As for the planning, Defendant 1 denied Defendant 2's claim in his interrogations that he had planned in advance to kill the deceased and even equipped himself with a sock for that purpose, and emphasized that if he had planned to murder the deceased, he would not have equipped himself with a sock but rather with an assault weapon; rejected defendant 2's claim that he planned to bury the deceased; claimed that if they had planned the event in advance, they would have acted differently and not made the mistakes that led to their arrest; He reiterated that both of them lied during the interrogation and that each of them tried to remove himself from the file (pp. 337-338, 381-382, 388-390, 396, 421). Regarding the telephone conversation between him and defendant 2 before the incident, he claimed that it was intended to check whether the deceased had relatives in Israel who might take revenge on them after beating the deceased and stealing his drugs, and did not attest to a plan to murder him; And that if they had planned to murder him in advance, they would not have had to fear his family (pp. 336-337, 384, 396, 410-411). Regarding the fact that they went to the forest without their mobile phones, he claimed that since they planned to commit a criminal offense of drug-related violence, he did not want it to be recorded; and that he lied when he placed the blame for this on defendant 2 (pp. 383, 412). When asked why they changed their clothes before the event, he replied that they did not want to go to the forest in work clothes (pp. 383-384).
Defendant 1 further claimed that the evening before the incident he smoked from the drugs that the deceased had brought him, and after defendant 2 arrived at him they sat together with his neighbor and his partner, smoking drugs and drinking vodka. In his cross-examination, he claimed in this context that they did not call an ambulance and did not act properly after the deceased died, both because of the pressure they were under and because of the drugs and alcohol they consumed (pp. 333-334, 404).