. The post was established in 1948 as the
. In 1977 the
. However, the merger was reversed in 1981 and the post was renamed
.
position in the 1970s, was appended to the portfolio in 2003. The current minister is
| Minister |
Party |
Government(s) |
Dates in Office |
Peretz BernsteinPeretz Bernstein was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.-Biography:...
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General Zionists The General Zionists were centrists within the Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. Their political arm is an ancestor of the modern-day Likud and Kadima parties.-History:...
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P |
14/5/1948 - 10/3/1949 |
Eliezer KaplanEliezer Kaplan was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence and the country's first Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister.-Biography:...
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Mapai Mapai was a left-wing political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968.-Background:...
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1 |
10/3/1949 - 1/11/1950 |
Ya'akov GeriYa'akov Geri was a South Africa-born Israeli lawyer who served as Minister of Trade and Industry between November 1950 and October 1951, although he was never as a Knesset member.-External links:...
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Not an MK |
2 |
1/11/1950 - 8/10/1951 |
Dov YosefDov 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 Minister of Justice, serving twice .-Background:Yosef was born in Montreal, Canada, as Bernard Joseph...
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Mapai Mapai was a left-wing political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968.-Background:...
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3 |
8/10/1951 - 24/12/1952 |
Peretz BernsteinPeretz Bernstein was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.-Biography:...
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General Zionists The General Zionists were centrists within the Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. Their political arm is an ancestor of the modern-day Likud and Kadima parties.-History:...
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4, 5 |
24/12/1952 - 29/6/1955 |
Peretz NaftaliPeretz Naftali was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician who served in several ministerial portfolios in the 1950s.-Biography:...
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Mapai Mapai was a left-wing political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968.-Background:...
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6 |
29/6/1955 - 3/11/1955 |
Pinchas SapirPinchas Sapir was an Israeli politician during the first three decades following the country's founding. He held two important ministerial posts, Minister of Finance and Minister of Trade and Industry as well as several other high-ranking governmental posts...
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Mapai Mapai was a left-wing political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968.-Background:...
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7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
3/11/1955 - 25/5/1965 |
Haim Yosef ZadokHaim Yosef Zadok was an Israeli jurist and politician.-Biography:Zadok was born in 1913 in Rava-Ruska in Eastern Galicia in the Russian Empire . He studied philosophy and Jewish studies at the University of Warsaw...
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Mapai Mapai was a left-wing political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968.-Background:...
, AlignmentThe Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established 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...
|
12, 13 |
25/5/1965 - 22/11/1966 |
| Ze'ev Sherf Ze'ev Sherf was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the 1960s and 1970s.- Biography :Born in Czernowitz in Austria-Hungary , Sherf made aliyah in 1925...
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Alignment The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established 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...
|
13, 14 |
22/11/1966 - 15/12/1969 |
Yosef SapirYosef Sapir was an Israeli politician and Knesset member of the 1st to 7th Knessets. He served as head of the General Zionists and was a founding member of the Gahal party, along with Dr...
|
Gahal Gahal was the major right-wing political faction in Israel led by Menachem Begin from its founding in 1965 until it merged into Likud in 1973.-Background:...
|
15 |
15/12/1969 - 6/8/1970 |
Pinchas SapirPinchas Sapir was an Israeli politician during the first three decades following the country's founding. He held two important ministerial posts, Minister of Finance and Minister of Trade and Industry as well as several other high-ranking governmental posts...
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Alignment The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established 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...
|
15 |
1/9/1970 - 5/3/1972 |
| Haim Bar-Lev |
Not an MK ¹ |
15, 16, 17 |
5/3/1972 - 20/6/1977 |
| Yigal Hurvitz Yigal Hurvitz was an Israeli politician who served as a government minister in the late 1970s and 1980s.-Biography:...
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LikudLikud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...
|
18 |
20/6/1977 - 1/10/1978 |
| Gideon Patt Gideon Patt is a former Israeli politician who served in several ministerial positions between the late 1970s and early 1980s.-Biography:...
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LikudLikud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...
|
18, 19, 20 |
15/1/1979 - 13/9/1984 |
Ariel Sharon' is an Israeli general and statesman, former Israeli Prime Minister...
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LikudLikud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...
|
21, 22, 23 |
13/9/1984 - 20/2/1990 |
| Moshe Nissim Moshe Nissim is a former Israeli politician, minister and Deputy Prime Minister.-Background:Born in Mandate Palestine, Nissim studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an MA...
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LikudLikud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...
|
23, 24 |
7/3/1990 - 13/7/1992 |
| Michael Harish Michael Harish is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Industry and Trade between 1992 and 1996.-Biography:...
|
Labor Party |
25, 26 |
13/7/1992 - 18/6/1996 |
Natan SharanskyNatan Sharansky is a former Soviet spy, human rights activist, Israeli politician and author....
|
Yisrael BaAliyah |
27 |
18/6/1996 - 6/7/1999 |
Ran CohenRan Cohen is an Israeli politician and former Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad. He is a resident of Mevaseret Zion and married with four children....
|
Meretz |
28 |
6/7/1999 - 24/6/2000 |
Ehud BarakEhud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party....
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One Israel One Israel was an alliance of the Israeli Labour Party, Meimad and Gesher created to run for the 1999 Knesset elections.-Background:...
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28 |
24/9/2000 - 7/3/2001 |
Dalia ItzikDalia Itzik , born 20 October 1952, is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. She has previously served in several minsterial positions, and on 4 May 2006 became the first female speaker of the Knesset on 4 May 2006, and has since served as President of...
|
Labor Party |
29 |
7/3/2001 - 2/11/2002 |
Ariel Sharon' is an Israeli general and statesman, former Israeli Prime Minister...
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LikudLikud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...
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29 |
2/11/2002 - 28/2/2003 |
Ehud OlmertEhud Olmert is an Israeli political figure, and former Prime Minister of Israel having served from 2006 to 2009. Olmert was the mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. In 2003 he was elected to the Knesset and became a minister and Acting Prime Minister in the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon...
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LikudLikud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...
, KadimaKadima was founded as a centrist political party in Israel by moderates from Likud soon joined by like-minded Labor politicians. It became the largest party in the Knesset after the 2006 elections, winning 29 of the 120 seats...
|
30 |
28/2/2003 - 4/5/2006 |
Eli YishaiEliyahu "Eli" Yishai is an Israeli politician and head of the Shas party. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Shas, and as both one of four Deputy Prime Ministers and Minister of Internal Affairs.- Political life :...
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ShasShas is a political party in Israel, primarily representing Haredi Sephardi and Mizrahi Judaism. Following the 2009 elections in which Shas won 11 seats, it joined Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government and holds four cabinet posts...
|
31 |
4/5/2006 - 31/3/2009 |
Binyamin Ben-EliezerBrigadier-General Binyamin "Fuad" Ben-Eliezer is an Israeli politician and former soldier of Iraqi origin. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party, and as the country's Minister of Industry, Trade & Labour...
|
Labor Party |
32 |
31/3/2009 - present |
¹ Bar-Lev was not an MK at the time, but was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment's list in the
| Minister |
Party |
Government(s) |
Dates in Office |
| Zalman Suzayiv Zalman Suzayiv was an Israeli businessman and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the General Zionists between 1951 and 1959.-Biography:...
|
General Zionists The General Zionists were centrists within the Zionist movement and a political party in Israel. Their political arm is an ancestor of the modern-day Likud and Kadima parties.-History:...
|
4, 5 |
15/6/1953 - 29/6/1955 |
| Aryeh Eliav Aryeh "Lova" Eliav is an Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset for several left-wing parties.-Biography:...
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Alignment The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established 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...
|
13 |
17/10/1966 - 22/11/1966
28/11/1966 - 26/6/1967 |
| Yitzhak Peretz Yitzhak Peretz may refer to:*Yitzhak Peretz, an Israeli politician who served as Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism.*Yitzhak Peretz, an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister without Portfolio....
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LikudLikud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...
|
18 |
28/6/1977 - 15/1/1979 |
| Masha Lubelsky |
Labor Party |
25, 26 |
4/8/1992 - 18/6/1996 |
| Eli Ben-Menachem Eli Ben-Menachem is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, the Labor Party and One Israel between 1988 and 2006.-Biography:...
|
Labor Party |
29 |
7/3/2001 - 2/11/2002 |
| Michael Ratzon Michael Ratzon is a former Israeli politician who briefly served as a member of the Knesset for Likud in 1996 and again from 2003 until 2006.-Biography:...
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LikudLikud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...
|
30 |
5/3/2003 - 28/10/2004 |
| Eli Aflalo Eli Aflalo is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. Between July 2008 and March 2009 he was the country's Minister of Immigrant Absorption.-Biography:...
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KadimaKadima was founded as a centrist political party in Israel by moderates from Likud soon joined by like-minded Labor politicians. It became the largest party in the Knesset after the 2006 elections, winning 29 of the 120 seats...
|
30 |
30/3/2005 - 4/5/2006 |
| Orit Noked Orit Noked is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Labor Party.-Biography:Born in Jerusalem in 1952, Noked studied law at university. She became a legal advisor to the Kibbutz Movement in 1986, a job she held until 1992. Between 1996 and 2002 she served as director of the...
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Labor Party |
32 |
31/3/2009 - present |