Not only has a group of leading Zionist rabbis come out for serial rapist and sexual offender former President Moshe Katzav, one of their number, Shlomo Aviner, has blamed the conviction on the fact that the former president was judged according to "non-Jewish laws, by a non-Jewish judge".
Turbulent priests like this one cannot be funded by the state.
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