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Serious Crimes Case (Haifa) 9375-05-21 State of Israel v. David Abu Aziz - part 58

March 24, 2026
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Before concluding this matter, we will make two additional comments.

Indeed, as the defense argued, there is a difference between the location indicated in the memorandum prepared by the investigator Arman (P/157) and the location recorded in the Ituran system at the relevant times.  However, the same memo noted that Arman had "pecked through Google's 'Maps' app" to the location where the shoes were found.  According to the general explanation received from Ituran about the vehicle's location data (P/450), the level of accuracy of the location depends, among other things, on the number of satellites actually received at the time of calculating the location.  Ituran's receiver receives the transmission data transmitted by 12 satellites, and calculates the location based on this input.  However, as the engineer Yaakov Suat (who edited document P/450) testified, the ability to receive broadcast data from 12 satellites does not mean that the data is actually received from all 12 satellites.  In fact, it is not possible to know at any given moment how many satellites the system received (June 14, 2023, p.  2610, Q.  5 onwards) when the location was calculated.  According to the engineer, the Ituran unit installed in the vehicle (the receiver) receives an average of 10 satellites, and in order to reach an accuracy level of 95%, it must receive at least three satellites in order to estimate an accurate location.  We cannot determine how the location is calculated in the Google Maps app, and it can be assumed that there is a difference between the receiver that is an Ituran unit and a mobile phone device and its ability to receive satellite transmission.  It is possible that the gap was due, among other things, to the ability of the mobile phone to input at the time of calculating the location.  In any event, Yaakov Suat was not asked in his testimony on this matter, no evidence was presented to us in this regard, and it is clear that we do not have sufficient tools for determining the source of the gap between the two points of interest.

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