Malka Leifer, who was accused of committing sexual offenses with her students when she was principal of an ultra-Orthodox school in Melbourne, will stand trial after an Australian court ruled today (Thursday) that there is sufficient evidence.
Leifer is charged with 70 counts of sexual assault over a period of 4 years, from 2004 to 2008.
As you may recall, in 2008 Leifer returned to Israel and for years lived in Emanuel.
In Israel, she was arrested in 2014 and only after 7 years was she extradited to Australia, where she was prosecuted for dozens of sexual offenses against her students when they were minors.
The extradition operation was conducted in a cloak of secrecy by officials from the Ministries of Justice and Interpol.
Her extradition was made possible after the Supreme Court rejected a petition she had filed, thus ending a legal saga that lasted about 13 years.
The Supreme Court justices who rejected her appeal argued that the extradition agreements signed by the State of Israel, the purpose of which is international cooperation for the eradication of crime, should be respected, and that the conditions for its extradition are met.