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Jerusalem (AFP) Feb 6, 2011 A Tel Aviv court on Sunday convicted a young Israeli woman of leaking classified military documents, but dropped espionage charges as part of a plea-bargain agreement, media reports said. Anat Kam, who is in her 20s, was convicted on charges of illegal possession of classified data, and passing it to another person without authorisation, the website of the Haaretz newspaper said. But the court agreed to drop the more serious charge of "serious espionage" with intent to harm Israel's security, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. "We reached a plea-bargain agreement today," Kam told public radio. "I pleaded guilty to those charges which were brought against me. I'm not thinking about the punishment at the moment." Sentencing is to take place later, with Kam saying it would be in April. "We are talking here about conviction on two serious charges," prosecutor Hadas Furi-Gafni told public radio. "The (maximum) punishment for one is 12 years and the punishment for the other is seven years," she said. Kam has been under house arrest since December 2009, a month before she was charged with stealing about 2,000 documents, including details of operational planning and force deployment, during her army service between 2005 and 2007. The charge sheet says she was born in 1987 but gives no exact date. Some of the documents were used in the preparation of a Haaretz article which said troops had received orders to carry out targeted killings of Palestinian militants in violation of an Israeli Supreme Court order. The journalist who wrote it, Uri Blau, was reportedly given immunity from prosecution after giving intelligence agents the classified documents in his possession. Kam said her actions were ideologically motivated and that she wanted to publicise the Israeli military's policies in the Palestinian territory.
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