Orly Revivo
She was not included in the indictment issued against former
President Moshe Katsav, but A. from the President’s Residence, became the
leader in the fight against Katsav when she sat in front of cameras and with
her face hidden, gave witness, talking for nearly an hour.
Now, six years later, A. is again in the headlines,
appearing in a new film directed by Anat Goren, and set to broadcast on Channel
10 in the coming weeks.
Her face and name, hidden for so long, are now both
public, and her experiences with Katsav, once her testimony, have now become
her story.
“He leaned me back on the desk,” she said, “I said to him,
‘Moshe, I don’t want this! I don’t want this!’ I remember I just cried. Clothes
came off … there was full … rape. He always threatened, ‘If you make even a
small sound, I will push the alarm button and tell the security that you tried
to attack me.’"
Revivo related a conversation she had with Gila Katsav, the
wife of the former president. “I called (Gila) when I was in the US, she began
to cry. She said to me, ‘What, you too?’ I forgive you.'"
In a press conference which took place several years ago,
Revivo gave details regarding what took place at the President’s Residence.
"Moshe Katsav is a rapist. Moshe Katsav is a serial sex offender, he's
perverted. He is an unstable figure and no one can tell me otherwise,"
Revivo said.
“It began with telephone calls, ‘Have you woken up this
morning? What are you going to wear this morning? Maybe wear a skirt? A skirt
with no underwear? You amaze me, I dreamt about you last night while I was
having sex with my wife, Gila. You are a sexy woman,” she quoted Katsav as
saying.
Revivo also said, "This is a man who every morning
would sit there at his desk and take out his penis and stroke it and then ask
me to sit beside him and touch it."
"I struggled to get free but failed, I just felt
completely paralyzed. He slammed me into the corner of the table with his hands
pinning down mine.
He opened the clasp of my pants, I tried to move but
couldn't, he's a very strong man, people don't know him. He dropped his pants
and had full intercourse with me," she said.
During the period
when Revivo’s name was censored, rumors tied her to soccer player Haim Revivo,
but the two have no familial relationship.
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