Tel-Chai Nation

As expected, the defense team for the Haredi child molestor wanted in Australia continue to do everything they can to mock the Israeli justice system:

Attorneys for alleged sex offender Malka Leifer filed an appeal to the Supreme Court concerning the ruling by the Jerusalem District Court that Leifer is mentally fit to be extradited to Australia to stand trial there.

[...] “We weren’t really surprised that the sex criminal Malka Leifer filed an appeal on the decision,” said the Magen La’Kehilot Yehudiot organization in response to the appeal on Wednesday. “We hope that the Supreme Court will reject the request outright and allow her to stand trial. We strengthen the victims and hope that Leifer’s extradition to Australia and prosecution will give them some comfort.”

I too hope the court will reject the appeal, because the more this is delayed, the worse things get. Indeed, it's honestly bad that the lower court gave room for an appeal to be filed. They shouldn't have.

Since we're on the subject, I also found news from a week ago that the chief rabbinate refused to revoke accreditation for disgraced rabbi Mordechai Elon, who was accused of similar acts:

Despite legal pressure from a petition to the High Court of Justice, the Chief Rabbinate has declined to revoke the accreditation obtained in the past by disgraced rabbi Moti Elon, and has sufficed with merely accepting his pledge not to seek any public position in the rabbinate.

Elon was convicted by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court in 2013 of two counts of indecent assault by force against a minor. He did not appeal, and was sentenced to six-months community service by the court.

In 2018, new allegations of sexual molestation of a minor were made against Elon, who had returned to public activity several years after his conviction, and three of the most senior religious-Zionist rabbis in the country. Rabbis Haim Druckman, Yaakov Ariel and Shmuel Eliyahu, told him to cease all public activity and to stop receiving youths in private for advice.

Efforts were made to have the Chief Rabbinate revoke his qualifications to serve as a municipal chief rabbi and neighborhood rabbi, since under the terms of the Regulations for Jewish Religious Services 2007, the Council of the Chief Rabbinate can do so if a rabbi “acted in a way that is incommensurate with his position as a rabbi among the Jewish people,” or if he was convicted of a crime whose severity is such that it can be concluded that the rabbi is not fit to serve as a public official.

Last year, however, a disciplinary committee set up by the Chief Rabbinate decided to suffice with a declaration by Elon that he would not seek public office for a period of 10 years after his conviction, which would have expired in 2023.

The rabbinate is run by 2 Haredi rabbis, Yitzhak Yosef and David Lau, and this is not going to reflect well on their reputation, if they're allowing this. A so-called religious representative who disgraces his position through serious offenses should be defrocked. This isn't going to improve the situation.

Labels: Australia, haredi corruption, Israel, misogyny, Moonbattery