Plaintiff 3 spoke with the deceased from time to time.
It is evident that the relations with the other plaintiffs' children were loose and distant, but not disconnected, and that the distance stemmed from their past charges and not from the defendants' actions.
The plaintiffs' testimonies revealed negative memories of childhood in relation to the deceased's abusive behavior and actions towards them.
- Plaintiff 1 testified about the difficult life as a child in the shadow of the deceased: "We were beaten to death by him as children, he would break his mother's teeth, he would forcibly hospitalize her, he would burn plaintiff 2's fingers with a burner, all kinds of things when I left and went back to live with my grandparents, so people say how lucky you were, from the moment I arrived at the kibbutz in the eighth grade I only went to psychologists all these years, Do you understand?" (p. 78, s. 33 to p. 79, s. 2). and that she had strong feelings for her late father until she invited him to her wedding (p. 79, paras. 3-8):
"Adv. D. Gilad: You hated your father so much that you didn't even invite him to your wedding, right?
Witness: I'll explain.
Adv. D. Gilad: True or not?
Witness: Yes, but I invited the defendant because I was on good terms with her and I didn't want to invite him because I had a lot of baggage."
She also confirmed that she was not in contact with the deceased from 2013 to 2019 (pp. 72, 34-35), and later claimed that she did not want his closeness, and only towards the 2010s would he occasionally call her and they would meet (pp. 78, 29-31). and that her father was an "abominable" figure and had bad feelings for him (p. 78, 9).
- Plaintiff 3 in paragraph 7 of the affidavit described her difficult childhood in the shadow of her late father: "I was exposed to very harsh scenes that no child wants to experience."
In her testimony, she said that she was in contact with the deceased when she lived next to him, brought him food on Fridays, took him shopping, and he told her when the defendants came to visit him: "He would tell me that now they came, so I was informed when they were coming, when they were going." (p. 95, paras. 32-33). She testified that the deceased was neglected", people from Ramat Yishai would pick him up from the David brothers from the supermarket and take him home because he was lying in the street" (p. 96, 16-17).