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The same court ruled in May that Lever was mentally competent to appear in court, rejecting arguments to the contrary.
In July, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal of his lawyers who opposed the extradition, saying the ongoing legal process was correct. He dropped the decision to extradite her to the Jerusalem District Court.
According to the Australian media, Lever faces 74 charges related to sexual assault on underage girls.
Dacy Ehrlich, a former Lever school student and alleged victim, described the ruling as: "A victory for justice" about "To all the survivors". She wrote on her Twitter account. "Today our hearts are smiling".
Following the District Court’s decision on Monday, Lever’s legal defense team, attorneys Tal Gabbay and Yehuda Farid, said in a statement that they would appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
And I add: "This decision made today, of course, is not the last, and the final decision will be made in the Supreme Court.". The statement indicated that Lever is currently receiving "Important treatment for psychosis." in prison. His lawyer says he faces "Three real complaints.
Since the allegations against him emerged in 2008, Lever and his family have left Australia for Israel, where he resides in the settlement of Emmanuel in the occupied West Bank.
Other attempts to extradite her to Australia between 2014 and 2016 failed after Lever was placed in a mental health institution. Experts confirmed that he was unable to appear in court.
However, secret private investigations that took pictures of her while buying and depositing a check in a bank led the Israeli authorities to open an investigation to determine if she suffers from a mental or mental illness, or if she claims it to avoid extradition to Australia.
Authorities arrested Lever on February 12 pending an investigation. The 40-page minutes of the May session cited the opinion of an expert panel that said Lafer "He did not suffer from mental problems related to mental illness as defined by law.".
Judge Shana Lomb wrote: "My impression is that the accused is aggravating her mental problems and pretends to have a mental illness.".
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Malka Lever (74), who is an Orthodox Jew, faces charges of sexual assault against female students, when she was in charge of a school for religious Jews in the Australian city of Melbourne, to which she immigrated from her country of Israel, according to police .
The Central Court of Israel in occupied East Jerusalem stated, “in accordance with the Extradition Act”, that it “accepted the request of the prosecution and the extradition of the owner of the Levers to Australia”.
The court, which saw France Press in a copy of its decision, went on to say that the verdict was due “to sexual offenses that she was accused of having committed against minors at a school she ran in 1954 in Melbourne, where charges were brought against her. in Australia”.
The same court ruled in May that Lever was mentally competent to appear in court, rejecting arguments to the contrary.
In July, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal of his lawyers who opposed the extradition, saying that the ongoing legal process was correct. He dropped the decision to extradite her to the Jerusalem District Court.
According to the Australian media, Lever faces 74 charges related to sexual assault on underage girls.
Dacy Ehrlich, a former Lever school student and alleged victim, described the ruling as a “victory for justice” for “all survivors.” “Today our hearts smile,” she wrote on her Twitter account.
Following the District Court’s decision on Monday, Lever’s legal defense team, attorneys Tal Gabbay and Yehuda Farid, said in a statement that they would appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
And they added: “This decision that was made today, of course, is not the last, and the final decision will be made in the Supreme Court.” The statement said Lever is receiving “significant treatment for psychosis” in prison. His attorney says he faces “three real complaints.”
Since the allegations against him emerged in 2008, Lever and his family have left Australia for Israel, where he resides in the settlement of Emmanuel in the occupied West Bank.
Other attempts to extradite her to Australia between 2014 and 2016 failed after Lever was placed in a mental health institution. Experts confirmed that he was unable to appear in court.
However, secret private investigations that took pictures of her while buying and depositing a check in a bank, led the Israeli authorities to open an investigation to determine if she suffers from a mental or mental illness, or if she claims it to avoid extradition to Australia.
Authorities arrested Lever on February 12 pending an investigation. The minutes of the May session, which consisted of 40 pages, contained the opinion of a panel of experts, which said that Leifer “did not suffer from mental problems related to mental illness as defined by law.”
“My impression is that the defendant is exacerbating her mental problems and pretends to have a mental illness,” Judge Shana Lomb wrote.
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