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Malka Leifer’s journey from gated community to a Melbourne court By Gabrielle Weiniger Save Normal text size Advertisement Wearing a white head wrap, accused child abuser Malka Leifer sat in silence before a Melbourne court via video link on Thursday, stooped over and hiding her face with her arms crossed. Her hunched position was familiar from court appearances in her native Israel, but for the first time something was different: she was finally facing prosecution and her accusers on Australian soil, six years after the case against her was opened in 2014. Malka Leifer’s home is lo...

 |  No. 334 World Xi Jinping warns on meddling in internal affairs. PNG governor backing local Chinese fishery plant. Thousands flee rebel violence in Central African Republic. By Jonathan Pearlman. Accused paedophile Malka Leifer in a Jerusalem court in 2018. Credit: AP Photo / Mahmoud Illean Great power rivalry Share China: Xi Jinping delivered a speech to government and business leaders at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda conference this week, calling for greater co-operation to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and rising inequality. Echoing his previous addr...

The former principal of the Adass Israel School in Elsternwick is accused of sexually abusing three of her then students between 2004 and 2008. Charge sheets allege most of the offences were committed in Elsternwick, but also in Elwood, Frankston and Emerald and the regional towns of Blampied and Rawson. Advertisement Sisters Elly Sapper, Dassi Erlich and Nicole Meyer, the women who allege they were abused as children by Ms Leifer, were among the 30 people watching Thursday’s hearing via video link. Ms Leifer has long maintained she is innocent. She fled to Israel in 2008 when the allegatio...

Malka Leifer faces first court hearing in Australia over child sex abuse charges after extradition from Israel ThuThursday 28 updated ThuThursday 28 Malka Leifer's lawyer did not make any application for bail. ( Print text only Cancel Malka Leifer's lawyer says his client has "significant mental health issues" and needs "special arrangements" in custody, as the former school principal has faced an Australian court for the first time on child sexual abuse charges. Key points: Ms Leifer faced the Bail and Remand Court in Melbourne via video link Her lawyer did not apply for bail but asked for ...

Crime by Caroline Schelle   Nearly a decade after leaving the country, former principal Malka Leifer is back in Melbourne to face court on child sex abuse allegations. The former principal of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Adass Israel School is expected to front Melbourne Magistrates Court at 10am Thursday after her plane touched down overnight. Ms Leifer is accused of sexually abusing three of her former students between 2001 and 2008 but has denied all the allegations. Former Australian teacher Malka Leifer is expected to face court on Thursday on sex ab...