Israel Cabinet & Ministers: Thirty-First Government
(May 4, 2006 - March 31, 2009)
President
Shimon Peres — President of the State of Israel
Cabinet Ministers
Ehud Olmert - Prime Minister
Tzipi Livni - Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Haim Ramon - Vice Primer Minister, Minister without Portfolio
Ehud Barak - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense
Avigdor Liberman - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Strategic Affairs
Eli Yishai - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor
Shaul Mofaz - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation and Road Safety
Daniel Friedmann - Minister of Justice
Avi Dichter - Minister of Public Security
Raleb Majadele - Minister of Sciences, Culture and Sports
Roni Bar-On - Minister of Finance
Yaakov Edri - Minister for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee, Minister of Immigrant Absorption
Ariel Atias - Minister of Communications
Rafi Eitan - Minister Responsible for Pensioners
Zeev Boim - Minister of Housing and Construction
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer - Minister of National Infrastructures
Yaakov Ben-Yizri- Minister of Health
Yitzhak Herzog - Minister of Welfare and Social Services, Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism
Yitzhak Cohen - Minister without Portfolio (responsible for the religious councils)
Meshulam Nahari - Minister without Portfolio
Gideon Ezra - Minister of of Environmental Protection
Meir Sheetrit - Minister of the Interior
Shalom Simhon - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Yuli Tamir - Minister of Education
Yitzhak Aharonovitch - Minister of Tourism
Ruhama Avraham - Minister without Portfolio (responsible for liaison with the Knesset)
Ami Ayalon - Minister without Portfolio
Senior Government Officials
Dalia Itzik- Speaker of the Knesset
Dorit Beinisch - President of the Supreme Court
Micha Lindenstrauss - State Comptroller and Ombudsman
Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi - IDF Chief of General Staff
Menachem Mazuz - Attorney General
Stanley Fischer - Governor of the Bank of Israel
Rabbi Shlomo Amar - Sephardi Chief Rabbi
Rabbi Yona Metzger - Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi
Sources: Israeli Foreign Ministry