Israel Cabinet & Ministers: Thirty-Second Government
(March 31, 2009 - March 18, 2013)
Israel Cabinet & Ministers: Cabinet & Ministers: Table of Contents
Head of State
Shimon Peres | President of the State of Israel |
Ministers
Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister; Minister of Economic Strategy; Minister of Pensioner Affairs; Minister of Health | |
Silvan Shalom | Vice Prime Minister; Minister for Regional Development; Minister of Development of the Negev and the Galilee | |
Moshe Ya'alon | Vice Prime Minister; Minister of Strategic Affairs | |
Ehud Barak | Deputy Prime Minister; Minister of Defense | |
Avigdor Liberman | Deputy Prime Minister; Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
Dan Meridor | Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy | |
Eliyahu Yishai | Deputy Prime Minister; Minister of the Interior | |
Yitzhak Aharonovitch | Minister of Internal Security | |
Ariel Atias | Minister of Housing and Construction | |
Ze'ev "Benny" Begin | Minister without Portfolio | |
Shalom Simhon | Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor; Minister of Minorities | |
Yuli Edelstein | Minister of Information and Diaspora Affairs | |
Michael Eitan | Minister of Improvement of Government Services | |
Gilad Erdan | Minister of Environmental Protection | |
Daniel Hershkowitz | Minister of Science and Technology | |
Moshe Kahlon | Minister of Welfare and Social Affairs; Minister of Communications | |
Yisrael Katz | Minister of Transportation and Road Safety | |
Uzi Landau | Minister of National Infrastructure | |
Sofa Landver | Minister of Immigration Absorption | |
Limor Livnat | Minister of Culture and Sport | |
Yakov Margi | Minister of Religious Services | |
Stas Misezhnikov | Minister of Tourism | |
Meshulam Nahari | Minister without Portfolio | |
Yaakov Neeman | n/a | Minister of Justice |
Yossi Peled | Minister without Portfolio | |
Gideon Sa'ar | Minister of Education | |
Yuval Steinitz | Minister of Finance | |
Orit Noked | Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development | |
Avi Dichter | Minister of Home Front Defense |
Deputy Ministers
Ayoob Kara | Deputy Minister of the Development of the Negev and Galilee | |
Meir Porush | Deputy Minister of Education | |
Yitzhak Cohen | Deputy Minister of Finance | |
Daniel Ayalon | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
Yaakov Litzman | Deputy Minister of Health | |
Lea Nass | Deputy Minister of Pensioner Affairs | |
Gila Gamliel | Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office |
Senior Government Officials
Reuven Rivlin | Speaker of the Knesset | |
Dorit Beinisch | President of the Supreme Court | |
Micha Lindenstrauss | State Comptroller and Ombudsman | |
Stanley Fischer | Governor of the Bank of Israel | |
Benny Gantz | IDF Chief of General Staff | |
Menachem Mazuz | Attorney General | |
Rabbi Shlomo Amar | Sephardi Chief Rabbi | |
Rabbi Yona Metzger | Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi |
Former Ministers:
Avishay Braverman - Labor - Minister of Minorities (Resigned, January 2011)
Isaac Herzog - Labor - Minister of the Diaspora, Society, & the Fight Against AntiSemitism (Resigned, January 2011)
Benjamin Ben-Eliezer - Labor - Minister of Industry, Trade, & Labor (Resigned, January 2011)
Matan Vilnai - Independence - Minister of Home Front Defense (Appointed Ambassador to China, February 2012)
Sources: Israeli Foreign Ministry