Alex Dafner: Mark Regev, from Melbourne , Israel’s ambassador to UK: 10.4.2016

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NSW Premier Mike Baird and wife Kerry visited Israel and met President Reuven Rivlin, Health Minister Jacob Litzman, a Hebrew Uni research team, and paid an emotional visit to Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, as well Jerusalems holy sites and the West Bank, including a Palestinian refugee camp partly funded by Australian charities.Mark Regev, who grew up in Melbourne as Mark Freiberg, and who emigrated to Israel in 1982, has become Israels new ambassador to the UK, following a stellar career as Israels foreign office and Premier Netanyahus spokesman to the world media.A new suit of sexual abuse against a child, will be filed in a Victorian court against Malka Leifer, the former principal of the Melbourne Adass-Israel School, who ran away to Israel and is fighting extradition to Victoria to face 74 previous criminal charges against her. Alex Lewenberg, a Melbourne lawyer who told a victim of sexual abuse at the Yeshiva College in Melbourne that it is forbidden to inform on another Jew by Jewish law, has apologised to the victim during a hearing, which is yet to determine whether he will be disqualified from practicing as a lawyer.



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