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2,059 shares Malka Leifer, a teacher wanted in Australia for child sex abuse, seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on July 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that former school principal Malka Leifer can be extradited to Australia, where she is wanted to face charges of sexual abuse of pupils, bringing her six-year effort to prevent the move to an almost certain end. “All who seeks to evade justice shall know that they will not find a city of refuge in Israel,” Justices Anat Baron, Isaac Amit, and...

Last modified on Tue 15 Dec 2020 09.51 EST Israel’s supreme court has rejected an appeal by alleged child sex abuser Malka Leifer to block her extradition to Australia, effectively ending a years-long judicial saga that has tested relations between the two countries. The extraction request will now be decided by Israel’s justice minister, Avi Nissenkorn, who announced on Tuesday he would comply. “I welcome the supreme court ruling to extradite Malka Leifer to Australia,” Nissenkorn wrote on Twitter. “After long and torturous years, the time has come to do justice to Leifer’s victi...