The Environmental Protection Minister of Israel is the political head of the Israel

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i Ministry of Environment and a relatively minor position in the Israeli cabinet

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. The post was created on 22 December 1988, and until May 2006 was known as the Minister of the Environment . The current minister is Gilad Erdan

Gilad Erdan

Gilad Menashe Erdan is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud and as the country's Minister of Environmental Protection. He is currently the chairman of the Likud Youth.-Biography:...

 of Likud

Likud

Likud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...

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There has been a Deputy Minister on one occasion.

List of Environmental Protection ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Roni Milo Roni Milo Roni Milo is an Israeli politician, lawyer and journalist, and a former Knesset member who held several ministerial positions. He was also mayor of Tel Aviv from 1993 to 1998.-Political career:...	Likud Likud Likud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...	23	22 December 1988 – 7 March 1990
Rafael Edri Rafael Edri Rafael Edri is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of the Environment and Minister without Portfolio between 1988 and 1990.-Biohgraphy:...	Alignment Alignment (political party) The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party...	23	22 December 1988 – 15 March 1990
Yitzhak Shamir Yitzhak Shamir ' is a former Israeli politician, the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, in 1983–84 and 1986–92.-Biography:Icchak Jeziernicky was born in Ruzhany , Russian Empire . He studied at a Hebrew High School in Białystok, Poland. As a youth he joined Betar, the Revisionist Zionist youth movement...	Likud Likud Likud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...	24	11 June 1990 – 13 July 1992
Ora Namir Ora Namir Ora Namir is an Israeli former politician and diplomat who served as a member of the Knesset from 1974 until 1996, as well as holding the posts of Minister of the Environment and Minister of Labour and Social Welfare during the 1990s. She later became the country's ambassador to China and...	Labor Party	25	13 July 1992 – 31 December 1992
Yossi Sarid Yossi Sarid Yossi Sarid is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006...	Meretz	25, 26	31 December 1992 – 18 June 1996
Rafael Eitan Rafael Eitan Rafael "Raful" Eitan was an Israeli general, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and later a politician, a Knesset member government minister...	Tzomet Tzomet Tzomet is a small secular, right-wing political party in Israel.-Ideology:The party was the one who first brought the "peace for peace" slogan, which today is used by all Israeli right wing parties and movements...	27	18 June 1996 – 6 July 1999
Dalia Itzik Dalia Itzik Dalia Itzik , born 20 October 1952, is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. She has previously served in several ministerial positions, and on 4 May 2006 became the first female speaker of the Knesset, and has since served as President of Israel in an...	One Israel One Israel One Israel was an alliance of the Labor Party, Meimad and Gesher created to run for the 1999 Knesset elections.-Background:One Israel was formed by Labor leader Ehud Barak in the run-up to the 1999 elections with the aim of making Labor appear more centrist and to reduce its secularist and elitist...	28	6 July 1999 – 7 March 2001
Tzachi Hanegbi Tzachi Hanegbi Tzachi Hanegbi is a prominent Israeli lawmaker and security expert. Hanegbi was the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the Knesset. Among the top cabinet positions he previously held are Minister of Justice, Minister of Internal Security and Minister of Intelligence and...	Likud Likud Likud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...	29	7 March 2001 – 28 February 2003
Yehudit Naot Yehudit Naot Professor Yehudit Naot was an Israeli scientist and politician. She served as Minister of the Environment between February 2003 and October 2004....	Shinui Shinui Shinui is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical free market liberal party and political movement in Israel. The party twice became the third largest in the Knesset, but both occasions were followed by a split and collapse; in 1977 the party won 15 seats as part of the Democratic Movement for...	30	28 February 2003 – 17 October 2004
Ilan Shalgi Ilan Shalgi Ilan Shalgi is an Israeli lawyer, politician and a former member of the Knesset.-Background:After his national service in the IDF, in which he served as a lieutenant-colonel, Shalgi gained an LLB and an MA in law from Tel Aviv University...	Shinui Shinui Shinui is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical free market liberal party and political movement in Israel. The party twice became the third largest in the Knesset, but both occasions were followed by a split and collapse; in 1977 the party won 15 seats as part of the Democratic Movement for...	30	17 October 2004 – 4 December 2004 ¹
Shalom Simhon Shalom Simhon Shalom Simhon is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Independence. He currently serves as the Minister of Industry, Trade and Labour and Minister of Minorities in the Israeli cabinet.-Biography:...	Labor Party	30	10 January 2005 – 23 November 2005
Gideon Ezra Gideon Ezra Gideon Ezra is an Israeli politician, member of the Knesset for Kadima and a former Minister of Environmental Protection.-Biography:Ezra was born in Jerusalem and served in the Israeli Defense Force between 1955 and 1958 in the Nahal...	Kadima Kadima Kadima is a centrist and liberal political party in Israel. It was established on 24 November 2005 by moderates from Likud largely to support the issue of Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan, and was soon joined by like-minded Labor politicians...	30, 31	18 January 2006 – 31 March 2009
Gilad Erdan Gilad Erdan Gilad Menashe Erdan is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud and as the country's Minister of Environmental Protection. He is currently the chairman of the Likud Youth.-Biography:...	Likud Likud Likud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...	32	31 March 2009 – present

¹ Shalgi served as Acting Minister of the Environment until his appointment was made permanent on 29 November 2004.

Deputy Ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Yigal Bibi Yigal Bibi Yigal Bibi is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1988 and 2003.-Biography:...	National Religious Party National Religious Party The National Religious Party ) was a political party in Israel representing the religious Zionist movement. Formed in 1956, at the time of its dissolution in 2008, it was the second oldest surviving party in the country after Agudat Yisrael, and was part of every government coalition until 1992...	24	20 November 1990 – 13 July 1992

External links

• All Ministers in the Ministry of the Environment Knesset website