First, it was proven that there was a motive for the murder, against the background of an ongoing bloody dispute between the defendant's family members and their associates, and the deceased's family members and their associates. Although no direct evidence was presented linking the defendant himself to the violent conflict, the very existence of a protracted violent conflict between his close family members and the family members of the deceased establishes the existence of a possible motive for his and others' joint activity to harm the deceased. Moreover, although the defendant claimed that he was not involved in any violent conflict, according to his own testimony, he himself was the victim of three or four assassination attempts in the period preceding his arrest, and it seems that these things speak for themselves.
Second, there is strong evidence linking the defendant to Mitsubishi, as well as to the murder plan, about three weeks before it was carried out. Thus, on August 7, 2022, 19 days before the murder, and about a month after the stolen Mitsubishi car was brought into Israel by the defendant's relatives, the defendant performed a check on a dedicated application to obtain vehicle details using a 685 subscription, using the license plate number 14-725-34, which was later duplicated and installed on the Mitsubishi on the day of the murder. The very search of such a vehicle attests to the defendant's prior knowledge of the characteristics of the stolen vehicle, which was used on the day of the murder. In addition, the proximity of the time of the search to the day of the murder, and the distance from the date when the stolen vehicle was brought in from Israel, support the assumption that the purpose of the search and the duplication of the plates was related to the murder plans. Despite the options given to him, both by the police and the court, to provide an innocent explanation for this evidence, the defendant was unable to provide any convincing explanation.