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Ministers and Senior Officials of the 29th Government of Israel

7 Mar 2001
 
 
The 29th Government of Israel
Ministers and Senior Government Officials

March 7, 2001
(updated November 6, 2002)


President
 
  Moshe Katsav - President of the State of Israel

 
Cabinet Ministers
 
 
Ariel Sharon - Prime Minister; Minister of Immigrant Absorption.
- With the resignation of the Labor ministers which entered to effect on November 2, 2002 he also holds the Agriculture, Industry and Trade, Transportation, and Science, Culture and Sport Portfolios.


Silvan Shalom - Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister
Natan Sharansky - Minister of Housing and Construction and Deputy Prime Minister
Eliyahu Yishai - Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister
 
Shlomo Benizri - Minister of Labor and Social Affairs
Nissim Dahan - Minister of Health
Efraim Eitam - Minister of National Infrastructures
Tzachi Hanegbi - Minister of the Environment; Minister of Transport
Uzi Landau - Minister of Public Security
Yitzhak Levy - Minister of Tourism
Limor Livnat - Minister of Education; Minister of Science, Culture and Sport
Tzipi Livni - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Dan Meridor - Minister without Portfolio
Roni Milo - Minister for Regional Cooperation
Shaul Mofaz - Minister of Defense
Dan Naveh - Minister without Portfolio, responsible for coordination between the government and the Knesset; Minister of Trade and Industry
Benjamin Netanyahu - Minister of Foreign Affairs
Asher Ohana - Minister of Religious Affairs
Reuven Rivlin - Minister of Communications
Meir Sheetrit - Minister of Justice
Eli Suissa - Minister for Jerusalem Affairs
 
 
Deputy Ministers
 
 
David Azoulay - Deputy Minister of the Interior (Shas)
Yitzhak Cohen - Deputy Minister of Finance (Shas)
Yuli Edelstein - Deputy Minister of Immigrant Absorption (Yisrael Ba-Aliya)
Gideon Ezra - Deputy Minister of Public Security (Likud)
Meshulam Nahari - Deputy Minister of Education (Shas)
Meir Porush - Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction (United Torah Judaism)
Avraham Ravitz - Deputy Minister of Education (United Torah Judaism)
Yitzhak Vaknin - Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Welfare (Shas)
 
 
Senior Government Officials
 
 
Avraham Burg, MK - Speaker of the Knesset
Aharon Barak - President of the Supreme Court
Eliezer Goldberg - State Comptroller and Public Complaints Commissioner
Lieutenant-General Moshe Ya'alon - IDF Chief of General Staff
Shlomo Aharonishky - Commissioner of Police
Elyakim Rubinstein - Attorney General
David Klein - Governor of the Bank of Israel
Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi Doron - Sephardi Chief Rabbi
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau - Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi
 
 
 
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See also
   government addresses, telephone and fax numbers
   previous governments of the state of israel
   the prime ministers of the state of israel
   political structure and elections in israel
   
 
   
 
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