'Sex Rabbi' to hospital

jerusalem - 'Sex Rabbi' Eliezer Berland, who was convicted in Israel for sexual abuse, was transferred to a hospital. He has five of the eighteen-month prison sentence served.

Berland has cancer, Israeli media report. When he is released, he remains under house arrest at a hospital in Jerusalem.

The 80-year Berland was convicted in November after he had announced that he had raped two women.

He traveled before to stay all over the world in an effort from the hands of justice, after allegations of sexual abuse had accumulated against him. In addition, he also did our country, where he put everything upside down with his dog loyal supporters in a bungalow on Texel. He was eventually arrested in South Africa, which extradited last year to Israel.

The rabbi was also convicted of an attack on one of his supporters who had brought Berland of the abuse into the open. He had two other disciples to molest him instructions. Berland had, according to the deal he eventually signed with justice, to pay financial compensation.

Berland's leader Shuvu Banim, a Jewish Orthodox sect. For his confession he always denied all allegations of abuse. One of his lawyers argued that those were sheer nonsense, not least because he would be impotent.