Kiryat Malachi – Former President Moshe Katsav, who was found guilty of two counts of rape on Thursday, prayed at a synagogue in his hometown of Kiryat Malachi Saturday evening.
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Katsav, who frequents the synagogue regularly, apparently made some of the other worshippers uncomfortable. “He was quiet and appeared sad,” one of them told Ynet. “It was an awkward situation; only a few people spoke to him.”
The residents of Kiryat Malachi were split over the guilty verdict. Some supported Katsav and claimed he was innocent, while others said many people knew he was guilty but kept silent.
“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” one resident said.
Another resident said filing an appeal would only make things worse for Katsav. “We were surprised that the court convicted him on all counts,” he said.
first off, I’m female, so I wanna make that clear before I say the following: we weren’t there. we don’t know what happened. and in Israel they know how to pull conspiracies to make people look bad for political reasons. But for any of us to judge from the media and the uber-leftist Israeli Supreme Court both institutions which are comprised of reshaim lgamrei is really not possible for anyone with half a brain. We do not know. We were not there. This is not ours to judge. It could have gone either way.
I agree with you completely, you’ll never see someone like Ehud Barak or Shimon peres or any of their left wing cronies be indicted for anything…..
As usual, if a degenerate or a criminal — even a convicted one — wears a kippah or a hat, a large percentage of the frum community refuses to believe he did anything wrong (or, as I’m coming more and more to suspect, knows it’s true but doesn’t care, since it’s “us” versus “them”). Here in America, every time a Rubashkin or a Balkany is convicted of crimes, we cry “anti-Semitism.” In Israel we cry “anti-rightism.” And we wonder why the vast majority of non-frum Jews and non-Jews don’t take us seriously; in fact, view us as whining hypocrites?