"Today it will happen": Until the state revealed the preparations for the liquidation of a restaurant in Netanya

The state witness in the case of Deborah Hirsch's murder, Tal Corcus and Elisha Sabah, in which the perpetrator Yaniv Zagori, was accused, told how the two attempted assassinations that preceded the Sabah murder in 2017 were ordered by him. The witness, whose identity was banned for publication, revealed in court how he assisted investigators to find out what they knew about his moves

"Today it will happen": Until the state revealed the preparations for the liquidation of a restaurant in Netanya

In Be'er Sheva District Court, testimony of the state witness continued on Monday in the murder of Deborah Hirsch, Tal Corcus and Elisha Sabah. After the first part of the testimony in the case, in which the perpetrator is accused of giving rise to Zagori and other criminals, the witness said his identity was banned from advertising that whoever sent him to harm the Sabah is Zagori in 2017, today at length elaborated on the chain of events and attempts that preceded his elimination.

"Nivi did not want to return to Israel because he thought there was a state witness in the case of Deborah (Corcus)," the witness told the witness stand. He said that Sabah's murder was preceded by two failed attempts. The first attempt, he claimed, was due to police presence at the scene. "Eric (Itel) went down with a gun from the vehicle and just passed a motorcycle of police by chance," he repeated. "I immediately warned him and he returned to the car." In the second round, the witness said that they had attached an IDF sabotage to Sabah's vehicle. "We arrived at his restaurant in Netanya to see where to place the luggage. Eric got out of the vehicle and placed it under his vehicle."

Blood, assassinations, death - silent: The collapse of crime organizations that ruled the south

"I offered myself." The perpetrator Yaniv Zagori (Photo: Yehuda Lachiani, Maariv)

Yaniv Zagori (Photo: Reproduction, Yehuda Lachiani, Maariv, Walla System! NEWS)

During the second attempt, the witness felt that something was going to go wrong. "I was worried about the elapsed time and also that the remote control battery battery could run out," he argued in court. "When Elisha left the restaurant for a car, we followed him. I tried to push the button a few times on the button that activates the cargo but it didn't work. In the end - after realizing it wasn't working - I took the cargo off the car and hid it. We only succeeded for the third time."

During his testimony, the witness stated that he did not know Sabah prior to his assassination. "Eric told me his murder was closed a year ago with Nivi, but he had no one to go with," he said. "He did not trust the people of Beersheba. I turned to Nibi and offered myself, I complied with his request. Eric explained to me that 'Elisha is a son of a bitch' and that he had plagued his brother Adam Ital in another affair, and that he brought witnesses from the territories against my brother."

"I invented there for researchers"

Later in the discussion he talked about the background to the successful assassination, and detailed a series of moves he made, including with the police, to understand what the researchers know about the assassination attempts and to implement similar plans. He testified that in his past he had many explosives. "I had some conflicts in the north and I wanted to hurt these people," he repeated. "I said I would do it under the nose of the police. I put the police to sleep. I wanted to hurt someone specifically and Michael Moore prevented me. Another person I wanted to hurt - went to jail."

"We were waiting at his restaurant in Netanya." The 2017 murder scene

The shooting scene on Weizman Street in Netanya April 6, 2017 (Photo: Walla system! NEWS)

As for Sabah's assassination, the state witness claimed that he had passed on the information about the cargo hidden to police to understand if they knew anything about the attempt to kill Sabah. "I gave police information about the cargo because I wanted to understand if they knew anything," he said. "They told me, 'Give us a name, who brought the luggage.' I didn't want to give them a name, so they didn't take the luggage. Only after they insisted on inventing there, I lied to them. I wanted them not to be associated with this luggage."

On the day of the liquidation, he said, he assured Zagori that the murder of Sabah would be completed. "That day I left Ashkelon for Sde Dov, flew to Eilat, met with people there," he said. "I went back to Sde Dov and drove to Michael Moore's house. There, I talked to Nivi in ​​a video call and told him that today would happen."

After the conversation, the witness told the state that he went to Netanya to Sabah's business. "I traveled with Eric to Netanya and see that he (Sabah) is there," he repeated. "I determined with him that I was picking him up from the scene after the murder. I went to see the murder and didn't give it up." He heard the shooting from his car. "When he came back he told me he got five bullets in his chest ... from the moment we arrived until we left it was fifty minutes."

"Nibi was paranoid"

In the first part of the hearing last week, the witness named Zagori as the person who commissioned the murder. "Nibi was paranoid," he said. "He used code words all the time: Michael Moore read oil and murders read livelihoods. He once told me in conversations that I had three livelihoods that needed to be addressed. He meant Tal Corcus, Eliezer Tshuva and Elisha Sabah." During the hearing, Zagori shouted at the witness: "Killer", and the witness answered "I murdered for you".

More in Walla! NEWS

Murdered by Zagori's instruction. Corcus (Photo: News 13)

Offender Tal Corcus (Photo: News 10, screenshot)

The indictment attributes to the defendants felony murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, conspiracy to commit crime, weapons offenses, disruption of court proceedings and other offenses. For years, Zagori was considered the head of the great crime organization in the South, with his right hand being Corcus. Zagori fully trusted Corkus until the latter stopped and opened his mouth against the "boss" sent in 2009 to seven years in prison following testimony. In 2016, about six months before Corcus was liquidated, while he was in custody for violent offenses against his divorced Deborah Hirsch, the latter was shot dead in the eyes of her children in Beer Sheva. It is suspected that Hirsch was killed for revenge for Zagori's overthrow by Corcus.

In June 2017, on suspicion, Corcus, who was then a state witness, was assassinated by Zagori's revenge for having previously framed him. A few months later Sabah was killed, the man who led to the conviction of Adam Ital, Zagori's "hired killer." Following Sabah's testimony, Ital was sent to prison. During the investigation of the present case, a close associate of Zagori was drafted as a state witness and allegedly criminalized the organization's leaders after being present at the killings and knowing about the planning that preceded them.

Info - Two suspected crime organizations in murder to state Tal Corcus (Photo: -, Walla system! NEWS)