Tzachi Hanegbi is an Israeli politician and national security expert. A member of Likud, Hanegbi is currently Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and Minister of Regional Cooperation.
He served as Minister of Justice, Minister of Internal Security, Minister of Intelligence and Nuclear Affairs, and Minister in the Prime Minister's office supervising Israel's intelligence agencies Mossad and Shin Bet. He was also responsible for overseeing Israel's Atomic Energy Agency, and served as the minister in charge of Israel's strategic relationship and security dialogue with the United States. He also served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and as the Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and Majority Leader of the Knesset.
Hanegbi was appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to serve as Acting Prime Minister of Israel, from September 10–17, 2017, while the Prime Minister traveled abroad.
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“As far as I'm concerned, they can strike for a day, a month, until death.”
In reference to convicted Palestinian prisoners announcing a hunger strike. Hanegbi: Prisoners on hunger strike 'can starve to death' http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=464469 Haaretz, 14 August 2004
“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)
Israeli State Comptroller and judge Eliezer Goldberg on Tzachi Hanegbi in his annual report, published September 24, 2004.
