According to him, on Friday mornings he does not answer the phones at all, not even to family members, and only returns to them later, and only when he is at home [ibid., p. 479]. Against the background of this claim, the defendant was confronted in the cross-examination with media studies according to which he had more than once had conversations on Friday mornings, for example, on August 5, 2022 and August 12, 2022, and gave explanations that were inconsistent with his firm version that he did not answer calls on Fridays. For example, in relation to the conversation on August 5 at 9:57 a.m., during which he was in Tel Aviv, he explained that he would actually take a phone with him to Tel Aviv or Ramat Gan, unlike other Fridays when he was staying in the Ramla area. With regard to the incoming calls that were answered on the morning of August 12, he found it difficult to provide an explanation and replied that it was apparently from "important" people to whom he was required to answer [ibid., pp. 551-552]. When the plaintiffs continued to present him with a wide range of conversations he had had on the Fridays preceding the murder, from 29 July 2022 to 19 August 2022, the defendant claimed that he did not remember the circumstances, confirmed that he had no explanation, and reiterated that he only issued calls and did not answer incoming calls [transcript of 25 September 2024 at pp. 660-664].
Indeed, a review of the raw information included in the communications studies for the various subscribers, and especially for the 401 subscriber, shows that in addition to the many calls that are not answered by the defendant, it is possible to locate activity on his phones, every Friday, in the morning and afternoon, in a way that does not fit with any of the parts of his developing version, which begins with leaving the phone in his home sweepingly and the absence of any use, and continues with the absence of an answer to incoming calls. However, with initiated outgoing calls, and ending in the absence of any explanation for cases in which responses to incoming calls are explicitly documented on such dates [for more details, beyond the raw material P/73, see the Insights Report P/187 - sections 1 and 3(a)-(h) of the chapter dealing with subscriber 401 and sections 5(e)-(11) and 6 of the chapter dealing with subscriber 337].