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What Did Malka Leifer Do? Facts To Know About Former School Principal

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Sebastian Wright

Updated on January 01, 2026

Former principal of Melbourne school Malka Leifer is accused of sexual abuse and is yet to be featured on Wikipedia. Here’s what you need to know about Leifer.

Malka Leifer has been serving in Adass Isreal School from 2003 to 2008 as a head principal.

She was highly praised in the community for running day-to-day school operations and teaching the students Jewish studies.

She was a powerful woman in Melbourne’s Adass community. Adass community is a small community of around 200 to 500 families.

She was respected and looked up by all the community people as she was the head of the school.

The Jewish school principal has been accused of sexual abuse; she is facing 70 charges of child sex abuse, out of which four charges have been dropped.

Malka Leifer Wikipedia

A former ultra-orthodox school head Malka Leifer information has not been published on Wikipedia profile. However, there is a Wikipedia profile on the Adass Israel School sex abuse scandal.

This is a criminal case, and the Victoria police have charged dozen of charges against former principal Malka Leifer.

Malka Leifer managed to evade extradition proceedings for almost two years.

The allegations are being leveled up one by one, but Malka Leifer pleaded not guilty and is denying it.

Malka Leifer Age

Malka Leifer age is 55 years . However, her actual date of birth is not publicly available.

Accused child abuser wearing a white head wrap Malka Leifer zipped her lips in Melbourne Court.

The case was reopened in 2014, but Malka did not attend the hearing claiming that she was unwell.

After that, the Israeli court dropped the extradition effort, declaring that Malka was mentally ill and was unfit to be tried in Australia in 2016.

Malka Liefer Husband, Family, and Children

The information regarding her husband, family, and Children has not been disclosed yet.

However, Malka’s sister Dassi Erlich claimed that she was also a victim of sexual abuse at the age of 15.

She claimed that Malka Uses her power to be the head of the school and sexually harrases the 8-16-year-olds.

Their community was very ultra-orthodox; there was no TV, radio, internet newspaper, newsletter.

It was isolated from the outside world. In 2008 the school was altered about sex education.

The Adass community allegedly paid for Leifer and her family to flee to Israel, whereas Erlich started a campaign to bring back her abuser to Melbourne court.