Ministers and Senior Officials of the 31st Government of Israel

Ministers and Senior Officials of the 31st Government of Israel

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    (List of ministers updated 15 July 2008)
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    President
     
       Shimon Peres - President

     
    Cabinet Ministers
     
     

     Ehud Olmert - Prime Minister

     Tzipi Livni - Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs
     Haim Ramon - Vice Premier

     Ehud Barak - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense
     Shaul Mofaz - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Transportation and Road Safety
     Eliyahu Yishai - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor

     Eli Aflalo - Minister of Immigrant Absorption
     Ariel Atias - Minister of Communications
     Ruhama Avraham - Minister of Tourism
     Ami Ayalon - Minister without Portfolio
     Ronnie Bar-On - Minister of Finance
     Yacov Ben Yizri - Minister of Health
     Benjamin Ben-Eliezer - Minister of National Infrastructures
     Ze'ev Boim
    - Minister of Housing and Construction
     Yitzhak Cohen - Minister without Portfolio (responsible for the religious councils)
     Abraham Dicter - Minister of Public Security
     Ya'akov Edery - Minister for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee 
     Rafi Eitan - Minister of Pensioner Affairs
    Gideon Ezra - Minister of Environmental Protection
     Daniel Friedmann - Minister of Justice
     Isaac Herzog - Minister of Welfare and Social Services, Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism
     Raleb Majadele - Minister of Science, Culture and Sports
     Meshulam Nahari - Minister without Portfolio
     Meir Sheetrit - Minister of the Interior
     Shalom Simhon - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
     Yuli Tamir - Minister of Education



    List of ministers on 4 May 2006 (Photo: Reuters)

     
     
     
     

     Deputy Ministers

     Matan Vilnai - Deputy Minister of Defense
     Majalli Whbee - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

    Senior Government Officials

     
     
     Dalia Itzik, MK - 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
     Lt.-Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi - IDF Chief of General Staff
    Menachem Mazuz - Attorney General
    Rabbi Shlomo Amar - Sephardi Chief Rabbi
    Rabbi Yona Metzger
    - Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi