Israel Jails Arab for 'Sex Through Fraud'

An Israeli court has sentenced Sabbar Kashur, a 30-year-old Arab man, to 18 months in prison for rape by deception after he told a woman he was Jewish and then had consensual sex with her. Kashur, who is married with children, says he met the woman as he exited a grocery store. An Israeli justice says rape should be imposed whenever a “person does not tell the truth regarding critical matters to a reasonable woman, and as a result of misrepresentation she has sexual relations with him” However, men who have misrepresented themselves have typically been convicted of fraud.