Ministers and Senior Officials of the 29th Government of Israel

Ministers and Senior Officials of the 29th Government of Israel

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    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