The undercover operation to bring alleged paedophile principal Malka Leifer to justice

The time stamp states it is 08:12:13 on December 18, 2017, and the person recording appears to be walking through a small convenience store in Immanuel, Israel.

The picture is unsteady. Shelves stacked with random household items flash past on an angle until a man sitting at the cashier’s till comes into shot along with a number of ultra-orthodox Jewish men.

Slowly, the jerky vision settles on a woman standing in an aisle and chatting to the cashier as she buys a loaf of bread and a container of biscuits.

It is Malka Leifer, the former principal of the ultra-orthodox Jewish Adass Israel Girls School in Melbourne, who is wanted on 74 charges of child sexual abuse in Australia.

The footage, airing nationally for the first time on Australian Story, was captured during a secret surveillance operation to help Melbourne-based Dassi Erlich and her two sisters, Nicole and Elly, bring Ms Leifer to justice.

Read the article at the ABC Online and watch the Australian Story’s two-part special The Justice Principle on ABC iview or ABC News Youtube.