Avi Dichter

Avi Dichter, Israel's Minister of Public Security, "was the domestic intelligence agency chief in 2002 when Israel bombed a Hamas military leader's house killing him, his bodyguard and 15 civilians."

The BBC reported,

The Shin Beth agency, headed by Mr Dichter between 2000 and 2005, helped plan the assassination of Hamas military commander Saleh Shehada in July 2002.

Nine children were killed in the raid. A one-tonne bomb was dropped on Mr Shehada's house. The dead included his wife and his three children."

He was invited to a seminar on counter terrorism as a keynote speaker by the King's College London in 2007, but cancelled due to fears of being arrested for war crimes.

Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange Talk

In August 2007 Dichter delivered a talk at the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange. According to reports:

His talk ranged from the threat Iran posed to Israel, dramatically driven home with a simple map showing how small Israel is, to suicide bombers, assassinations of terrorist leaders, and the fact that Israeli police avoid the kind of public shootouts in which American officers too often engage.

Affiliations

Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange | Shin Bet

External Links

• Goi May Plan To Retroactively Approve Some Outposts, US Embassy Tel Aviv, 3 April 2006, published by Wikileaks, 1 September 2011.
• Ag Gonzales' Meeting With Minister Of Public Security Dichter, US Embassy Tel Aviv, 30 June 2006, Published by Wikileaks, 1 September 2011.
• Ambassador's June 30 Meeting With Israeli Public Security Minister Dichter, US Embassy Tel Aviv, 6 July 2006, published by Wikileaks, 1 September 2011.
• Avi Dichter Briefs Codel Pryor On State Of Israeli Security, US Embassy Tel Aviv, 6 October 2006, published by Wikileaks, 1 September 2011.
• Barak Ravid, Dichter cancels U.K. trip over fear of 'war crimes' arrest, Haaretz, 6th December 2007
• The Ambassador's Meeting With Internal Security Minister Dichter: Action Against Settler Violence, Security Cooperation With Pa, Concern About Hamas' Growing Strength In Gaza, US Embassy Tel Aviv, 31 October 2008, published by Wikileaks, 1 September 2011.