An Australian court has ordered the trial of Malka Leifer in a sexual assault case

Leifer’s attorney, Nick Kaufman, said in an email that the amount of evidence that will determine whether a lawsuit proceeds is “extremely small.”

He added: “As of today’s decision, it is clear that Ms Leifer’s decision to take a small decision as a guilty plea is unfair.” “Ms. Leifer will finally have the right to be heard before a duly issued jury, where the entire credibility of the complainants will be tested.”

Ms. Leifer, an Israeli national, moved to Australia in 2001 and later became President of Israel. He fled to Israel in 2008 after details of the alleged attacks emerged.

Australia called for her expulsion in 2014 after a public campaign by three sisters. The trial was initially postponed when Ms Leifer was found to be mentally unfit to extradite, and the slow pace of the case came under fire from Israeli lawmakers from the Australian legislature.

The case concerned the Orthodox Israeli minister himself, Ms Leifer, who was a member of then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, as well as Yaakov Litzman. The occupation police say that Ms. Leifer lobbied psychiatrists to report that Ms. Leifer was unfit for questioning.

But after seven years of legal battle, the Israeli court ruled in May 2020. He was a fake psychiatrist for many years and authorized to undergo extradition proceedings. In January of this year he was deported to Australia.

Following an Israeli media report, the country’s attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, announced that he would sue Mr. Litzman for justice and breach of trust in the Leifer case.