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Serious Crimes Case (Center) 16924-10-22 State of Israel v. Iman Musrati - part 58

January 21, 2026
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Moreover, the WhatsApp application in this subscription was specifically supplemented with additional protection in the form of a fingerprint, which the circumstances prove was the defendant's fingerprint, as he himself confirms in retrospect, although he claims that it was introduced at a later stage.  And now, on the day of the murder, in the midst of the surveillance of the deceased at his workplace in Holon, a verbal response was sent from the 685 subscriber via WhatsApp to the standard greeting of Wasfi, the defendant's friend, even though Wasfi's subscriber is not identified by name on the device.  It should be said that only the defendant, himself and no one else, could have logged into WhatsApp and read the message.  Only he and no one else could answer her.  Only he, who knew Waspe and was in friendly contact with him, replied to the statement, since no other person would have even thought of replying to a casual message from an anonymous number during an operational activity to monitor the deceased.

Beyond what is necessary, but in the same context, the picture is complemented by the fact that during the relevant hours, and in contrast to the defendant's typical patterns of use of his phones, and especially in the 401 subscriber, the other devices used by him are in complete silence.  Not only does he not make outgoing calls, but incoming calls go unanswered, throughout the morning, even though some of them originate from close family members.  These facts complete the evidentiary picture in the sense that while the evidence detailed earlier testifies to the fact that the defendant was in the Mitsubishi vehicle at the relevant hours and used the operational subscription 685, the rest of the devices in his possession, and especially the 401 subscription, which is known to everyone as his main and characteristic subscriber, was not taken with him as usual, but rather left it behind in the family compound, in an attempt to disguise his involvement in the acts.

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