Former Australian school principal and alleged child abuser Malka Leifer arrested in IsraelSUPPLIED Malka Leifer has been arrested in Israel. Alleged Australian paedophile Malka Leifer, a former school principal facing 74 charges of child sex abuse, has been arrested in Israel after a decade of fighting extradition. Leifer fled to Israel in 2008 when allegations she had sexually abused girls at the ultra-orthodox Adass Israel School in Elsternwick, Melbourne, where she was principal, were first raised. READ MORE: Former Australian principal accused of 74 child sex chargesShe was released from her house arrest and ordered psychiatric treatment in Jerusalem. "It has been a very long 10 years since Malka Leifer fled Australia.

Source: Stuff February 12, 2018 22:07 UTC