Ministry of Home Front Defense

The Home Front Defense Ministry was a ministry in the Israeli government. The post was created for Matan Vilnai by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 19, 2011. At the time, Netanyahu explained his reasoning for the establishment of the new ministry:[1]

Today, I would also like to appoint our friend Matan Vilnai as Home Front Defense Minister. I would also like to make it clear that we are talking bout [sic] establishing a separate ministry – a unique experiment – that will deal with the defense of the home front. This is the case in several other countries, the US for example, even though none of these countries have been hit by 12,000 missiles like we have and there are no such threats hanging over them. They have separate ministries for home front defense, how much more so should Israel, which needs a minister to deal with the issue in a separate and focused manner.

Ministry of Home Front Defense
המשרד להגנת העורף

Emblem of Israel
Agency overview
Formed2011
Dissolved2014
JurisdictionGovernment of Israel

Between 2007 and 2011 Vilnai was effectively in charge of Home Front coordination in his capacity as Deputy Minister of Defense under Ehud Barak.

List of ministers
# Minister Party Governments Term start Term end Notes
1Matan VilnaiIndependence3219 January 201116 August 2012
2Avi DichterNot an MK3216 August 201218 March 2013Dichter resigned from Kadima and the Knesset to become Minister.
3Gilad ErdanLikud3318 March 201330 June 2014

References
  1. "PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of the Cabinet Meeting". Prime Minister's Office. 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
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