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Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for the reading of his sentence after appealing his conviction for rape and other sexual assault charges on November 10, 2011. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Israel's Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the rape conviction of former president Moshe Katsav, who was sentenced to seven years.
The three justices on Thursday rejected "alternative scenarios" put forward by Katsav, and ruled that he was guilty of rape, Israel's army radio reported.
In August, Katsav, 65, appealed against his conviction in December, 2010, on charges of raping a former employee in the 1990s, when he was a minister, and the sexual assault of two women during his presidential tenure between 2000 and 2007.
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