New allegations against Leifer

SEVERAL Israeli women are claiming that they were allegedly abused by Malka Leifer, Israel’s state broadcaster Kan reported early Tuesday morning [Australia time]. 

“She was crazy about me, she was always stroking [me],” one woman alleged, according to Kan, which says it has other testimonies which is plans to air.

“She would sit with me in private conversation and simply stroke my leg, back and forth on the skirt.” 

Within moments of the bulletin, reporter  Akiva Weisz received a note saying that another woman is allegedly coming forward. 

Weisz told The AJN he said several other interviews with women claiming abuse, and that he is waiting for permission from them to air interviews.

Today’s revelation is another twist in the Leifer case, which for years has been focussed on efforts to extradite her to Australia for crimes allegedly committed there.

The latest claims relate to a Bnei Brak school where she used to teach. 

Kan quoted its interviewee saying that Leifer would “take me downstairs, in the direction of the bomb shelter,” and “once she invited me to her house, but I have a black out.” 

Weisz said that he believes that at least some of his interviewees decided to speak out because Leifer’s name appeared in the news in Israel, after police started investigating Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman on suspicions that he helped falsified psychiatric assessments to help the former Adass Israel principal evade extradition.

Nathan Jeffay