Ministers and Senior Officials of the 28th Government of Israel
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Ministers and Senior Officials of the 28th Government of Israel

  • 7/6/1999
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    The 28th Government of Israel
    Ministers and Senior Government Officials

    July 6, 1999 - March 7, 2001



    President
     
      Moshe Katsav - President of the State of Israel

     
    Cabinet Ministers
     
     
    Ehud Barak - Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
    (PM Barak also held the following portfolios: Agriculture, Education, Industry and Trade, and Health)

    Yossi Beilin - Minister of Justice; Acting Minister of Religious Affairs
    Shlomo Ben-Ami - Minister of Public Security; Minister of Foreign Affairs
    Ra'anan Cohen - Acting Minister of Labor and Social Affairs
    Benjamin Ben-Eliezer - Minister of Communications and Deputy Prime Minister; Acting Minister of Construction and Housing
    Dalia Itzik - Minister of the Environment
    Amnon Lipkin-Shahak - Minister of Tourism; Minister of Transport
    Michael Melchior - Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, responsible for Diaspora and social affairs
    Shimon Peres - Minister of Regional Cooperation
    Haim Ramon - Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, responsible for Jerusalem Affairs; Acting Minister of the Interior
    Avraham Shochat - Minister of Finance; Acting Minister of National Infrastructures
    Yael (Yuli) Tamir - Minister of Immigrant Absorption
    Matan Vilnai - Minister of Science, Culture and Sport
     
     
    Deputy Ministers
     
     
    Nawaf Massalha - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
    Ephraim Sneh - Deputy Minister of Defense
     
     
    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 Shaul Mofaz - IDF Chief of General Staff
    Shlomo Aharonishki - 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