Circumstances forced judge to text investigator, sources close to her say

Sources close to Ronit Poznansky-Katz, the judge who was caught texting with a representative of the state, explain the circumstances that led to the debacle, and insist that, though the optics are bad, she did nothing wrong.

“She was asked to return from a long vacation that she took during a month of mourning over a disaster in her family, and was forced to coordinate the times for the hearings from her own phone, without a legal assistant, intern or office,” sources close to judge tell Channel 10 news.

“The judge has nothing to hide, and one must read the entire [text] exchange in order to correctly understand the situation,” they say. “The police and the Securities Agency had different opinions, and the agency’s representative mentioned them.”

The course concede that it is “supremely important to uphold the purity of judges’ conduct,” but insist that “despite the unfortunate formulation [in the text messages], the judge’s behavior did not diverge from that purity.”