Moshe Katsav

A parole board today rejected a request for early release for Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav, imprisoned since 2011 for rape and other sexual offences, officials said.

Israel's interior minister and vice-premier, Silvan Shalom, said on Sunday he was quitting his posts and leaving politics over media reports of sexual harassment and indecent assault.

Israel's prisons service says a fire has broken out at the facility where former President Moshe Katsav is serving time.

An Israeli court has convicted former President Moshe Katsav on two counts of rape.Thursday's conviction means Katsav will face a minimum of four years in prison. The verdict marks the climax of a four-and-a-half year saga that has riveted the nation as it watched its top citizen face the most serious charges ever leveled toward an Israeli public o...

A parole board today rejected a request for early release for Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav, imprisoned since 2011 for rape and other sexual offences, officials said.

Israel's interior minister and vice-premier, Silvan Shalom, said on Sunday he was quitting his posts and leaving politics over media reports of sexual harassment and indecent assault.

Israel's prisons service says a fire has broken out at the facility where former President Moshe Katsav is serving time.

An Israeli court has convicted former President Moshe Katsav on two counts of rape.Thursday's conviction means Katsav will face a minimum of four years in prison. The verdict marks the climax of a four-and-a-half year saga that has riveted the nation as it watched its top citizen face the most serious charges ever leveled toward an Israeli public o...