A Tel Aviv court on Thursday authorized for publication information on a security case that a gag order prevented Israeli media outlets from publishing. According to the story, Anat Kam, an IDF soldier, stole documents from the office of the IDF Central Command, where she served as a secretary, and smuggled them to Ha'aretz, which published some of the details. Security officials arrested Kam several months ago, and found about 2,000 photocopies of sensitive documents in her home. Among the articles published based on the documents was one that appeared in Ha'aretz about a year and a half ago, which discussed the IDF's policies on eliminating terrorists. Kam has been under house arrest since December, and she was indicted in January. Her attorney says that she confessed to the charges.
Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin said that the incident was “very serious” and had the potential to cause a great deal of damage to Israel's security. He said that there was a great fear in the security establishment that some of the documents, which he termed “super sensitive,” could fall into enemy hands.