An Israeli journalist has been held secretly under house arrest for months amid allegations she obtained and leaked classified military information to an Israeli newspaper. Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service has banned news media from mentioning the case or identifying the reporter, Anat Kam, 23, who former colleagues say worked for the Israeli news site Walla! until her arrest in December 2009. Prosecutors claim she copied at least two classified military documents during her mandatory army service years earlier. These two documents are believed to have inspired a 2008 investigation by Haaretz reporter Uri Blau into how the Israeli military has repeatedly violated a 2006 ruling by the High Court of Justice against "targeted assassinations," predominantly those in which a non-combatant was killed. The Israeli newspaper, Ma'ariv, has published ambiguous references to the case. One came in a January op-ed about a non-existent country that secretly jails journalists, asking its confused subscribers whether that country should still be considered a democracy. Cracks in the gag order's effectiveness began to appear this spring, when Israeli journalists leaked the news to bloggers.
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