Category Archive for : ‘ISRAEL’

March 17, 2021k
Times of Israel

The founder of the ZAKA emergency services organization, accused of multiple cases of sexual abuse, will defend himself by claiming that all sexual relations were consensual, a Channel 12 reported Tuesday.

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav had previously denied the claims outright.

Meshi-Zahav was accused last week of sexual assault, rape, and abuse by six people in a report by the Haaretz daily, which said there are likely many more cases.

More alleged victims have come forward since the bombshell investigation was released, as well as reports that Meshi-Zahav’s alleged crimes

January 25, 2021
Ilan Ben Zion
AP News

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli authorities on Monday extradited a former teacher accused of sexually abusing her former students in Australia, capping a six-year legal battle that had strained relations between the two governments and antagonized Australia’s Jewish community.

Malka Leifer, who is wanted on 74 charges of child sex abuse in Australia, was placed on a flight early in the day, several hours before Israel was to close its international airport to nearly all air traffic due to a raging coronavirus outbreak. Israeli media photographed Leifer

July 8, 2020
Melissa Davey
The Guardian

Lawyers for the former Australian school principal Malka Leifer, who is wanted on more than 74 charges of sexually abusing students, have launched an appeal in the Jerusalem high court to a decision that she is mentally fit to stand trial and can be extradited to Australia.

In May, Judge Chana Miriam Lomp said she had accepted the opinion of an expert psychiatric panel that Leifer was fit to face an extradition trial, after prosecutors successfully argued she was feigning mental illness to avoid trial. However, on Wednesday Israel’s

February 19, 2020
Ian Lee
CBS News

Tel Aviv — It’s a tense stakeout, waiting for Jimmy Julius Karow to appear. He is a wanted man and is considered dangerous. Accused of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Oregon in 2000, he fled to Israel before authorities in the U.S. could apprehend him or figure out where he went. Karow has been running from U.S. law enforcement ever since. Currently INTERPOL, an inter-governmental policing organization that works with 194 countries, has a Red Notice to alert police worldwide that he’s a fugitive.
Two years

failedmessiah.com

An indictment was filed in Tel Aviv District Court today against 52 year old Rabbi YaakovVimer, a teacher from the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak who is suspected of sexually abusing oneof his students.  He allegedly committed sodomy and sexual assault on the then 12 year old boyover a two year period beginning in 2002 and ending in 2003.  Vimer allegedly sexuallyassaulted the boy dozens of times at school and in Vimer’s home, forcibly secluding the boy in alocked classroom or a locked room in Vimer’s home, force the

According to the Associated Press, an Israeli travel agent was sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping Miss World at knifepoint in October 1998.  The rape occurred two months before she was crowned Miss World.