ISRAEL/AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Middle East correspondent Sophie McNeill
Updated February 22, 2016
An Israeli judge has rejected a plea to drop the extradition case of a former principal accused of molesting students at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne.
At a hearing on Sunday at the Jerusalem District Court, attorney Yehuda Fried told Judge Amnon Cohen that former Adass Israel School principal Malka Leifer went into “panic attacks” whenever her court date approached.
“The attempts to extradite her to Australia has put her in a panicked state. Since then she has started to get waves of panic causing depression,” Mr Fried told the court.
“Why are we doing this to her?”
It was the seventh court hearing to determine whether Ms Leifer was mentally well enough to be extradited to Australia.
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