In the same regard, it is clear that the defendant's answers during his cross-examination, when he tried to explain his statements in this context, are puzzling answers that have no basis. Yes, the defendant contradicted himself and did not know how to provide satisfactory explanations regarding this issue. (See, for example, pp. 540-541).
The defendant stated in his testimony before us that he stayed with S. that night. When confronted with S.'s claim, which indicates that he and the defendant did not meet at the hours that the defendant referred to that evening (and this is contrary to the defendant's claim), then the defendant claimed that S. had lied (p. 503, line 1).
The accuser interrogated the defendant at length in this context and confronted him with the findings in her possession, including the fact that the defendant sent text messages to S. and even spoke to him on the phone, no less than six times, all in the same period of time between 23:38 and 00:11 of that night. In this regard, I did not find it necessary to expand the discussion, since this fact is not critical for our case, since it took place after the murder. Yes, there is no argument that the defendant left the house.
In the context of the messages, the accuser also referred to a report by Kobi Forleiter, which shows that the defendant deleted all the text messages that were between him and S., as well as the phone conversations with his mother. According to the accuser, this constitutes suspicious behavior (p. 542).
Later, at 00:15, the defendant called A.H. and asked him to drive him to his uncle, N. According to the defendant, he asked A.H. to drive him to his uncle to take his bicycle, while Ophir testified that he drove the defendant to his uncle. However, he did so because the defendant wanted to sleep there (p. 505, lines 14-19). In this context as well, the defendant claimed that A.H. He lied. In the continuation of his cross-examination, when the defendant referred to the contradiction between his testimony and that of A.H. On this point, he said: "So he probably didn't understand me correctly, I told him to take me to Nadav" (p. 517, line 12).