Israel’s former President Moshe Katsav has been convicted of rape by a court in Tel Aviv and could go to jail. He was found guilty of raping an employee in the 1990s when he was tourism minister and 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. Moshe Katsav was elected as the president in July 2000, and resigned in July 2007. While his resignation caused shock across Israel, it had limited political consequences.