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The prime minister of Israel is the head of government and chief executive of the State of Israel.. Since the adoption of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, 14 people have served as the prime minister of Israel, five of whom have served on two or three non-consecutive occasions.
Shimon Peres (1923–2016), Second Vice Prime Minister, May 2006–, former defense and foreign minister, Prime Minister of Israel in 1977, 1984–1986, 1995–1996; Nobel Peace Prize 1994 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 ...
This is a list of prime ministers of Israel by place of birth. Russian Empire (6) David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) — ...
In early 1969 Levi Eshkol died in office of a heart attack and Golda Meir became prime minister with the largest percentage of the vote ever won by an Israeli party, winning 56 of the 120 seats after the 1969 election. Meir was the first female prime minister of Israel and the first woman to have headed a Middle Eastern state in modern times. [62]
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974, once joked that "in Israel, there are 3 million prime ministers". [5] The particular version of proportional representation used, in which the whole country is a single constituency, encourages the formation of a large number of political parties, many with very specialized platforms, and ...
A post shared on social media purportedly shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu getting attacked while delivering a speech. Verdict: False The video shows Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan.
Watch live as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the nation on Tuesday (26 November) following Middle East ceasefire discussions. Netanyahu’s address comes after Israel carried ...