justice system in Australia for 10 years after fleeing to Israel on the day former female students went to police to allege she had committed 74 sexual abuse offences while the principal of the Adass Israel School in Melbourne.
She was sheltered by the ultra-orthodox community and avoided extradition after the Israeli courts ruled she was too mentally unwell to return.
Read the report by Ellen Whinnett in the Herald Sun.