Avi poet

Avi poet

Avi poet ( Hebrew אבי דיכטר; Born December 4, 1952 in Ashkelon , Israel ) is an Israeli politician ( Kadima , now Likud ). From 2000 to 2005 he was director of the domestic intelligence service Schin Bet , from 2006 to 2009 Minister of Homeland Security and from 2012 to 2013 Minister of Home Front Defense . He was a member of the Knesset from 2006 to 2012 and again since 2015.

Life

Youth and education

Poet was the child of Shoah survivors and a member of the left-wing Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair . After graduating from high school, he did his military service with the Sajeret Matkal under Ehud Barak . He graduated with a bachelor's degree in social sciences from Bar Ilan University . He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a Master of Business Administration .

intelligence

In 1974, Dichter joined the domestic secret service Schin Bet and in 2000 became its director. The targeted killing of several Hamas activists fell during his time with the secret service . These included For example, the bomb maker Yahya Ayyasch (1996) , who was responsible for numerous bus attacks, or the Kassam brigade commander Salah Shehade (2002). Fourteen of his relatives and neighbors were also killed in the killing. In 2002, family members of the slain neighbors sued poets in the USA for extrajudicial killing, war crimes and serious human rights violations. The US court dismissed this civil suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act . In 2005 he left the secret service. In 2007, Dichter refused to accept an invitation to speak to Great Britain, because there an arrest warrant can be obtained from private individuals without the involvement of the public prosecutor's office and the Israeli Foreign Ministry suspected that a left-wing extremist group would apply for one with regard to the killing of Shehade's relatives and neighbors. In an interview for the documentary Kill First from 2012, he was critical of the successes and failures of his secret service work and took the view that "peace cannot be created by military means".

politics

After leaving Schabak, in September 2005, Dichter started working as a research fellow at the Washington Brookings Institution , which is considered the think tank of the US Democrats . When Arik Sharon founded the Kadima party a little later to implement his disengagement plan , Dichter returned to Israel and successfully competed for it in the March 2006 election for the Knesset .

From 2006 to 2009, Dichter was Minister for Internal Security under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert . In this capacity, he banned a series of events in 2009 that the Palestinian Authority wanted to organize under the motto “Jerusalem, Capital of Arab Culture” in Jerusalem and Nazareth, among others , as this would violate a passage in the Oslo II Agreement , according to which the Palestinian Authority would open Israeli territory is not allowed to hold any events. In 2011, he and other members of parliament submitted a draft for the nation- state law, which establishes the Jewish character and national values ​​of the state and which was passed in 2018.

In August 2012, Dichter resigned his Knesset mandate, moved to Likud and became Minister of Home Front Defense . He left this office in March 2013 and was re-elected to parliament in 2015 .

Web links

Commons : Avi Dichter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matar et al v Poet . Ccrjustice.org. Archived from the original on May 20, 2010. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
2. ↑ Barak Ravid: Haaretz.com, Dichter cancels UK trip over fears of 'war crimes' arrest . In: Haaretz . Retrieved May 21, 2010.
3. ↑ sueddeutsche.de Süddeutsche Zeitung (online edition), March 5, 2013
4. ^ Israel bans Palestinian cultural events (English) . March 20, 2009. Archived from the original on March 23, 2009. Retrieved on March 22, 2009. 
5. ↑ דיכטר מנסה לעגן בחוק יסוד: "מדינת ישראל - מדינת הלאום היהודי" - וואלה! חדשות . walla news, August 3, 2011