At the same time, we noted above that Shachar's testimony was, in general, inconsistencies and sometimes contradictions, and that more than once the testimony was not coherent (see paragraph 49 above). As far as the indictment in question and the Oranim Project are concerned, Shahar claimed both in his interrogation and in his testimony, that he did not remember the Oranim Project and that he did not remember the details related to the Oranim Project, and it was given the impression that some of the things he gave were based to a certain extent, sometimes to a large extent, on real-time documents presented to him (e.g., P/557(5), S. 421-424; S. 432-433; S. 445-446; S. 484-486; S. 487-487; S. 543-545; S. 576-578; S. 579-587; some of his answers were given on the basis of assumptions he made in light of the documents presented 36, for example, s. 494-497; S. 524-526, S. 592-596; S. 597-599; S. 608-615; Although Shachar remembered a case of coordination with Shochat even before he was presented with the documents that are the subject of the indictment, paras. 549-551).
In this context, there is also weight to the fact that Shachar was not presented with Shohat's second email in his interrogation, in which he offered a Matrix in the sum of $395,860 (P/132). This is a substantive document that, in the circumstances of the case, can have implications for the question of Shohat's consent to coordination. In this state of affairs, it seems that Shachar said what he said when a substantive document was not before him. This matter can have implications for the weight of his words.
Despite all of the above, I was not under the impression that Shachar's testimony regarding Shohat's consent was unreliable (some of the contradictions that Shohat pointed out in Shachar's remarks did not directly relate to the issue of coordination and were intended, it seems, to support Shachar's claim that there was no real feasibility of competition, including on the part of Matrix, in an attempt by Shachar to detract from the benefits of the coordination attributed to him. This includes the claim that Shochat did not know about the project at all and asked for Shakanevsky's permission to submit a proposal (P/557(5), paras. 544-549 (as opposed to P/95); that Shochat acted only to harm Harel (P/557(5), paras. 555-557), etc.; On the other hand, it is precisely the testimony of Shachar and his claim that he had done a "great injustice" to Shochat and that in retrospect after seeing the Matrix proposal (P/132) he understood that Shochat "worked on it"And he tried to win the project – that is, things he said in an attempt to benefit Shochat and in order not to get him into trouble – can support the fact that according to the understanding of Shachar Shochat he agreed, that there was an agreement, even if Shochat did not fulfill it, p. 3555, s. 25 - p. 3556, s. 17, even though later on he had reservations about the aforesaid, p. 3556, s. 25, p. 3557, s. 3, and see also: p. 3579, s. 27-28 (ibid., in relation to the online pricing)).