Israeli Politics: Ministers of Defense
(1948 - Present)
|
Minister
|
Service
|
| Israel Katz | 2024 - |
| Yoav Gallant | 2023 - 2024 |
| Benny Gantz | 2020 - 2023 |
| Naftali Bennett | 2019 - 2020 |
| Benjamin Netanyahu | 2018 - 2019 |
| Avigdor Liberman | 2016 - 2018 |
| Moshe Ya'alon |
2013 - 2016
|
| Ehud Barak |
2007 - 2013
|
| Amir Peretz |
2006 - 2007
|
| Shaul Mofaz |
2002 - 2006
|
| Binyamin Ben-Eliezer |
2001 - 2002
|
| Ehud Barak |
1999 - 2001
|
| Moshe Arens |
1999 - 1999
|
| Yitzhak Mordechai |
1996 - 1999
|
| Shimon Peres |
1995 - 1996
|
| Yitzhak Rabin |
1992 - 1995
|
| Moshe Arens |
1990 - 1992
|
| Yitzhak Rabin |
1984 - 1990
|
| Moshe Arens |
1983 - 1984
|
| Ariel Sharon |
1981 - 1983
|
| Menachem Begin |
1980 - 1981
|
| Ezer Weizman |
1977 - 1980
|
| Shimon Peres |
1974 - 1977
|
| Moshe Dayan |
1967 - 1974
|
| Levi Eshkol |
1963 - 1967
|
| David Ben-Gurion |
1955 - 1963
|
|
1954 - 1955
|
|
| David Ben-Gurion |
1948 - 1954
|
Source: Israel Ministry of Defense;
Ministers by Ministry - Knesset
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