It appears from the compilation that at the time of the examination carried out by the defendant, in relation to the details of the Mitsubishi vehicle from which the plates were copied, there was no advertising advertisement regarding this vehicle on the Yad 2 website, so that the defendant's version in this context does not correspond to the facts, and the manner in which the defendant obtained the details of that vehicle remained shrouded in mystery. The fog thickened in light of the version of Ahmad Musrati, who testified on behalf of the defense, and for the first time gave a suppressed version, which even did not match the defendant's version. Initially, Ahmad testified that he and Muhammad asked the defendant to place an advertisement for them on Facebook for the sale of a white Mitsubishi car with faults, in order to purchase it and use it to "tidy" up the stolen vehicle they had brought into Israel [transcript of February 19, 2025, at pp. 251-256]. Ahmad further claimed, in complete contradiction to the defendant's claim that he had never seen the Mitsubishi, that he and Muhammad showed the defendant the stolen Mitsubishi so that he would know which model to look for [ibid., at pp. 272-273]. Later in the cross-examination, the witness became involved in his answers regarding the question of whether or not they had finally purchased another vehicle, and only in response to instructive and closed questions in the cross-examination did he testify that the purpose of the search was to locate a similar Mitsubishi license plate in order to duplicate the plates and install them on the stolen vehicle [ibid., at pp. 277-280].
In view of the discrepancies between the defendant's version and the testimony of the defense witness and between these versions and the objective evidence, as well as in view of the sweeping lack of confidence in the suppressed testimonies of all the defense witnesses, including the defendant, for reasons that will be presented at length below, we are remaining, at the end of the day, with the basic facts that have been proven and are not in dispute. These facts testify to the fact that on August 7, 2022, 19 days before the murder, and about a month after the stolen Mitsubishi was brought into Israel by the defendant's relatives, the defendant, using a subscription 685, performed a test on a dedicated application for checking vehicle details, using the license plate number 14-725-34, which was later duplicated and installed on the Mitsubishi on the day of the murder.