Journalist Ilana Dayan revealed some of the motives behind Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch’s decision to force the government to provide protection for buildings in Sderot in a speech given Wednesday and quoted by Nfc.  According to Dayan, Beinisch worried that if she did not rule against the government, authorities would refuse to protect the town, and residents would have nowhere else to turn.  “There’s nothing after me,” Beinisch reportedly said, meaning that residents would have had no possibility of appeal.

According to Dayan, Beinisch said, “I thought about what would happen if there would be no protection.  Would I send my daughters there?”  Dayan said her information was taken from a private conversation with Beinisch.  Dayan allowed herself to reveal the information after determining that it could not harm Beinisch for others to know her reasoning, Dayan said.