It also emerged from Wasfi's statements to the police, after examining his phone, that the last voice conversation between him and the defendant, with subscriber 685, took place on 12 August 2022 [in fact, there were 7 conversations between them that day, all from the defendant to Wasfi - P/83], and subsequently WhatsApp correspondence was conducted between the defendant in subscriber 685 and Wasfi on 14 August 2022, 20 August 2022, 22 August 2022 and 23 August 2022. As part of those correspondences, Wasfi sent stylish greetings, decorated with flowers, in Arabic, to which the defendant sometimes responded with a verbal greeting such as "Good morning, brother." According to the witness, both in his statement and in his testimony, it never happened that he called one of the defendant's numbers and someone else answered. In response to the defense attorneys' questions in the cross-examination in court, Wasfi even emphasized that "there is no way that anyone else received the messages from me and answered me... The coach has personal affairs and no one plays on his phone" [Transcript of May 15, 2024, at p. 190].
Now we arrive at the day of the murder, Friday, August 26, 2022, and another correspondence between him and subscriber 685 is recorded on WhatsApp's phone. First, at 6:52 a.m., Waspi sends the 685 subscriber, as is his custom, a stylish greeting, decorated with roses, in Arabic, which means "Happy Friday." In response, at 11:40 a.m., a reply is received from subscriber 685 with the words "Ahla Burek" [and there is no dispute that this is a disruption, and the intention was to reply with the blessing "Ahla Boker" - H.T.). This correspondence is documented and anchored not only in the screenshots from Vesefi's phone, as part of the appendices to his statement P/146B, but also in the unloading of the defendant's Samsung A32 device, in the chapter dealing with the WhatsApp correspondence of subscriber 685 [P/99 - Part Two], and in fact is not in dispute.
It is worth mentioning here that at 11:40 on the day of the murder, as explained above, Subscriber 685 is located in the industrial zone in Holon, inside the Mitsubishi vehicle, which repeatedly circles the deceased's place of work, and waits for him to leave back in the direction of Lod. In other words, the subscriber is being held by someone who is in the midst of an unusual and stressful operational event, which will end a little more than an hour later in the deadly incident in Ben Gurion Square in Lod. Under these circumstances, the possibility that another person, who is not the defendant, would bother to respond verbally to a casual message sent many hours earlier, from an unidentified number, to a telephone that is not his own, and which he uses as a purely operational device for his involvement in the murder, seems very imaginary.