The aforesaid is reinforced by the defendant's manipulative manipulation between versions and contradictory claims during his testimony in court until he confesses to making a statement before the court.
The Defendant's Testimony
- 33. The defendant's testimony in court left a bad and unreliable impression, to say the least. The defendant zigzagged between versions and contradictory claims during two sessions in which his testimony was heard.
His version was inconsistent and changed both in relation to his response to the indictment, and in relation to what he gave between his testimony at the first session (29 May 2025) and his testimony at the second session (7 September 2025) and in each individual testimony.
As the accuser claims, throughout his testimony in court, the defendant frequently answered questions, and it is not for nothing that the court was required to comment to him on this matter more than once (p. 130, s. 18; p. 136, s. 28; p. 137, s. 12; p. 146, s. 31; p. 191, s. 26).
The defendant was often naïve, evasive, and clever in his answers: "I don't know," "I don't remember," "maybe," "more or less" (p. 137, para. 12), and when he answered directly, his answers were vague, twisting between unfounded explanations and contradictory versions of verified acts with objective evidence, which he also testified about and described in his interrogations with the Shin Bet and the police.
- 34. The following are the main points of his convoluted testimony on the issues relevant to the questions in dispute:
As for the consumption of ISIS content, in complete contradiction to his response to the indictment, in his testimony in court on May 29, 2025, the defendant admitted that he had consumed different appeal content in an obsessive and continuous manner (pp. 102, 157-158, 181, 183); admitted that he had watched videos documenting beheadings; explosions and shooting of live people (ibid., pp. 158, 181); admitted that he had downloaded instructional files for the manufacture of explosives and explosives to his mobile phone, and admitted that he had downloaded dozens of issue files from a different 2024 newspaper (ibid., p. 165);