The original witness list includes 10 U.S. witnesses, mostly FBI agents, who would be flown in from the United States at Israel s expense. Tenenbaum did not address the court as his lawyer entered the plea. The two sides will return to court Oct. 10 to tell the judge if they were able to reduce the number of witnesses. A trial date has not yet been set. The defendants face a maximum sentence of three years in prison if convicted.
None are in custody.
Police have said that Tenenbaum, who used the name The Analyzer on the Internet, was the group leader and tutored the others in the unauthorized penetration of computer systems. The other defendants are Guy Fleisher, Ariel Rosenfeld and Rafael Ohana. Their ages were not given, but the indictment said they were all born in 1979. Another defendant, Barak Abutbul, has confessed to helping Tenenbaum break into the computer systems and has agreed to testify against him in exchange for a lighter sentence.