Israel’s attorney-general called for President Moshe Katsav to leave his official residence. Menachem Mazuz wrote to the Knesset legal counsel in a letter made public Tuesday that Katsav, who was suspended from office last week pending his expected prosecution on rape and other felony charges, should not remain in the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.
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