The witness, Mr. Porat: Yaakov, a nice French guy.
Adv. Gerson: Jacob Gorst?
The witness, Mr. Porat: Yes, nice guy. And we came with Patel's group and they said that the property was rented and that it could not be rented out and there was nothing to be done. And the request I remember we were in some restaurant And they just didn't agree to give it to us, even we had a client who wanted the property and after a few months we approached again and again and we couldn't, The only thing we asked for is that as soon as there is an option to rent it if there is a We saw from the outside from the windows that the property was empty, such a property in Tel Aviv is usually not empty, it was just completely abandoned. And after a few months, I don't remember how many, six months, seven months, X months, in the heart of the Corona heart, the offices were really dead in Tel Aviv, they turned And they said they had finished a court proceeding, I don't remember saying that
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I think that from the stage we approached the whole meeting to the stage when they were even ready to negotiate, many months passed
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"The only thing I remember is that they didn't want to rent us the property because they were scared, they were afraid of it, we wanted the property so much, it's an amazing property in Ramot, it's the second building in Tel Aviv, the second in all of Tel Aviv since 1920 and something that we agreed to sign for everything. We knew there was an event, it didn't endanger us in terms of the fact that the property was empty, I took assets in bankruptcy, the property didn't invest a penny in it, it's not that I took it and dismantled it to someone. So we agreed to what they wrote. But I don't remember you, you're getting me into a dispute I don't know what happened exactly, I know there were all kinds of stipulations that we would be able to take the property only if and if and if and if and when these conditions matured and that's from the landlord's point of view and not from our point of view only then we took it, I would also take it today after 5 years it doesn't matter as if...