The Israeli actor Moshe Ivgy, who was sentenced last month to six months of community service and a fine for indecent assault, appeals the sentence as well as his conviction.
The state had asked for 15 months in prison for Ivgy, and women’s organizations had bemoaned the sentence as a disgrace.
He was originally accused of harassing six women who worked with him on the sets of various films, TV shows and plays.
The women told the Walla news site of private rehearsals in which Ivgy would force himself on them, often insisting on unnecessary rehearsing of intimate scenes, and kissing them against their will.
The charges against Ivgy were filed in 2018, with prosecutors saying they found sufficient evidence that he had exploited his status to commit indecent acts and sexually harass four women in 2012 and 2013, some of them at his workplace.
He had faced four counts of indecent acts and three of sexual harassment, but the Haifa Magistrate’s Court only convicted Ivgy of one count of indecent assault, citing insufficient evidence in acquitting him of the other charges.
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