adminIn October 2011 Kam, who had served as a soldier at the Israeli army’s central command in Jerusalem, was found guilty of leaking confidential documents to Ha’aretz journalist Uri Blau.
Kam, who was working as a journalist for the Walla news website, was sentenced to a term of four and a half years for espionage and passing reams of classified documents to Blau.
Kam, who had been under house arrest before her sentencing, is basing her appeal on a plea bargain Blau signed last Thursday.
In May, Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein said he intended to indict Blau on espionage charges, as well, for holding the secret documents.
Some of the files contained secret operational plans, among them the policy of assassinating senior Palestinian militants, which was previously ruled illegal by the Supreme Court.
However, Blau signed a plea bargain, dropping the prison term to four and a half months of community service.
Kam’s lawyer, Ilan Bombach, argued that the prosecution discriminated against his client and had exercised “selective enforcement” in the cases of Kam and Blau.
The first hearing is set to take place in two weeks, according to the Ynet news site.
Bombach also plans to cite two more cases to get his client’s sentence reduced.
Elil Zeira, a former Mossad agent, was not indicted last week over leaking the name of an Egyptian agent, Ashraf Marwan, who was found dead in Egypt in 2007.
In another case in 2002, Colonel (Res.) Yitzhak Yaakov was convicted for revealing secret information and was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence.
Bombach claims that although these cases contain harsher violations of the law, both defendants got lighter sentences than Kam. — Xinhua.
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