Year: 2021

Today’s GUEST POST courtesy our Legal Correspondent, F.S. Zulatow

This entire affair is so riddled with contradictions, mendacity and dissembling, it’s hard to know where to begin.

So let’s just start with the following –

1. How do police justify withholding medical attention to the survivors of a car accident for over an hour?
2. And why did they refuse to allow ZAKA responders to remove Ahuvya’s body from the scene for at least FOUR HOURS after that.
3. And why all the foregoing against the repeated pleadings of the boys to save their friend who was trapped beneath the car?
4. How do police justify a charge of ‘reckless driving’ resulting in death against a dead man and his friends – who were rammed from behind by a police vehicle at high speed?
5. How do they justify their (2nd, altered) account of the ‘accident’ as one in which the boys’ car slammed into them – the police vehicle – thereby causing the boys’ car to catapult wildly and roll off the road?
6. How do they explain the initial account that specified there was NO CONTACT between the vehicles – that the boys’ car spontaneously lost control and flipped repeatedly, landing 30 meters from the highway?
7. Who was the officer who – according to the boys’ testimony – arrived at the overturned car and yelled, “wow, wow, you really messed up their vehicle.”  Has he been identified?  Has he denied making the statement?  Did he, indeed, witness the event?  Has he been questioned under caution regarding what he saw and said?

   Share Save the Hilltop Youth!

8. Why was there such a manic necessity to keep a high-profile member of Knesset (Bezalel Smotrich) so far from the crash scene?
9. Why was assistance from a group of well-trained IDF soldiers with medical expertise who arrived minutes after the crash rebuffed!?
10. Why was there a need to handcuff the injured youths, one to the next, before they were extricated from their overturned vehicle!?
11. What happened to the police dash-cam that recorded the entire chase, and pre-chase maneuverings?
12. What happened to the nearby Mekorot Water cameras that also captured the entire event, and why were IDF security cameras in the area tampered with?
13. What happened to cameras from the Arab village of Taibeh, which point directly from their high mountings on the community’s chicken coops directly toward the area of the crash?  Why were they not immediately sequestered and scanned for evidence?  Where are they now, and who had access to them in the interim?
14. Why were the officers’ mobile phones not immediately collected?
15. Why were their call logs not accessed?
16. Why was this trove of evidence not immediately sought – or, more to the point, why did it remain in the public domain for so long, where anyone might have done as he pleased with it – including tampering with or even destroying it?
17. Separately, where is the Arab who supposedly called police to report the boys’ alleged rock-throwing?