“The boy was covered in blood and cried to heaven”: A chilling testimony was given this morning (Sunday) to the judges of the Be’er Sheva District Court, during a hearing at the evidentiary stage in the trial of Aviad Moshe, who is accused of attempting to murder his ex-wife, Shira Isakov. Although in recent days the defendant tried to evade his ex-wife. During the evidentiary and evidentiary phase of the trial, Moshe was forced to appear in court and be present at Shira’s testimony, entering the courtroom with his head covered, and refusing to answer reporters’ questions.
During the hearing, the prosecution played in court a half-hour recording, recorded by Moshe Aviad with his cell phone, of a very difficult and very violent argument between Shira and her husband. This argument probably preceded the stabbing incidents. During the recording, Iscove and Moshe looked down.
On the verge of tears, with her eyes lowered, Sarah began her testimony and revealed to the judges and attendees in the courtroom the mask of abuse she went through that horrible evening: “It was after I told him I was going north to my parents for the holiday. After an exchange of words between us. I said I could not stay with him anymore. 10 days before the incident I underwent a scrape. I had a hard time dealing with the loss of the fetus. The loss happened after Aviad was angry and shouted at me. I was angry and shouted back. After that, I had severe stomach pains and fell to the floor. “
“The day after that I wanted to go to the emergency room. He did not want to take the child out. So I went after. They said there was no pulse to the fetus. Four days after that I went through a scrape. I was home for a week and did not go to work. Friday came. And some days it was an exchange between us. There was no bride on his part about the loss of the fetus. He wanted twins right after. Before I go into the scraping he asks for twins. There was not really one second to the loss of the fetus and the feeling of how many days I am with a dead baby in my womb. On Thursday he sent me WhatsApp about someone who got pregnant “That’s not my story. He’s the one who destroyed and decided to bring his family’s quarrel home.”
Shira added in her testimony: “I sat seven. Because of the scraping and the death of the fetus. Just crying. On Thursday I already started cooking for the eve of the holiday. And on Friday I continued and Aviad went shopping with the boy. I asked for a special bottle of wine to have fun … Friday it started When he brought another wine. He said that nothing is good for you. Everything you have something to say. All kinds of unpleasant words. I said I understood your head. Let me finish cooking. We continued the day. I continued to cook. Aviad washed the car. Put in the pipe. “He went to the house and washed the floor. I asked him not to do it because there was a lot of water left and the child could slip. He got upset and shouted that even when I do something I am not happy.”
“Took me and threw me to the floor”
Shira went on to describe the course of the argument: “Actually we are starting .. he tells me something I tell him something. And it just intensifies. Then he comes and tries to belittle me and tell me how ugly I am and that I am like a 70 year old woman. Just trying to belittle me and show me how much I’m not successful and wrong. He came in front of my face in the kitchen and told me that. Then came the moment I say I can not hear these insults. I can not be with him at home three days in quarantine. I will go north to my parents. It will not be good for anyone “One of us stayed home together. I called my dad’s phone and told him I was coming. I took A. to change his diaper. Then when I went out to the next room to pick up a diaper bag I was on the phone with my parents, Aviad took me and grabbed me and threw me on the floor.”
Shira continued her testimony: “I told him – you promised not to touch me. I do not call the police. He took me and slapped me on the floor. Then I told him a second time that I was touching divorce. There is no power to stay longer. I went back to washing the child and I continue to be with my parents on the phone While taking the bag she put clothes for me and A. We went to his room to dress him. My bag was in a study. Aviad tried to hide it and put it under the crib. Aviad followed me. He probably wants to hear what I say to my parents. My clothes for the bag. I went back to the living room to get water bottles. Some books for the way he would have. I stood at the door and wanted to go out. And he would not let me out. He locked the door and closed the shutter and the window told me you were not going to join. I said you are not coming with me anymore Place”.
“He held my hands preventing me from getting to the door. My goal was to get out of the house. As they approached the door he locked the door and closed the shutter. When the boy got out of my hands I turned to grab him. And the first blow hit my head. And another and another. And many more and I shout. “And I ask him to stop … I screamed for him to stop and I apologized. I asked my father for help. They were on the line.”
“The boy screamed and shouted to heaven, I asked Aviad to hug and calm him”
Shira went on to unfold the mask of horrors she went through: “The boy screamed and cried to heaven. I asked him to be with the boy and take him and hug him and calm him down. The boy sat down next to me. It was all filled with my blood. I was on the floor. Just sat up and shouted to the sky and cried. At that time he keeps hitting me. Then he goes to the cutlery drawer and pulls out a knife. And I’m asking him not to do that. He tells me you will not be the child’s mother. You will not be the mother of a. He walks up to me and strangles me and says I will die. I understand in retrospect why he whispered. He strangled me with both his hands. I’m lying down he’s his eyes on me and he’s waiting for me to lose consciousness … he says: ‘so many blows to the head and she’s not dead yet’. I see his hatred in his eyes. And he shouts why the girl is not dead yet. ”
“He’s looking at me. I’m dying already, he shouted. Between and the neighbor who came too. He took out the knife before that and then started with the knife stabs. I told him stop I want to live. And he continued with the stabs. Then I remember the neighbors holding me and saying Soon the ambulance will arrive. Two neighbors came into the house from the screams and were next to me. I said I had no air and asked them to take care of the child. I felt I was already going to die and I had no strength and no air and nothing. They knocked on the door (the neighbors). He, Aviad, spoke “With her and closed the door again and then he went back to take care of me. To hit and stab while beating.
Poetry Judge: “What You Said Is Inspiring”
Later in the hearing, a very difficult recording was played from the defendant’s cell phone, which operated while stabbing her and hitting her in the head with the rolling pin. The recording was accompanied by loud screams of singing during the alleged assassination attempt, and at one point the judges stopped her playing. The head of the tribunal, Judge Yael Raz Levy, said: “I have heard difficult things, but I must say that it is not comfortable for us to hear it (in this forum), we will hear it later. We hear a very hard recording, screams, this is not the place We need to hear such a recording. ”
After the recording stopped, Shira continued her testimony: “The day before we corresponded on WhatsApp. I told him that what caused the abortion was the assault and shouting at me. We started correspondence, and he blames me and I blame him and his sisters. In response he blocked me on WhatsApp. I sent him an email later. Answered me. I sent him something else. In the evening he came home and everything was normal. Later I start cooking. I had someone’s wedding from work and he did not agree to go. He said I have nothing to go to someone’s wedding that is not a good friend. I wanted to go, but “I did not have the strength to quarrel with him about it. I said maybe he was right. I am 10 days after the abortion and maybe I should rest at home.”
After the testimony ended, Shira Isakov added a personal statement: “My whole head is sutured and I have a lot of pain. The eye socket is broken and the cornea is damaged. I am taking painkillers. The cheek will heal on its own. The jaw as well. The teeth are broken. “Dental implants. I am learning cardio and lung endurance so I can go back to running and walking. A broken hand and a severed finger. I am in physiotherapy, and twice a week I take A. for treatment, to a communication clinician. After the incident he stopped talking.”
At the end of the testimony, Judge Raz Levy told Shira that “what you said is inspiring.”
NAAMAT chairwoman Hagit Peer commented on the implications of Shira Isakov’s testimony on other women in Israel: “Shira Isakov’s courage can save the lives of many women in Israel. Without asking for it or wishing for it, Shira became the guardian of her sisters – about 200,000 women who are in the cycle of violence in Israel and see how she confronts the monster who tried to murder her. I have no doubt that in her actions she gives power to other women to say ‘so far’. ”
“Poetry was like a step away from becoming another name in dismal statistics”
The opening speech was delivered by the representative of the State Attorney’s Office, Adv. Meital Amuyal: The screams were from Shira Iscove. The crying of her little son was based on blood watching a horror play, watching his accused father try in every way possible to cause his mother’s death. At the same time, her parents are on the line a significant distance away in Carmiel ”
“In those moments Shira Isakov was like a step away from becoming another name in the grim statistics of women murdered by their spouses. A great miracle separated her from death. The evidence is based primarily on Shira’s testimony and recording from the defendant’s own phone describing minute by minute what happened there. A vivid and chilling testimony of the moments that passed over Shira and their little son.The recording and testimony of Shira will prove how the defendant repeatedly hit dozens of punches in the rolling pin used by Shira shortly before to make challah on the eve of the holiday.Then how he strangled Shira In the chest with the upper body in the head and on the scalp. “
Advocate Amuyal added: “The presence of Shira today who will testify here before the defendant is of enormous significance. And not just from the deliberative aspect and impression from the witness. Most of the time we do not get to hear direct testimony from someone who survived the inferno and went back to telling what happened there. Most of these women do not survive to tell. A huge singing presence especially for her. She is beautiful and strong. It will be another important step for her in the process of her recovery and the restoration of an animal and her son’s life. “
“Any attempt on the part of the accused to place the responsibility on Shira, the attempt to divert the spotlight from the main thing. The message to be conveyed through this case is that no woman and in fact no man should experience the horror and inferno Shira went through. I will cry out for minors and helpless victims of domestic violence Necessarily, even when the violence is not directed at them directly. ”