Tzachi Hanegbi
Overview
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i lawmaker and security expert. Hanegbi was the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the Knesset. Among the top cabinet positions he previously held are Minister of Justice, Minister of Internal Security and Minister of Intelligence and Nuclear Affairs. Hanegbi was also the minister in charge of Israel's strategic and security relations with the United States, and the minister in the Prime Minister's office supervising Israel's intelligence agencies – Mossad and Shin Bet – and overseeing Israel's Atomic Energy Agency.
As head of the United States-Israel strategic dialogue , Minister Hanegbi was coordinating the joint development of the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ), and the Iron Dome missile defense shield.
Yitzhak (Tzachi) Hanegbi was born in Jerusalem in 1957.
Quotations
Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.
Public radio, after the twin suicide bombings in Beer Sheva (August 31, 2004)