Yesterday the ex-President of Israel (he resigned from the largely ceremonial post of head of state in 2007), Moshe Katsav, was convicted of rape by a jury in open court in Tel Aviv.
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He was found guilty of raping an employee in the 1990s, when he was
tourism minister and of later sexual offences while he was President.
The judges said they believed the evidence of the woman whose testimony
had led to two charges of rape.
