Jerusalem – A day after Moshe Katsav, Israel’s former president, turned 66, his modest home in this immigrant town was filled on Tuesday with grandchildren and well-wishers. Phones rang. Neighbors with sun-creased faces offered hugs. Rabbis in tall hats gave their blessings.
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Mr. Katsav was not celebrating his birthday, however. He was spending his last day as a free man in his own home, preparing to go to prison on Wednesday to serve a seven-year term.
Mr. Katsav seems to speak from the core of his being when he claims to be innocent of all charges. Tears flowed on occasion as he sat at his dining room table recounting the details of his case in a two-hour interview. He had come to doubt, he said, the system to which he had devoted his life.
“When I was president, I received 10,000 pardon requests,” he said. “They all claimed they had been the victims of injustice. I am so sorry that I immediately rejected those claims. Now I believe that some of them were innocent.”
I know most people here assume that since its the leftist judges that locked him up he’s innocent well about the Rape charge I am not sure however he’s guilty of a much bigger crime and that is of helping to give away the Jewish communities of Gush Katif a crime for which the Jewish people are paying for till today
I think most people understand that this was a victory for feminism not a victory for justice.. President Katsav was found guilty by the media before his trial even started. To the media this whole affair was only about ratings. And what better way to procure ratings then to to promote feminism while at the same time bringing shame to the former President of Israel..This trial was a joke.
I don’t understand.
Where is the outrage?
Here is a frum man, wrongly convicted and no protests, no appeals, no calls for pidyon shevuyim
Why has there not been more attention to this?
Because he is as innocent as hell freezes over sharon/katzav they are paying a price for gush katif.
#3 do u read VIN news ?read #1 for your answer