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Additionally, one person, Yigal Allon, has served solely as an acting prime minister. 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.
Golda Meir [nb 1] (née Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government and the first in the Middle East.
12 October – US President Richard Nixon authorizes Operation Nickel Grass, an overt strategic airlift to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel, after the Soviet Union began sending arms to Egypt and Syria. 17 October – The Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which allegedly support Israel triggers the 1973 energy crisis.
6 April – Poogy represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Natati La Khayay" ("I Gave Her My Life"), achieving seventh place. [1] 11 April – Golda Meir resigns from premiership. 14 April – The Open University of Israel is founded. [2] 15 April – Mordechai Gur is appointed as the tenth Chief of Staff of the Israel ...
The sixteenth government of Israel was formed by Golda Meir on 10 March 1974, following the December 1973 elections.However, following Meir's resignation as Prime Minister on 11 April, it only remained in office until 3 June, and at just 85 days, was the shortest-lived government in Israeli political history.
In 1975 Benjamin Halevi left Likud to sit as an independent, whilst Shmuel Tamir and Akiva Nof left Likud to form the Free Centre the following year. [2] In 1977 Hillel Seidel defected from the Independent Liberals to Likud, whilst Mordechai Ben-Porat broke away from the Alignment and sat as an independent.
The fifteenth government of Israel was formed by Golda Meir on 15 December 1969 following the October elections.The government was a continuation of the national unity government formed during the previous Knesset, and consisted of the Alignment, Gahal, the National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals and the Israeli Arab parties Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood.
Michael Hasani (30 October 1974 - 2 July 1975) 5: National Religious Party: Yitzhak Rabin (7 July 1975 - 29 July 1975) Alignment: Yosef Burg (29 July 1975 - 4 November 1975) National Religious Party: Zevulun Hammer (4 November 1975 - 22 December 1976) National Religious Party: Moshe Baram (from 16 January 1977) Alignment: Minister without Portfolio