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Author: Avi Dichter

Avi Dichter is Minister of the Home Front. He also served as Minister of Internal Security and head of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet).
Components of Domestic Security in the Age of Global Jihadism

Components of Domestic Security in the Age of Global Jihadism

May 31, 2007 | Avi Dichter
During the last ten years we have had to deal with a new player in the Middle East, Iran – the biggest terror state in the world today. Khaled Mashaal, the external leader of Hamas, started to increase the level of coordination and cooperation with Iran in 2001 and is trying to implement the Iranian strategy toward Israel in Gaza, in the same way as Hassan Nasrallah is implementing the Iranian strategy in Lebanon.