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The other two who have served as acting prime minister have gone on to become the prime minister. The incumbent prime minister of Israel is Benjamin Netanyahu, who assumed office on 29 December 2022. He also held the office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021.
Amir Peretz (b. 1952), Defense Minister May 2006–, Histadrut leader 1995–2005, leader of the Am Ehad party from 1997, which later merged into the Labour party (Avoda), elected to lead Avoda in November 2005; Yitzhak Haim Peretz, Rabbi, former minister, leader of Shas; Shoshana Persitz, first female MK at the head of a permanent committee
Eleven people have served as President of Israel, four of whom have served two consecutive terms. Another, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, was elected to three consecutive terms, although he died in office soon after the beginning of his third term. Isaac Herzog has been serving as the 11th President of Israel since 2021.
The thirty-seventh government of Israel is the current cabinet of Israel, formed on 29 December 2022, following the Knesset election on 1 November 2022. [5] [6] The coalition government consists of seven parties — Likud, United Torah Judaism, Shas, Religious Zionist Party, Otzma Yehudit, New Hope and Noam — and is led by Benjamin Netanyahu, who has taken office as the Prime Minister of ...
The Cabinet of Israel (Hebrew: ממשלת ישראל, romanized: Memshelet Yisra'el; Arabic: مجلس وزراء إسرائيل, romanized: Majlis Wuzaraʾ Israʾil) is the cabinet which exercises executive authority in the State of Israel. It consists of ministers who are chosen and led by the prime minister.
A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is “right on the brink” and could come at “any time”, US secretary of state Antony Blinken has said. The deal is “closer than it’s ever been ...
The president's most important power, in practice, is to lead the process of forming a Government. Israel's electoral system and fractured political landscape make it all but impossible for one party to govern alone, let alone win an outright majority of Knesset seats. After each election, the president consults with party leaders to determine ...
As Dennis Ross, a former US envoy to the Middle East, noted last week in The New York Times, many regional leaders eager for a partner in Israel to help crush radical Islamism privately support ...