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Katsav ‘depressed’ after verdict

Affiliates of former president say he canceled scheduled meeting with lawyers because he is ‘too upset to leave house’ after rape conviction, opting even to invite friends over to pray instead of heading to synagogue as usual

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Western Wall gets iPhone app

Judaism’s holiest prayer site can now be visited from anywhere in world

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Katsav conviction: Prosecution to seek significant jail time

Former president who was convicted of rape, sexual harassment expected to get jail time, but prosecution considers taking ‘heavy price’ he has already paid into account. Defense attorneys to stress ‘incitement campaign’

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UK cable in 1980 said Israel ready to use bomb

Former Ambassador Robinson told Foreign Office ‘if Israelis are to be destroyed, they will go down fighting this time’

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Shin Bet: 2010 decade’s calmest year

Security agency data reveal nine Israelis killed in 798 terror-related incidents this past year; calls Sinai Peninsula Gaza’s ‘backyard’

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Assange: I’ll reveal info that will spark Arab world coups

WikiLeaks founder tells Al Jazeera leaked documents in his possession show top Arab officials disclose sensitive information to CIA

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Netanyahu: Katsav conviction message to all women

PM says guilty verdict in rape case against former president sends message that ‘women have full rights over their bodies.’ Livni: Society must support those who have the courage to speak out

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’7 worst years of my life finally over’

Complainant who first exposed former President Moshe Katsav’s sex offences satisfied with verdict. ‘One could not have described what I went through more accurately,’ she says

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Swede sentenced to prison for Auschwitz sign theft

Krakow judge approves settlement between Anders Hogstrom and prosecutors, who say main motive of theft was financial

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Verdict shocks Katsav’s hometown

Some Kiryat Malachi residents say guilty verdict in rape case result of media hype, while others say ‘deep down they know the truth.’ Former president’s friend: Judges must have been drunk

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