VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA)
The Age

December 17, 2017

By Rachel Kleinman

Dassi Erlich was sitting in a Jerusalem restaurant last month with her sisters, Elly Sapper and Nicole Meyer, inside a cavernous space dominated by funky light fittings, when an ultra-Orthodox Jewish teenager approached the table.

The girl had recognised the three women from Israeli television coverage. As she spoke, they listened with tears in their eyes.

“She shared a similar story to ours,” Erlich says. “An insular school, vulnerable students, a female principal abusing her power … As soon as she said it, you could see the fear. She wouldn’t tell us her name or what school she went to.

“[But] seeing us, our story and the campaign on TV had given her the courage and understanding to stop what was happening to her.”

It was a rare spontaneous encounter for the three siblings in a tightly-packed, gruelling nine-day…