Shohat objected to the submission of the online pricing outputs and claimed that the admissibility conditions had not been proven as required. I cannot accept these arguments. Indeed, the accuser did not bring a computer expert to testify. In the Supreme Court ruling to which Shohat referred, it was noted that where the record is a computer output, testimony from a computer expert is "frequently" required (Criminal Appeals Authority 3981/11 Sharvit v. State of Israel, at paragraph 9 of the judgment (July 5, 2012). However, it was not determined there that this is a condition without which there is no (see and compare: Class Action (Hai District) 14022-08-16 Glasberg v. Conference Information in a Tax Appeal at paragraph 16 of the judgment (December 10, 2019)). Ben Shmueli's testimony, both with regard to the manner in which the data was recorded automatically in real time, and with regard to the manner in which the system was locked against changes at the end of the pricing, and with regard to the adoption of protective measures, was orderly, reliable and not hidden. This is sufficient in the circumstances of the case. As mentioned above, the data of the online pricing outputs is also incorporated into the testimonies. Ben Shmueli is, as stated above, the CEO of the company that provides the online pricing system, he is an industrial and management engineer by training, and he is well acquainted with the system, its capabilities and the response it provides (p. 2318, paras. 1-3; p. 2347, paras. 5-11 regarding the speed of response; p. 2348, 1-4 regarding performance tests that they conducted). Ben Shmueli clearly testified that he would have known if there were complaints or allegations about material technical failures in the system (p. 2326, paras. 21-23). In the circumstances of the case, the fact that he did not know how to explain these and other technical details, or that he is not a development person, or an expert in communication infrastructures and cloud computing, does not change the overall picture.
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