Israel’s Supreme Court agreed to reexamine evidence in a sexual assault conviction against former Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai. Mordechai asked the court to reopen the case after one of his accusers said that, in retrospect, she did not consider Mordechai’s actions sexual harassment, the daily Ha’aretz reported.
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