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Israeli Knesset, Jerusalem. The Prime Minister is the most powerful political figure in the country. Under sections 7 to 14 of Basic Law: The Government, the Prime Minister is nominated by the President after consulting party leaders in the Knesset; the appointment of the Prime Minister and cabinet is in turn confirmed by a majority vote of confidence from the assembled Knesset members. [4]
A poll conducted by the Israeli Democracy Institute in April and May 2014 showed that while a majority of both Jews and Arabs in Israel are proud to be citizens of the country, both groups share a distrust of Israel's government, including the Knesset. Almost three quarters of Israelis surveyed said corruption in Israel's political leadership ...
Since its capture in 1967, the Israeli government has built 12 Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem, with a population amounting to 220,000 Israeli Jewish settlers as of 2019. [140] The international community consider Israeli settlements to be illegal under international law .
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, Otzma Yehudit, Religious Zionist Party, New Hope and Noam — and is led by Benjamin Netanyahu, who has taken office as the Prime Minister of ...
Government Naming Committee – determines the Hebrew names for the Israeli geographical places, and its decisions are binding for all state institutions. Government Press Office – responsible for the provision of journalist diplomas for Israeli mass media workers and giving journalist visa to foreign journalists staying in Israel. In ...
The new building of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kiryat Ben-Gurion, the government complex near the Knesset, was designed by Jerusalem architects Kolker, Kolker and Epstein in association with Diamond, Donald, Schmidt & Co. of Toronto.
The thirty-sixth government of Israel, or the Bennett–Lapid government, was the cabinet of Israel that was formed on 13 June 2021 after the 2021 Knesset elections.On 2 June 2021 a coalition agreement was signed between Yesh Atid, Blue and White, Yamina, the Labor Party, Yisrael Beiteinu, New Hope, Meretz, and the United Arab List. [4]
Israel government ministries and garden under construction, 1950s. In December 1949, the Israeli cabinet, then headed by David Ben-Gurion, voted to move most of the country's official government institutions from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. [1] Construction work began in 1950.