In an open letter by Tamir to the Tel Aviv municipality, who were planning to name a street after Kasztner, he stated that "Kasztner was never given exoneration", but rather that it was merely unproven whether his actions—which during the court case had been unanimously agreed upon as being despicable—had caused the murder or the failure to escape from Hungary of close to half a million Jews, deported and killed in the last months of the war. The court, he said, left that and only that to history.