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The Agriculture Minister of Israel (Sar HaHakla'ut) is the political head of the Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i Ministry of Agriculture and a relatively minor position in the Israeli cabinet
Cabinet of Israel

The Cabinet of Israel is a formal body composed of government officials chosen and led by a Prime Minister of Israel. Its composition must be approved by a vote in the Knesset....
. Since 1992 the full title of the position has been the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sar HaHakla'ut vePituah HaKfar), the Development Ministry
Development Minister of Israel

The Development of the Negev and Galilee Minister of Israel is a ministerial position in the Cabinet of Israel. It was established in January 2005....
 having been abolished in 1974. The current minister is Shalom Simhon
Shalom Simhon

Shalom Simhon is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party. He currently serves as the Agriculture Minister of Israel in the Cabinet of Israel....
 of Labour. The holder of the post oversees the country's agricultural industry
Agriculture in Israel

Agriculture is a major industry in Israel with the country being a net exporter of food as well as a world-leader in Agricultural research In Israel....
.

Two serving Prime Ministers
Prime Minister of Israel

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
, Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin

was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
 and Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel, and current Defense Minister of Israel, Deputy leaders of Israel#Deputy Prime Minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party ....
; Begin following the death of the incumbent, and Barak following the resignation of the former minister's party from his coalition.

There is occasionally a Deputy Minister of Agriculture.

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MinisterPartyGovernment(s)Dates in Office
Aharon Zisling
Aharon Zisling

Aharon Zisling was an Israeli politician and minister and a signatory of Declaration of Independence ....
Mapam
Mapam

Mapam was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz-Yachad party....
Provisional
Provisional government of Israel

The provisional government of Israel was the temporary Cabinet of Israel which governed Israel from shortly before Declaration of Independence until the formation of the First government of Israel in March 1949 following the Israeli legislative election, 1949 in January that year....
14/5/1948 - 10/3/1949
Dov Yosef
Dov Yosef

Dov Yosef was an Israeli politician and statesman. Yosef served in a variety of ministerial positions during the first two Knessets and was the country's second Justice Minister of Israel, serving twice ....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
1st
First government of Israel

The first government of Israel formed by David Ben-Gurion on 8 March, 1949, a month and a half after the elections for the Israeli legislative election, 1949....
1/6/1949 - 1/11/1950
Pinhas Lavon
Pinhas Lavon

Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician, minister and labor leader, best known for the Lavon Affair....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
2nd
Second government of Israel

The second government of Israel was formed during the Israeli legislative election, 1949. David Ben-Gurion made an attempt to form a minority government consisting of Mapai and Sephardim and Oriental Communities on 17 October, but it was not approved by the Knesset....
1/11/1950 - 8/10-1951
Levi Eshkol
Levi Eshkol

served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a myocardial infarction in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
3rd
Third government of Israel

The third government of Israel was formed by David Ben Gurion on 8 October, 1951, more than two months after the Israeli legislative election, 1951....
8/10/1951 - 25/6/1952
Peretz Naftali
Peretz Naftali

Peretz Naftali was a Zionism activist and Israeli politician who served in several ministerial portfolios in the 1950s....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
3rd
Third government of Israel

The third government of Israel was formed by David Ben Gurion on 8 October, 1951, more than two months after the Israeli legislative election, 1951....
, 4th
Fourth government of Israel

The fourth government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion during the Israeli legislative election, 1951 on 24 December, 1952. Ben-Gurion dropped the Haredi Judaism parties Agudat Israel and Agudat Israel Workers from his coalition and replaced them with the General Zionists and the Progressive Party , who formed the government together w...
, 5th
Fifth government of Israel

The fifth government of Israel was formed by Moshe Sharett during the Israeli legislative election, 1951 on 26 January, 1954, and was the first government not led by David Ben-Gurion....
, 6th
Sixth government of Israel

The sixth government of Israel was formed by Moshe Sharett during the Israeli legislative election, 1951 on 29 June 1955. Sharett dropped the General Zionists and the Progressive Party from his coalition, which included Mapai, Mizrachi , Hapoel HaMizrachi, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Developme...
25/6/1952 - 3/11/1955
Kadish Luz
Kadish Luz

Kadish Luz was an Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel between 1955 and 1959 and Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
7th
Seventh government of Israel

The seventh government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 3 November 1955 following the Israeli legislative election, 1955. His coalition included Mapai, the National Religious Party, Mapam, Ahdut HaAvoda, and the Israeli Arab parties, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development....
, 8th
Eighth government of Israel

The eighth government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 7 January, 1958, and was the second government of the Israeli legislative election, 1955....
3/11/1955 - 17/12/1959
Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan, was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Ramatkal of the Israel Defense Forces , he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new Israel....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
9th
Ninth government of Israel

The ninth government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 17 December 1959 following the Israeli legislative election, 1959. Ben-Gurion largely kept the same coalition partners as during the Eighth government of Israel , and added the new Israeli Arab parties Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood....
, 10th
Tenth government of Israel

The tenth government of Israel was formed on 2 November 1961 following the Israeli legislative election, 1961. Although David Ben-Gurion was appointed Prime Minister, the government was actually formed by Minister of Finance, Levi Eshkol....
, 11th
Eleventh government of Israel

The eleventh government of Israel was formed on 26 June 1963, midway through the Israeli legislative election, 1961. It was the first government formed by Levi Eshkol following the second resignation of David Ben-Gurion....
17/12/1959 - 4/11/1964
Haim Givati
Haim Givati

Haim Givati was a Zionism activist and Israeli politician. He held several ministerial portfolios, and served as Agriculture Minister of Israel between 1964 and 1974....
 1
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
, Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
11th
Eleventh government of Israel

The eleventh government of Israel was formed on 26 June 1963, midway through the Israeli legislative election, 1961. It was the first government formed by Levi Eshkol following the second resignation of David Ben-Gurion....
, 12th
Twelfth government of Israel

The twelfth government of Israel was formed by Levi Eshkol on 22 December 1964, towards the end of the Israeli legislative election, 1961.Eshkol kept the same coalition partners as Eleventh government of Israel, i.e....
, 13th, 14th, 15th
Fifteenth government of Israel

The fifteenth government of Israel was formed by Golda Meir on 15 December 1969 following the Israeli legislative election, 1969. The government was a continuation of the National government formed during the Israeli legislative election, 1965, and consisted of the Alignment , Gahal, the National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals and...
, 16th
9/11/1964 - 3/6/1974
Aharon Uzan
Aharon Uzan

Aharon Uzan was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s....
 ²
Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
17th3/6/1974 - 20/6/1977
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon

is a former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel and military leader. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though he was unable to carry out his duties after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006, when he fell into a coma and entered a persistent vegetative state....
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
18th
Eighteenth government of Israel

The eighteenth government of Israel was formed by Menachem Begin on 20 June 1977, following the Israeli legislative election, 1977. It was the first government in Israeli political history led by a right-wing party, with the coalition consisting of Begin's Likud , the National Religious Party and Agudat Israel....
20/6/1977 - 5/8/1981
Simha Erlich
Simha Erlich

Simha Erlich was an Israeli politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party and Finance Minister of Israel under Menachem Begin, and is known for his attempt to liberalize the Israeli economy....
 ³
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
19th5/8/1981 - 19/6/1983
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin

was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
 4
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
19th19/6/1983 - 10/10/1983
Pesah Grupper
Pesah Grupper

Pesah Grupper is a former Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel between October 1983 and September 1984....
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
20th10/10/1983 - 13/9/1984
Aryeh Nehemkin
Aryeh Nehemkin

Aryeh Nehemkin is a former Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel from 1984 until 1988.Born in Nahalal during the British Mandate of Palestine, Nehemkin was a Haganah member between 1943 and 1948....
Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
21st, 22nd13/9/1984 - 22/12/1988
Avraham Katz-Oz
Avraham Katz-Oz

Avraham Katz-Oz is a former Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel from 1988 until 1990....
Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
23rd22/12/1988 - 15/3/1990
Rafael Eitan
Rafael Eitan

Rafael "Raful" Eitan was an Israeli general, former Ramatkal of the Israel Defense Forces and later a politician, a Knesset member Cabinet of Israel....
Tzomet
Tzomet

Tzomet is a small secular, right wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
24th11/6/1990 - 31/12/1991
Ya'akov Tzur
Ya'akov Tzur

Ya'akov Tzur is a former Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the 1980s and 1990s.Born in Haifa during the British Mandate of Palestine, Tzur studied bible and history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
Labor Party25th, 26th13/7/1992 - 18/6/1996
Rafael Eitan
Rafael Eitan

Rafael "Raful" Eitan was an Israeli general, former Ramatkal of the Israel Defense Forces and later a politician, a Knesset member Cabinet of Israel....
Tzomet
Tzomet

Tzomet is a small secular, right wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
27th18/6/1996 - 6/7/1999
Haim Oron
Haim Oron

Haim "Jumas" Oron is an Israeli politician and former Agriculture Minister of Israel. He is currently head of the political party New Movement-Meretz, for whom he serves as a member of the Knesset....
Meretz
Meretz-Yachad

The New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, Social democracy List of political parties in Israel in Israel, which emphasizes the Israeli peace camp, human rights, religious freedom and green politics....
28th5/8/1999 - 24/6/2000
Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel, and current Defense Minister of Israel, Deputy leaders of Israel#Deputy Prime Minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party ....
 4
Labor Party28th24/6/2000 - 7/3/2001
Shalom Simhon
Shalom Simhon

Shalom Simhon is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party. He currently serves as the Agriculture Minister of Israel in the Cabinet of Israel....
Labor Party29th7/3/2001 - 2/11/2002
Tzipi Livni
Tzipi Livni

Tzipora Malka "Tzipi" Livni is an Israeli politician and the current leader of Kadima, the largest party in the Knesset. She currently serves as the country's Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel....
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
29th17/12/2002 - 28/2/2003
Yisrael Katz
Yisrael Katz (politician born 1955)

Yisrael Katz is an Israeli politician. Formerly a Agriculture Minister of Israel, today he is a member of the Knesset for Likud....
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
30th28/02/2003 - 14/1/2006
Ze'ev Boim
Ze'ev Boim

Ze'ev Boim is an Israeli politician. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima, and as the country's Housing and Construction Minister of Israel....
Kadima
Kadima

Kadima is a centrist List of political parties in Israel in Israel founded by like-minded Likud and Israeli Labor Party politicians. It became the largest party in the Knesset after the Israeli legislative election, 2006, winning 29 of the 120 seats....
30th18/1/2006 - 4/5/2006
Shalom Simhon
Shalom Simhon

Shalom Simhon is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party. He currently serves as the Agriculture Minister of Israel in the Cabinet of Israel....
Labor Party31st
Cabinet of Israel

The Cabinet of Israel is a formal body composed of government officials chosen and led by a Prime Minister of Israel. Its composition must be approved by a vote in the Knesset....
4/5/2006 - Present


1 Givati was not a Knesset member for large durations of his stint as Agriculture Minister.






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The Agriculture Minister of Israel (Sar HaHakla'ut) is the political head of the Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i Ministry of Agriculture and a relatively minor position in the Israeli cabinet
Cabinet of Israel

The Cabinet of Israel is a formal body composed of government officials chosen and led by a Prime Minister of Israel. Its composition must be approved by a vote in the Knesset....
. Since 1992 the full title of the position has been the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sar HaHakla'ut vePituah HaKfar), the Development Ministry
Development Minister of Israel

The Development of the Negev and Galilee Minister of Israel is a ministerial position in the Cabinet of Israel. It was established in January 2005....
 having been abolished in 1974. The current minister is Shalom Simhon
Shalom Simhon

Shalom Simhon is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party. He currently serves as the Agriculture Minister of Israel in the Cabinet of Israel....
 of Labour. The holder of the post oversees the country's agricultural industry
Agriculture in Israel

Agriculture is a major industry in Israel with the country being a net exporter of food as well as a world-leader in Agricultural research In Israel....
.

Two serving Prime Ministers
Prime Minister of Israel

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
, Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin

was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
 and Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel, and current Defense Minister of Israel, Deputy leaders of Israel#Deputy Prime Minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party ....
; Begin following the death of the incumbent, and Barak following the resignation of the former minister's party from his coalition.

There is occasionally a Deputy Minister of Agriculture.

List of Agriculture ministers

MinisterPartyGovernment(s)Dates in Office
Aharon Zisling
Aharon Zisling

Aharon Zisling was an Israeli politician and minister and a signatory of Declaration of Independence ....
Mapam
Mapam

Mapam was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz-Yachad party....
Provisional
Provisional government of Israel

The provisional government of Israel was the temporary Cabinet of Israel which governed Israel from shortly before Declaration of Independence until the formation of the First government of Israel in March 1949 following the Israeli legislative election, 1949 in January that year....
14/5/1948 - 10/3/1949
Dov Yosef
Dov Yosef

Dov Yosef was an Israeli politician and statesman. Yosef served in a variety of ministerial positions during the first two Knessets and was the country's second Justice Minister of Israel, serving twice ....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
1st
First government of Israel

The first government of Israel formed by David Ben-Gurion on 8 March, 1949, a month and a half after the elections for the Israeli legislative election, 1949....
1/6/1949 - 1/11/1950
Pinhas Lavon
Pinhas Lavon

Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician, minister and labor leader, best known for the Lavon Affair....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
2nd
Second government of Israel

The second government of Israel was formed during the Israeli legislative election, 1949. David Ben-Gurion made an attempt to form a minority government consisting of Mapai and Sephardim and Oriental Communities on 17 October, but it was not approved by the Knesset....
1/11/1950 - 8/10-1951
Levi Eshkol
Levi Eshkol

served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a myocardial infarction in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
3rd
Third government of Israel

The third government of Israel was formed by David Ben Gurion on 8 October, 1951, more than two months after the Israeli legislative election, 1951....
8/10/1951 - 25/6/1952
Peretz Naftali
Peretz Naftali

Peretz Naftali was a Zionism activist and Israeli politician who served in several ministerial portfolios in the 1950s....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
3rd
Third government of Israel

The third government of Israel was formed by David Ben Gurion on 8 October, 1951, more than two months after the Israeli legislative election, 1951....
, 4th
Fourth government of Israel

The fourth government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion during the Israeli legislative election, 1951 on 24 December, 1952. Ben-Gurion dropped the Haredi Judaism parties Agudat Israel and Agudat Israel Workers from his coalition and replaced them with the General Zionists and the Progressive Party , who formed the government together w...
, 5th
Fifth government of Israel

The fifth government of Israel was formed by Moshe Sharett during the Israeli legislative election, 1951 on 26 January, 1954, and was the first government not led by David Ben-Gurion....
, 6th
Sixth government of Israel

The sixth government of Israel was formed by Moshe Sharett during the Israeli legislative election, 1951 on 29 June 1955. Sharett dropped the General Zionists and the Progressive Party from his coalition, which included Mapai, Mizrachi , Hapoel HaMizrachi, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Developme...
25/6/1952 - 3/11/1955
Kadish Luz
Kadish Luz

Kadish Luz was an Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel between 1955 and 1959 and Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
7th
Seventh government of Israel

The seventh government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 3 November 1955 following the Israeli legislative election, 1955. His coalition included Mapai, the National Religious Party, Mapam, Ahdut HaAvoda, and the Israeli Arab parties, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development....
, 8th
Eighth government of Israel

The eighth government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 7 January, 1958, and was the second government of the Israeli legislative election, 1955....
3/11/1955 - 17/12/1959
Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan, was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Ramatkal of the Israel Defense Forces , he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new Israel....
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
9th
Ninth government of Israel

The ninth government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 17 December 1959 following the Israeli legislative election, 1959. Ben-Gurion largely kept the same coalition partners as during the Eighth government of Israel , and added the new Israeli Arab parties Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood....
, 10th
Tenth government of Israel

The tenth government of Israel was formed on 2 November 1961 following the Israeli legislative election, 1961. Although David Ben-Gurion was appointed Prime Minister, the government was actually formed by Minister of Finance, Levi Eshkol....
, 11th
Eleventh government of Israel

The eleventh government of Israel was formed on 26 June 1963, midway through the Israeli legislative election, 1961. It was the first government formed by Levi Eshkol following the second resignation of David Ben-Gurion....
17/12/1959 - 4/11/1964
Haim Givati
Haim Givati

Haim Givati was a Zionism activist and Israeli politician. He held several ministerial portfolios, and served as Agriculture Minister of Israel between 1964 and 1974....
 1
Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
, Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
11th
Eleventh government of Israel

The eleventh government of Israel was formed on 26 June 1963, midway through the Israeli legislative election, 1961. It was the first government formed by Levi Eshkol following the second resignation of David Ben-Gurion....
, 12th
Twelfth government of Israel

The twelfth government of Israel was formed by Levi Eshkol on 22 December 1964, towards the end of the Israeli legislative election, 1961.Eshkol kept the same coalition partners as Eleventh government of Israel, i.e....
, 13th, 14th, 15th
Fifteenth government of Israel

The fifteenth government of Israel was formed by Golda Meir on 15 December 1969 following the Israeli legislative election, 1969. The government was a continuation of the National government formed during the Israeli legislative election, 1965, and consisted of the Alignment , Gahal, the National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals and...
, 16th
9/11/1964 - 3/6/1974
Aharon Uzan
Aharon Uzan

Aharon Uzan was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s....
 ²
Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
17th3/6/1974 - 20/6/1977
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon

is a former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel and military leader. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though he was unable to carry out his duties after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006, when he fell into a coma and entered a persistent vegetative state....
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
18th
Eighteenth government of Israel

The eighteenth government of Israel was formed by Menachem Begin on 20 June 1977, following the Israeli legislative election, 1977. It was the first government in Israeli political history led by a right-wing party, with the coalition consisting of Begin's Likud , the National Religious Party and Agudat Israel....
20/6/1977 - 5/8/1981
Simha Erlich
Simha Erlich

Simha Erlich was an Israeli politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party and Finance Minister of Israel under Menachem Begin, and is known for his attempt to liberalize the Israeli economy....
 ³
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
19th5/8/1981 - 19/6/1983
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin

was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
 4
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
19th19/6/1983 - 10/10/1983
Pesah Grupper
Pesah Grupper

Pesah Grupper is a former Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel between October 1983 and September 1984....
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
20th10/10/1983 - 13/9/1984
Aryeh Nehemkin
Aryeh Nehemkin

Aryeh Nehemkin is a former Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel from 1984 until 1988.Born in Nahalal during the British Mandate of Palestine, Nehemkin was a Haganah member between 1943 and 1948....
Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
21st, 22nd13/9/1984 - 22/12/1988
Avraham Katz-Oz
Avraham Katz-Oz

Avraham Katz-Oz is a former Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel from 1988 until 1990....
Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
23rd22/12/1988 - 15/3/1990
Rafael Eitan
Rafael Eitan

Rafael "Raful" Eitan was an Israeli general, former Ramatkal of the Israel Defense Forces and later a politician, a Knesset member Cabinet of Israel....
Tzomet
Tzomet

Tzomet is a small secular, right wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
24th11/6/1990 - 31/12/1991
Ya'akov Tzur
Ya'akov Tzur

Ya'akov Tzur is a former Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the 1980s and 1990s.Born in Haifa during the British Mandate of Palestine, Tzur studied bible and history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
Labor Party25th, 26th13/7/1992 - 18/6/1996
Rafael Eitan
Rafael Eitan

Rafael "Raful" Eitan was an Israeli general, former Ramatkal of the Israel Defense Forces and later a politician, a Knesset member Cabinet of Israel....
Tzomet
Tzomet

Tzomet is a small secular, right wing List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
27th18/6/1996 - 6/7/1999
Haim Oron
Haim Oron

Haim "Jumas" Oron is an Israeli politician and former Agriculture Minister of Israel. He is currently head of the political party New Movement-Meretz, for whom he serves as a member of the Knesset....
Meretz
Meretz-Yachad

The New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, Social democracy List of political parties in Israel in Israel, which emphasizes the Israeli peace camp, human rights, religious freedom and green politics....
28th5/8/1999 - 24/6/2000
Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel, and current Defense Minister of Israel, Deputy leaders of Israel#Deputy Prime Minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party ....
 4
Labor Party28th24/6/2000 - 7/3/2001
Shalom Simhon
Shalom Simhon

Shalom Simhon is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party. He currently serves as the Agriculture Minister of Israel in the Cabinet of Israel....
Labor Party29th7/3/2001 - 2/11/2002
Tzipi Livni
Tzipi Livni

Tzipora Malka "Tzipi" Livni is an Israeli politician and the current leader of Kadima, the largest party in the Knesset. She currently serves as the country's Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel....
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
29th17/12/2002 - 28/2/2003
Yisrael Katz
Yisrael Katz (politician born 1955)

Yisrael Katz is an Israeli politician. Formerly a Agriculture Minister of Israel, today he is a member of the Knesset for Likud....
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
30th28/02/2003 - 14/1/2006
Ze'ev Boim
Ze'ev Boim

Ze'ev Boim is an Israeli politician. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima, and as the country's Housing and Construction Minister of Israel....
Kadima
Kadima

Kadima is a centrist List of political parties in Israel in Israel founded by like-minded Likud and Israeli Labor Party politicians. It became the largest party in the Knesset after the Israeli legislative election, 2006, winning 29 of the 120 seats....
30th18/1/2006 - 4/5/2006
Shalom Simhon
Shalom Simhon

Shalom Simhon is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party. He currently serves as the Agriculture Minister of Israel in the Cabinet of Israel....
Labor Party31st
Cabinet of Israel

The Cabinet of Israel is a formal body composed of government officials chosen and led by a Prime Minister of Israel. Its composition must be approved by a vote in the Knesset....
4/5/2006 - Present


1 Givati was not a Knesset member for large durations of his stint as Agriculture Minister. He was outside the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 until 2 November 1965, between 17 January 1966 and 28 October 1969, and after 31 December 1973.

² Not a Knesset Member.

³ Died in office

4 Also serving Prime Minster
Prime Minister of Israel

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....


Deputy Ministers

MinisterPartyGovernment(s)Dates in Office
Yosef EfratiMapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
3rd
Third government of Israel

The third government of Israel was formed by David Ben Gurion on 8 October, 1951, more than two months after the Israeli legislative election, 1951....
9/7/1952 - 24/12/1952
Ze'ev TzurAhdut HaAvoda
Ahdut HaAvoda

Ahdut HaAvoda was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party....
7th
Seventh government of Israel

The seventh government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 3 November 1955 following the Israeli legislative election, 1955. His coalition included Mapai, the National Religious Party, Mapam, Ahdut HaAvoda, and the Israeli Arab parties, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development....
, 8th
Eighth government of Israel

The eighth government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 7 January, 1958, and was the second government of the Israeli legislative election, 1955....
5/12/1955 - 17/12/1959
Aharon Uzan
Aharon Uzan

Aharon Uzan was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s....
Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
13th, 14th17/1/1966 - 17/3/1969
Ben-Zion HalfonAlignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
15th
Fifteenth government of Israel

The fifteenth government of Israel was formed by Golda Meir on 15 December 1969 following the Israeli legislative election, 1969. The government was a continuation of the National government formed during the Israeli legislative election, 1965, and consisted of the Alignment , Gahal, the National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals and...
22/12/1969 - 10/3/1974
Jabr MoadeAlignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
, Progress and Development
Progress and Development

Progress and Development was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
, United Arab List
17th24/3/1975 - 20/6/1977
Pesah Grupper
Pesah Grupper

Pesah Grupper is a former Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel between October 1983 and September 1984....
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
19th11/8/1981 - 10/10/1983
Michael DekelLikud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
20th10/10/1983 - 13/9/1984
Avraham Katz-Oz
Avraham Katz-Oz

Avraham Katz-Oz is a former Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel from 1988 until 1990....
Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
21st, 22nd24/9/1984 - 22/12/1988
Walid SadikMeretz
Meretz-Yachad

The New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, Social democracy List of political parties in Israel in Israel, which emphasizes the Israeli peace camp, human rights, religious freedom and green politics....
25th, 26th4/8/1992 - 18/6/1996
Gila Gamliel
Gila Gamliel

Gila Gamliel is a former Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud....
Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
30th30/3/2005 - 14/1/2006


External links

  • Knesset website