A left-wing Israeli blogger says a Shin Bet security service official threatened him Monday with losing his job and going to jail because he posted a tweet seeking the identity of three Shin Bet agents, in a follow-up to a blog post about the Israeli interrogation of Palestinian minors.

On May 2, Noam R. posted excerpts from the witness testimony of Palestinian minors who said they were interrogated by the Shin Bet, including an 8-year-old boy who said he asked to use the bathroom and was told to pee in his pants and a 15-year-old who said a Shin Bet official put jumper cables between his legs and threatened to turn on the electricity if he didn’t confess. On Noam’s Hebrew-language blog, Godwin Tzadak, he wrote that he cried that day for the first time since he was 11.

“I cried when I read testimony from the interrogation rooms of the Shin Bet, especially that of children,” he wrote. “I cried when I learned of the existence of room No. 4 in the Russian Compound interrogation facility, where Palestinian children are taken, and where they are interrogated for hours while being humiliated and tortured, psychologically and physically.”

At 6 A.M. the next day, Noam tweeted: “This is the place to mention that if any one of you knows the true identity of Shin Bet coordinators ‘Sabri’ from the Qalqilyah district, ‘Daoud’ from Jerusalem or ‘Abu Yusef’ from Bethlehem, I’m here.”

וזה המקום להזכיר שאם מי מכם מכיר את זהותם האמיתית של רכזי השב"כ "סברי" מנפת קלקיליה, "דאוד" מירושלים, ו"אבו יוסף" מבית לחם, אני כאן. — Noam R (@noamr) May 3, 2014

When a Shin Bet official who identified herself as Rona asked him during questioning Monday what he intended to do with any information he received about the Shin Bet agents, Noam, whose last name is being withheld from publication because of the sensitivity of the subject, told her he “intended to consult with lawyers about legal action against the violence they use,” he told Haaretz later.

At one point during the questioning, another Shin Bet official, who introduced himself as Zaki, threatened him. “He told me that if I kept it up, I could lose my job and even worse, I could go to jail for many years,” Noam said.

That encounter took place at a police station in a city in central Israel yesterday. He got a call Sunday from the police station’s commander, who summoned him to the station for a talk the next morning but would not tell him why. After consulting with two lawyers, he decided to go.

Noam later told Haaretz he thought the reason he had been summoned was to make him stop writing about the Shin Bet’s interrogations of Palestinians. "The impression I got was that my tweet was just a trigger for a broader ‘conversation’ after the series of posts about interrogations on my blog," he said. "It was a way of saying ‘Stay away from us.’”

The Shin Bet said the blogger was questioned because the security service had received intelligence that “Noam R. is looking for information that will allow him to illegally reveal the identity of the service’s operatives in Judea and Samaria. Following the received intelligence, [the blogger] was summoned today for questioning, where an attempt was made to discuss the suspicions with him.”

When he reached the police station, Noam was asked to hand over his identity card and wait until he was called. Forty minutes later,a young muscular man wearing civilian clothing approached him, introducing himself as “Zaki, in charge of intelligence here in the area,” Noam recounted.

Noam went with Zaki to a room where a uniformed police officer and Rona, a young woman in a floral-print dress, were sitting. Noam said Zaki began the conversation, asking him whether he knew why he had been summoned.

“When I said I had no idea, Zaki told me that I was looking for information about Shin Bet employees and that I tweeted about it on the Internet,” Noam said.

He said that during the meeting, which lasted between 30 and 40 minutes, Zaki told him his tweet constituted a crime against national security. Rona interrupted, saying the purpose of the meeting was to warn him against breaking the law. She told him about statute 19 of the Shin Bet Security Service Law, which states that revealing identifying information about Shin Bet employees carries a three-year prison term.

Noam said no one warned him not to reveal the identities of Shin Bet agents. He said Rona tried to flatter him and asked him about his political activity, and that he refused requests to name other left-wing activists.

“During the meeting, Rona spoke with me at length about violence during interrogations, the role of the Shin Bet and a great deal about ideology,” said Noam. “She even gave me compliments about how I had ‘both feet on the ground,’ about how I didn’t buy the Palestinians’ claims automatically, about how it was important to me that administrative detention not be used against members of the right wing either."

She also asked Noam to name names.

“She asked me about attending demonstrations in the West Bank, on whose behalf I attended them and who else was there,” he said. “But in everything that didn’t have to do with me directly, I told her I hadn’t been summoned for that.”