Anat Kamm – Uri Blau affair

Anat Kam ( alternative spelling Anat Kamm, Hebrew ענת קם; * 1987 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli journalist.

Life

Kam was born in 1987 in Jerusalem and attended the Hebrew University Secondary School. In her youth, she became interested in journalism and wrote in the local newspaper Jerusalem ( formerly Yedioth Jerusalem respectively) and also for the youth channel of the website Walla! .

In July 2005, Kam began their military service in the Israeli army. From 2005 to 2007 she completed it in the office of General Jair Naweh, the former head of Israeli Central Command.

After she had finished her military service, she began to study in November 2008, history and philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv. Most recently, she wrote for the Internet portal Walla! , Which belongs to the Israeli daily Haaretz on pop culture.

Trial and condemnation

In January 2010, the State Security were brought against Kam charges of espionage and violation. She was accused during their army service to have passed secret documents to the Israeli investigative journalist Uri Blau, who is said to have used these for a report on the illegal killing of three Palestinians by Israeli soldiers. Said incident had occurred in June 2007 in Jenin, in November 2008, appeared blue article in the Haaretz. The overall aim Kam approximately 2000 pages, classified more than a third of it as "Top Secret," have copied. The military censors had raised against blue text no objections.

Kam was from December 2009 under house arrest; simultaneously a news blackout was imposed, which has been weakened until early April 2010, after information about the case had become known internationally. On October 30, 2011, she was sentenced to probation for the collection, holding and transfer of classified military documents to a prison sentence of 4 ½ years plus 1 ½ - the accusation of espionage was dropped. The nearly two years of house arrest was not counted towards the sentence.

Kam started her sentence on 23 November 2011, Neve Tirza women's prison. On 31 December 2012, the Supreme Court reduced the sentence to 3 ½ years and 1 ½ on probation.

On January 26, 2014 Anat Kam was finally released early after a term of imprisonment of 26 months for good behavior.