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Avi Dichter

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (left), MK Danny Danon (center) and former Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (right) at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Dec. 20, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Israel should annex at least part of Judea and Samaria

Mike Huckabee, Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel, is “someone who has a long record of being vocally supportive of annexation.”

Israel Kasnett

March 25, 2025

Israeli Agriculture and Food Security Minister Avi Dichter at a rare meeting with the heads of the Yesha Council, on March 23, 2025. Credit: Yesha Council.

Dichter: ‘Time to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria’

The Israeli agriculture minister met the heads of Jewish settlements and presented a plan to significantly increase domestic food production.

JNS Staff

March 24, 2025

Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (left) and Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz, Aug. 2, 2023. Credit: Binyamin Regional Council.

Israeli minister calls farmers ‘best guardians’ of Judea and Samaria

The Sovereignty Movement urged Netanyahu to refrain from using Judea and Samaria as a bargaining chip in normalization talks.

Aug. 2, 2023

Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter is hit on the head with a flag during a protest against the government's judicial reform program, March 23, 2023. Source: Screenshot.

Protester arrested for striking minister with Israeli flag

A demonstrator attacked Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter during “Day of Paralysis.”

March 23, 2023

Then-Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Avi Dichter, Aug. 13, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

‘The Palestinians are 100% responsible for Oslo failing’

The desperate attempts to prevent terrorist attacks, the decision to drive the Palestinian Authority from Jerusalem and the missed opportunity to eliminate the Hamas leadership: former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter recalls the days of “Operation Defensive Shield.”

Eyal Levi

March 29, 2022

MK Avi Dichter, now minister of agriculture, and then-MK Nira Shpak attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, March 21, 2022. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli Knesset members make first official visit to Indonesia

Likud MK Avi Dichter and Yesh Atid MK Nira Shpak traveled to Bali for the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference • “We smashed another glass ceiling,” said Dichter.

March 22, 2022

Then-Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Avi Dichter, Aug. 13, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Former Shin Bet chief calls for Israel to ‘initiate military operations against Iran’

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter says the lack of a U.S. response to the 2019 attack on Saudi oil facilities showed Iran there would be no price to pay for ramping up aggression.

Ariel Kahana

Feb. 4, 2021

Knesset member and former Shin Bet director Avi Dichter (right) and Im Tirtzu CEO Matan Peleg at ZOA House in Tel Aviv, July 28, 2019. Photo by Kobi Dovraz.

‘PA is 100 percent to blame for Oslo failure,’ says former Shin Bet director

“There are no greater hypocrites than the Israeli left,” says Likud Knesset member Avi Dichter at a special conference in Tel Aviv focusing on Israel’s legal rights.

July 29, 2019

Likud Knesset member Avi Dichter

EU parliament member says she prefers ‘devil’ to Israeli Knesset member Avi Dichter

At European Parliament, Portuguese MEP Ana Gomes calls ex-Shin Bet chief Dichter a “warmonger” • Spanish MEP Javier Couso Permuy accuses him of bombing civilians before exiting hall in protest • Dichter: “I am very proud of Israel’s anti-terror efforts.”

Gideon Allon

Oct. 9, 2018