Australian Jewish School Principal Convicted of Sexual Abuse

Malka Leifer, the former principal of a Jewish girls school in Australia, has been found guilty of sexually abusing two students, including rape, and acquitted of nine other charges. Leifer had fought against her extradition to Australia following her return to Israel in 2008 as allegations against her first emerged. The legal battle she waged in Jerusalem courts since 2014 ended in 2021 when she boarded a flight toward Melbourne at Ben Gurion Airport, her ankles and wrists shackled.