Victims of alleged child-sex offender Malka Leifer have renewed calls for Australia to increase pressure on Israel after it was recommended the country’s Deputy Health Minister face criminal charges for preventing the extradition of the former principal to Melbourne.
Israeli police recommended that Yaakov Litzman be charged with offences of fraud, breach of trust and impeachment in testimony in Ms Leifer’s case, after a six-month investigation into accusations he pressured two psychiatrists to alter the conclusions on their evaluations of Ms Leifer’s mental fitness to be extradited.
Ms Leifer fled to Israel in 2008, hours after allegations surfaced that she had sexually abused students in her care at the ultra-orthodox Adass Israel Jewish girls school in Melbourne.
Read the article by Elias Visontay in The Australian.