Governments of Israel

	Ministers by Ministry
	Prime Ministers Ministry of Agriculture Ministry of Communication Ministry of Defense Ministry of Economics and Planning Ministry of Education and Culture Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure Ministry of Finance Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Health Ministry of Housing and Construction Ministry of Immigrant Absorption Ministry of Information Ministry of Internal Affairs Ministry of Justice Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare Ministry of Police (Internal Security) Ministry of Religions Ministry of Science Ministry of the Environment Ministry of Tourism Ministry of Trade and Industry Ministry of Transportation Ministers Without Portfolio All Ministers in the Ministry of Defense Provisional State Council Provisional Government David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 14/05/1948 - 10/03/1949 First Knesset Government 1 David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 10/03/1949 - 01/11/1950 Government 2 David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 01/11/1950 - 08/10/1951 Second Knesset Government 3 David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 08/10/1951 - 24/12/1952 Government 4 David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 24/12/1952 - 26/01/1954 Government 5 Pinhas Lavon Minister of Defense 26/01/1954 - 21/02/1955 David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 21/02/1955 - 29/06/1955 Government 6 David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 29/06/1955 - 03/11/1955 Third Knesset Government 7 David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 03/11/1955 - 07/01/1958 Government 8 David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 07/01/1958 - 17/12/1959 Fourth Knesset Government 9 David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 17/12/1959 - 02/11/1961 Shimon Peres Deputy Min. of Defense 21/12/1959 - 02/11/1961 Fifth Knesset Government 10 David Ben-Gurion Minister of Defense 02/11/1961 - 26/06/1963 Shimon Peres Deputy Min. of Defense 06/11/1961 - 26/06/1963 Government 11 Levi Eshkol Minister of Defense 26/06/1963 - 22/12/1964 Shimon Peres Deputy Min. of Defense 01/07/1963 - 22/12/1964 Government 12 Levi Eshkol Minister of Defense 22/12/1964 - 12/01/1966 Shimon Peres Deputy Min. of Defense 23/12/1964 - 25/05/1965 Sixth Knesset Government 13 Levi Eshkol Minister of Defense 12/01/1966 - 05/06/1967 Moshe Dayan Minister of Defense 05/06/1967 - 17/03/1969 Zvi Dinstein Deputy Min. of Defense 17/01/1966 - 05/06/1967 Government 14 Moshe Dayan Minister of Defense 17/03/1969 - 15/12/1969 Seventh Knesset Government 15 Moshe Dayan Minister of Defense 15/12/1969 - 10/03/1974 Eighth Knesset Government 16 Moshe Dayan Minister of Defense 10/03/1974 - 03/06/1974 Government 17 Shimon Peres Minister of Defense 03/06/1974 - 20/06/1977 Ninth Knesset Government 18 Ezer Weizman Minister of Defense 20/06/1977 - 26/05/1980 Menahem Begin Minister of Defense 28/05/1980 - 05/08/1981 Mordechai Zipori Deputy Min. of Defense 28/06/1977 - 05/08/1981 Tenth Knesset Government 19 Ariel Sharon Minister of Defense 05/08/1981 - 14/02/1983 Menahem Begin Minister of Defense 14/02/1983 - 23/02/1983 Moshe Arens Minister of Defense 23/02/1983 - 10/10/1983 Mordechai Zipori Deputy Min. of Defense 11/08/1981 - 10/10/1983 Government 20 Moshe Arens Minister of Defense 10/10/1983 - 13/09/1984 Eleventh Knesset Government 21 Yitzhak Rabin Minister of Defense 13/09/1984 - 20/10/1986 Michael Dekel Deputy Min. of Defense 03/12/1985 - 20/10/1986 Government 22 Yitzhak Rabin Minister of Defense 20/10/1986 - 22/12/1988 Michael Dekel Deputy Min. of Defense 20/10/1986 - 21/11/1988 Twelfth Knesset Government 23 Yitzhak Rabin Minister of Defense 22/12/1988 - 15/03/1990 Government 24 Moshe Arens Minister of Defense 11/06/1990 - 13/07/1992 Ovadia Eli Deputy Min. of Defense 08/07/1991 - 13/07/1992 Thirteenth Knesset Government 25 Yitzhak Rabin Minister of Defense 13/07/1992 - 04/11/1995 (assassinated) Shimon Peres Minister of Defense 04/11/1995 - 22/11/1995 Mordechai Gur Deputy Min. of Defense 04/08/1992 - 16/07/1995 (died) Government 26 Shimon Peres Minister of Defense 22/11/1995 - 18/06/1996 Ori Orr Deputy Min. of Defense 27/11/1995 - 18/06/1996 Fourteenth Knesset Government 27 Itzchak Mordechay Minister of Defense 18/06/1996 - 25/01/1999 Moshe Arens Minister of Defense 27/01/1999 - 06/07/1999 Silvan Shalom Deputy Min. of Defense 09/07/1997 - 06/07/1999 Fifteenth Knesset Government 28 Ehud Barak Minister of Defense 06/07/1999 - 07/03/2001 Ephraim Sneh Deputy Min. of Defense 05/08/1999 - 07/03/2001 Government 29 Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Minister of Defense 07/03/2001 - 02/11/2002 Shaul Mofaz Minister of Defense 04/11/2002 - 28/02/2003 Dalia Rabin-Pelossof Deputy Min. of Defense 07/03/2001 - 01/08/2002 Wizman Shiry Deputy Min. of Defense 12/08/2002 - 02/11/2002 Sixteenth Knesset Government 30 Shaul Mofaz Minister of Defense 28/02/2003 - 04/05/2006 Ze`ev Boim Deputy Min. of Defense 05/03/2003 - 18/01/2006 Seventeenth Knesset Government 31 Amir Peretz Minister of Defense 04/05/2006 - 18/06/2007 Ehud Barak Minister of Defense 18/06/2007 - 31/03/2009 Ephraim Sneh Deputy Min. of Defense 30/10/2006 - 18/06/2007 Matan Vilnai Deputy Min. of Defense 02/07/2007 - 31/03/2009 Eighteenth Knesset Government 32 Ehud Barak Minister of Defense 31/03/2009 - 18/03/2013 Dan Meridor Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy 31/03/2009 - 18/03/2013 Matan Vilnai Deputy Min. of Defense 01/04/2009 - 19/01/2011 Nineteenth Knesset Government 33 Moshe Ya`alon Minister of Defense 18/03/2013 Danny Danon Deputy Min. of Defense 18/03/2013

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