Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named on Tuesday former internal security minister Avi Dichter as new home front defense minister.

Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named on Tuesday former internal security minister Avi Dichter as new home front defense minister.

"Today, I decided to appoint Knesset member Avi Dichter to serve as the minister for home front defense," Netanyahu said at a ceremony “welcoming” new immigrants to the occupied territories.
"He has many virtues and he is now charged with a very important mission: to continue doing what he has been doing his whole life -- contributing to the security of the country."

Dichter, also a former head of the Israeli internal intelligence agency Shin Bet, will have to leave his position in the opposition Kadima party to join the government.
The post has reportedly been turned down by a slew of other top officials.

Dichter, whose nomination will be voted on by the parliament on Thursday, according to Israeli media, will replace Matan Vilnai, a confidant of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who left the post to become ambassador to China.

He will take on the task of ensuring the Zionist entity’s home front defense at a time of growing speculation about the possibility of an Israeli attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Asked about his position on an Israeli strike against Iran, Dichter has said that the Zionist entity "must have attack capabilities."