Israeli court hears sentencing argument

Lawyers for Anat Kamm, a secretary serving 4 1/2 years in prison for espionage crimes, asked Israel\'s Supreme Court Monday to reduce her sentence. Kamm, who worked in the Israeli Defense Forces Central Command, was convicted in February in a plea bargain, in which she admitted taking classified military documents and providing them to journalist Uri Blau. Her appeal hearing comes the week after Blau was convicted in Tel Aviv District Court of aggravated espionage for possession of classified information. The prosecution recommended Blau be given a four-month sentence to be served as community service. In asking for reduced prison time for Kamm, her attorney, Ilan Bombach, told the court there was a \"huge, incomprehensible gap\" between Kamm\'s sentence and Blau\'s proposed sentence, The Jerusalem Post reported.