In addition, in addition to a detailed description of the travel routes that the author of the report envisioned, the report also includes many dozens of still photographs, taken from the original videos, documenting the vehicles that are the subject of the report at the relevant sites throughout the morning hours, in a manner that allows the court to give an unmediated impression of the quality of the videos, and the ability to identify the vehicles and the locations in which they were observed. The high quality of the photographs and the multitude of images, some of which also follow one after the other at intervals of a few seconds, allow for an almost continuous tracing of the described travel route, and in a certain sense constitute a kind of peek into the missing videos and a suitable, if not complete, replacement for the videos themselves.
Finally, the viewing report was not presented to us in a vacuum, but alongside a wide range of additional evidence, which is consistent with what is described in the viewing report, verifying its reliability and strengthening its weight. Thus, for example, as will be presented below, there is a complete correspondence between the locations of the vehicles described in P/45 and the telephone locations found in those vehicles. In addition, there is a correlation between the route of the vehicles, for example towards and back from Route 40 between 7:35 and 7:45, and the footage on Ein Hentz cameras at the Ginton junction, at the Lod interchange, and later on Route 44 as well. Similarly, there is a correspondence between P/45 and the unlost visual footage of the Toyota's departure, a few minutes before it arrived in the area, from the direction of the gas station. In addition, in the comprehensive report P/72, a number of footage is noted by police cameras that identify license plates, in places that correspond to the documentation included in the P/45 report.
The overall result is that in addition to the defect in the conduct of the investigation team, due to which the original videos were lost, without the ability to recover, so that the original evidence was not presented for our perusal, and in its place the viewing report P/45 was submitted as secondary evidence, it is admissible evidence whose weight, in the special circumstances of this proceeding, is considerable. As stated, at the end of the day, the defense did not raise any argument in this context in its summaries, even though it was given every opportunity to do so, and it seems that in view of all that has been said above, it is certainly possible to rely on the description given in P/45 and to establish findings on the basis of it. I will now return to the sequence of events, and I will discuss the second pulse of time.