Published: 3 December 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
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Accused sex abuser Malka Leifer faces wait on extradition appeal verdict (SMH)
Accused paedophile Malka Leifer will have to wait until next week for a decision on her appeal against extradition to Australia to face charges of sex abuse. In a hearing on Thursday that lasted for more than an hour, a panel of three judges at Israel's Supreme Court heard Ms Leifer’s defence lawyers argue against her extradition with claims ranging from the technical to the “absurd”, one judge said.
The judges are expected to make a decision next week.
Malka Leifer's 'last-ditch' hearing in Israeli Supreme Court over extradition to Australia (Nine News)
The fate of former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer is a step closer to being sealed, with her appeal against being extradited to Australia heard overnight in the Israeli Supreme Court.
9News Europe Correspondent Ben Avery said the Thursday hearing was "essentially a last-ditch attempt to try avoid being sent back to Melbourne", where she would face charges.
Leifer is accused of 74 charges of rape and child sex abuse — acts allegedly committed against her students at the Adass Israel School in Melbourne's inner southeast more than a decade ago.
Photo: A Leifer family member, right, with one of Malka Leifer's lawyers Nick Kaufman at Thursday's hearing (Gabrielle Weiniger)
