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Criminal Case (Be’er Sheva) 20958-08-24 State of Israel – F.M. v. Muhammad Azzam - part 44

April 30, 2026
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The defendant did not explain why he downloaded so many instruction files for the preparation of explosives, explosives and poisons, which he had no professional connection with, when a large part of them were password protected, and when he claimed that he did not read them, and his claim of curiosity zigzagged between reading a headline and only one first page, if at all.

The defendant writhed in his answers throughout his interrogation, and in particular in connection with the downloading and possession of instructional files for the preparation of explosives and toxins.  The defendant's answers clearly contradict his actions proven by objective evidence in the form of the dozens if not hundreds of content and files found on his mobile device, computer and iPod, as detailed above in detail.

The defendant, who did not know how to explain his extreme curiosity about the content of ISIS, especially when he was engaged in healing and compassion.

  1. Curiosity is usually broad, superficial, and transient. A curious person reads a little from here and a little from there.  The defendant's claim that the content of the appeal was different out of curiosity is unreasonable and cannot be reconciled with the obsessive consumption of an ideology from the Idas, as it was consumed.  It is also unlikely that this curiosity will be reconciled with 10 years of obsessive consumption alongside extreme hoarding that the defendant organized in folders arranged according to topics he had set up on his personal devices, and given that instruction files on explosives and toxins were kept under a secret code.

Intense and obsessive viewing of videos documenting the execution of people by IS operatives, whether by beheadings or shooting and other horrific acts of violence, which were stored on the defendant's personal devices, does not stem from "curiosity."

The systematic consumption of different Dar'ar content, combined with the systematic consumption and storage of operative manuals over the years, is not "curiosity".

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