The National Infrastructure Minister of Israel is the political head of the Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i Ministry of National Infrastructure. From its establishment in 1977 until 1996, the post was known as the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure . The current minister is Uzi Landau

Uzi Landau

Uzi Landau is an Israeli politician, member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and Minister of National Infrastructure. Previously a Likud MK, he served as Minister of Internal Security between 2001 and 2003.-Biography:...

 of Yisrael Beiteinu.

It succeeded the position of Development Minister

Development Minister of Israel

The Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee is a ministry in the Israeli government. Established in January 2005, the current minister is Silvan Shalom of Likud.In the past, there was also a Development Minister...

, which had been scrapped three years earlier. There has been a Deputy Minister of National Infrastructure on one occasion.

List of National Infrastructure ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Yitzhak Moda'i Yitzhak Moda'i Yitzhak Moda'i was an Israeli politician, who served five terms in the Knesset for Likud and then the New Liberal Party over the course of a 20-year career.-Biography:...	Likud Likud Likud 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 June 1977 – 5 August 1981
Yitzhak Berman Yitzhak Berman Yitzhak Berman is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Energy and Infrastructure from August 1981 until September 1982. He was also Speaker of the Knesset from 1980 until 1981.-Biography:...	Likud Likud Likud 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...	19	5 August 1981 – 30 September 1982
Yitzhak Moda'i Yitzhak Moda'i Yitzhak Moda'i was an Israeli politician, who served five terms in the Knesset for Likud and then the New Liberal Party over the course of a 20-year career.-Biography:...	Likud Likud Likud 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...	19–20	19 October 1982 – 13 September 1984
Moshe Shahal Moshe Shahal -Biography:Born in Baghdad in Iraq, Shahal made aliyah in 1950. He studied economics and Political Science at the University of Haifa, before graduating with a law degree from Tel Aviv University....	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 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...	21–23	13 September 1984 – 15 March 1990
Yuval Ne'eman Yuval Ne'eman Yuval Ne'eman , was a renowned Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was a minister in the Israeli government in the 1980s and early 1990s.-Biography:...	Tehiya Tehiya Tehiya , originally known as Banai , then Tehiya-Bnai , was a small right-wing political party in Israel that existed from 1979 until 1992...	24	11 June 1990 – 21 January 1992
Amnon Rubinstein Amnon Rubinstein Amnon Rubinstein is an Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002, he served in several ministerial positions. He is currently dean of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a patron of Liberal International.-Early life:Rubinstein was born...	Meretz	25	13 July 1992 – 7 June 1993
Moshe Shahal Moshe Shahal -Biography:Born in Baghdad in Iraq, Shahal made aliyah in 1950. He studied economics and Political Science at the University of Haifa, before graduating with a law degree from Tel Aviv University....	Labor Party	25	13 July 1992 – 9 January 1995
Gonen Segev Gonen Segev Gonen Segev in Kiryat Motzkin is a former Israeli member of Knesset and government minister and pediatrician who was convicted for an attempt of drug smuggling, for forgery and electronic commerce fraud....	Yiud Yiud Yiud was a small, short-lived political faction in Israel in the mid-1990s.-Background:The faction was formed on 7 February 1994 during the 13th Knesset when three MKs, Alex Goldfarb, Esther Salmovitz and Gonen Segev broke away from Tzomet, following a disagreement with the party's leader, Rafael...	25, 26	9 January 1995 – 18 June 1996
Yitzhak Levy Yitzhak Levy Rabbi Yitzhak Levy is an Israeli rabbi and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party and the Ahi faction of the National Union between 1988 and 2009...	National Religious Party National Religious Party The National Religious Party ) was a political party in Israel representing the religious Zionist movement. Formed in 1956, at the time of its dissolution in 2008, it was the second oldest surviving party in the country after Agudat Yisrael, and was part of every government coalition until 1992...	27	18 June 1996 – 8 July 1996
Ariel Sharon Ariel Sharon Ariel Sharon is an Israeli statesman and retired general, who served as Israel’s 11th Prime Minister. He has been in a permanent vegetative state since suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006....	Likud Likud Likud 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...	27	8 July 1996 – 6 July 1999
Eli Suissa Eli Suissa Rabbi Eliyahu "Eli" Suissa is a former Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios during the 1990s and early 2000s.-Biography:Born in Morocco in 1956, Suissa's family made aliyah to Israel later in the same year...	Shas Shas Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party in Israel, primarily representing Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Judaism.Shas was founded in 1984 by dissident members of the Ashkenazi dominated Agudat Israel, to represent the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi ...	28	6 July 1999 – 11 July 2000
Avraham Shochat Avraham Shochat Avraham Shochat is a former Israeli politician who twice served as Minister of Finance.-Background:Shochat was born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era...	One Israel One Israel One Israel was an alliance of the Labor Party, Meimad and Gesher created to run for the 1999 Knesset elections.-Background:One Israel was formed by Labor leader Ehud Barak in the run-up to the 1999 elections with the aim of making Labor appear more centrist and to reduce its secularist and elitist...	28	11 October 2000 – 7 March 2001
Avigdor Lieberman	Yisrael Beiteinu	29	7 March 2001 – 14 March 2002
Effi Eitam Effi Eitam Efraim "Effi" Eitam is an Israeli politician. A former leader of the National Religious Party, he later led a breakaway faction, Ahi, which merged into Likud in 2009. He served as a member of the Knesset between 2003 and 2009.-Biography:...	National Religious Party National Religious Party The National Religious Party ) was a political party in Israel representing the religious Zionist movement. Formed in 1956, at the time of its dissolution in 2008, it was the second oldest surviving party in the country after Agudat Yisrael, and was part of every government coalition until 1992...	29	18 September 2002 – 28 February 2003
Yosef Paritzky Yosef Paritzky -Background:Paritzky studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he gained an LL.B, and went on to work as an attorney. He is an attorney both in Israel and in New York....	Shinui Shinui Shinui is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical free market liberal party and political movement in Israel. The party twice became the third largest in the Knesset, but both occasions were followed by a split and collapse; in 1977 the party won 15 seats as part of the Democratic Movement for...	30	28 February 2003 – 13 July 2004
Eliezer Sandberg Eliezer Sandberg Eliezer Sandberg is a former Israeli politician who served as a government minister between 2003 and 2004.-Biography:Born in Haifa, Sandberg studied law at Tel Aviv University, gaining an LLB. He joined the Tzomet party, and became a member of its secretariat in 1988. He also served as the party's...	Shinui Shinui Shinui is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical free market liberal party and political movement in Israel. The party twice became the third largest in the Knesset, but both occasions were followed by a split and collapse; in 1977 the party won 15 seats as part of the Democratic Movement for...	30	19 July 2004 – 4 December 2004
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Binyamin Fuad Ben-Eliezer , , born 12 February 1936) is an Israeli politician and former military officer of Iraqi origin. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party, and has held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Industry, Trade and Labour, Minister of...	Labor Party	30	10 January 2005 – 23 November 2005
Roni Bar-On Roni Bar-On Roni Bar-On is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima and is a former Minister of Finance.-Biography:...	Kadima Kadima Kadima is a centrist and liberal political party in Israel. It was established on 24 November 2005 by moderates from Likud largely to support the issue of Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan, and was soon joined by like-minded Labor politicians...	30	18 January 2006 – 4 May 2006
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Binyamin Fuad Ben-Eliezer , , born 12 February 1936) is an Israeli politician and former military officer of Iraqi origin. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party, and has held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Industry, Trade and Labour, Minister of...	Labor Party	31	4 May 2006 – 31 March 2009
Uzi Landau Uzi Landau Uzi Landau is an Israeli politician, member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and Minister of National Infrastructure. Previously a Likud MK, he served as Minister of Internal Security between 2001 and 2003.-Biography:...	Yisrael Beiteinu	32	31 March 2009 – present

Deputy Ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Naomi Blumenthal Naomi Blumenthal Naomi Blumenthal is a former Israeli politician, her career ended by a conviction for corruption in 2006.-Biography:Born in Bitzaron during the Mandate era, Blumenthal served in a Nahal brigade during her national service...	Likud Likud Likud 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...	29th Twenty-ninth government of Israel The twenty-ninth government of Israel was formed by Ariel Sharon on 7 March 2001, following his victory over Ehud Barak in the special election for Prime Minister in February...	7 March 2001 – 1 January 2003

External links

• All Ministers in the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure Knesset website