Confidentiality

(a) The deliberations and decisions of the Government and of ministerial committees regarding the following matters are confidential, and their disclosure and publication is forbidden: (1) State security; (2) Foreign relations of the State; (3) Another type of matters, which the Government considered their confidentiality as essential to the State, and declared them as such in an order, for the purpose of this article; (4) A matter, which the Government decided to keep confidential, as long as disclosure and publication of such a matter is not forbidden, except to those who knew of the decision. (b) The provisions of clause (a) shall not apply to matters that the Government, or the Prime Minister, or anyone whom the Government or Prime Minister authorized for this purpose, permitted to be published, or matters the publication of which is required by law.