Malka Leifer, a former Australian school principal who is wanted in Australia on suspicion of sexually abusing students, walks in the corridor of the Jerusalem District Court accompanied by Israeli ...

(JTA) — Malka Leifer, a former principal at an Australian school for Orthodox girls who was convicted in April of abusing students in her care, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The sentencing ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The former principal of a Jewish girls school in Australia was found guilty Monday of sexually abusing two students, ending a nine-year legal battle that strained relations ...

A former principal at an Australian school for Orthodox girls has been convicted on 18 counts of abusing students, including a charge of rape, in a case that strained relations between Australia and ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former principal of an Australian Jewish school was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison after she was convicted of sexually abusing two students. Malka Leifer, 56, ...

Between 2019 and 2023, I reported on the Malka Leifer case for The Conversation. As an international lawyer, my focus was on the attempt to extradite Leifer from Israel to Australia for trial. Leifer ...

The Times of Israel reported Leifer, 54, who is wanted on 74 charges of sexual abuse in Australia, will remain in custody until it’s decided whether she will be extradited. Victorian police are ...

The case, which has been drawn out over a dozen years, has led to bad feelings against Israel in the Australian Jewish community. (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Malka Leifer ...

A judge in an Israeli court has ruled that Malka Leifer, a former school principal who has been accused of sexual abuse by former students, is fit to be extradited from Israel to Australia, where the ...

Malka Leifer seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court, July 20, 2020. On Monday, thirteen years after former Adass Israel school principal Malka Leifer ...

SYDNEY, April 3 (Reuters) - The former principal of an Australian ultra-Orthodox Jewish School, Malka Leifer, was found guilty of sexually abusing two former students by a Melbourne court on Monday, ...