Cross-examination
- The defense attorney argued that the examination carried out by the witness was not professionally correct. When asked why he was preferable to a certified building engineer (the defendant), he explained that he was not superior to anyone, but went up to the roof and measured the floor with a basic measurement that does not require degrees (p. 669). At this stage, the defense argued that the witness had errors in the measurement, and that his measurement did not include the entire area of the work carried out in the project. However, the defense attorney did not explicitly specify what the measurements should have included and said that this would be presented in the framework of the defense case – something that was not ultimately done (p. 670).
- With regard to Exhibit A/115 (Measurement of the Roof Areas at Abu Kabir), in the first sub-chapter the witness deleted the amount of 48 m.a. and corrected it to 30 m.a. The witness confirmed that if the calculation had included the lawyer's room, the amounts would have been correct (p. 678). The witness replied that he had measured the visitors' roof (31 square meters) and the roof of the entrance complex (21 square meters), but that document A/116 refers only to the visitors' roof, without an entrance complex (p. 678).
Re-investigation
- With regard to the calculation of P/115 and P/116, the witness explained that even if he included the roof of the entrance complex as part of the budget assessment (whose title refers only to the visitors' roof), when one roof area is about 30 square meters and the other is about 20 square meters, the calculation of the works on both roofs will come out at NIS 20,000 instead of NIS 12,000 (p. 690).
Claims Exhibits
- The accuser submitted many exhibits, including transcripts of wiretapping conversations between the defendant and the various parties involved in this charge: Arik, Doron, Bezov and the defendant. Some of the exhibits were mentioned above in the framework of the prosecution's testimonies. Many prosecution exhibits will be reviewed as part of the defendant's cross-examination, below.
The Haganah Affair