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• Aharon Abuhatzera, former minister, head of the 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...
  
  
• Yosef Almogi
  Yosef Almogi
  Yosef Aharon Almogi was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1955 and 1977, as well as holding several ministerial posts.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister and mayor of Haifa
  Haifa
  Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
  
  
• Yigal Allon
  Yigal Allon
  Yigal Allon was an Israeli politician, a commander of the Palmach, and a general in the IDF. He served as one of the leaders of Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Israeli Labor party, and acting Prime Minister of Israel, and was a member of the Knesset and government minister from the 10th through the...
  
  , former general, government minister
• Shulamit Aloni
  Shulamit Aloni
  Shulamit Aloni is an Israeli politician and left-wing activist. She is a prominent member of the Israeli peace camp, founded the Ratz party and was leader of the Meretz party and served as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993.-Biography:...
  
  , founder of Human Rights party, former minister in 1974, 1992–1996
• Meir Amit
  Meir Amit
  Meir Amit was an Israeli politician and general. He served as Director of the Mossad from 1963 to 1968 before entering politics and holding two ministerial positions.-Biography:...
  
  , former general, minister, head of Mossad
  Mossad
  The Mossad , short for HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuchadim , is the national intelligence agency of Israel....
  
  
• Yehuda Amital
  Yehuda Amital
  Yehuda Amital was an Orthodox rabbi, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Israeli cabinet.-Biography:Amital was born in Oradea in Romania. When Germany occupied the area in 1944, the Nazis sent his entire family to Auschwitz where they were killed. Amital was sent to...
  
  , Rabbi, former minister without portfolio, leader of Meimad
  Meimad
  Meimad is a left-wing religious Zionist political party in Israel. Founded in 1999, it is based on the ideology of the Meimad movement founded in 1988 by Rabbi Yehuda Amital. At the national level, it was in alliance with the Labour Party, and until the 2006 elections, received 10th spot on the...
  
  
• Shaul Amor
  Shaul Amor
  Shaul Amor was an Israeli politician who served as a Minister without Portfolio between January and July 1999.-Biography:Born in Boujad, Morocco in 1940, Amor made aliyah in 1956. He studied at the Social Work institute in Haifa, and served as mayor of Migdal HaEmek.In 1988 he was elected to the...
  
  , former minister, candidate for presidency
• Zalman Aran
  Zalman Aran
  -Biography:Aran was born Zalman Aharonowitz in 1899 in Yuzovka in the Russian Empire , and received a religious education in a heder. He later studied agriculture in Kharkov. In his youth, he was active in Tze'irei Zion, and in 1917 became a member of the "Self-Defense Organization Committee" of...
  
  , former minister
• Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino
  Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino
  Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health between 1986 and 1988.-Biography:Born in Mosul in Iraq, Arbeli-Almozlino studied to be a teacher before making aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1947. In 1948 she joined Ahdut HaAvoda and became a member of the...
  
  , former health minister
• Moshe Arens
  Moshe Arens
  Moshe Arens is an Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher and former diplomat and politician. A member of the Knesset between 1973 and 1992 and again from 1999 until 2003, he served as Minister of Defense three times and once as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Arens has also served as the Israeli...
  
  , former minister of defense, former ambassador to the U.S.
• Yoram Aridor
  Yoram Aridor
  Yoram Aridor is an Israeli former politician, who served as a member of the Knesset from 1969 until 1988, as well as holding two ministerial posts.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister
• Colette Avital
  Colette Avital
  Colette Avital is an Israeli diplomat and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party and One Israel between 1999 and 2009.-Biography:...
  
  , Israeli diplomat, member of Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
   since 1999.
• Shmuel Avital
  Shmuel Avital
  Shmuel Avital is a former Israeli politician who served as a Minister without Portfolio responsible for Social Co-ordination from March 2001 until February 2002.-Biography:Born in Casablanca in Morocco, Avital made aliyah to Israel in 1953...
  
  , former minister
• Ruhama Avraham
  Ruhama Avraham
  Ruhama Avraham Balila is an Israeli politician. A member of the Knesset for Kadima, she has previously served as Minister of Tourism and Minister without Portfolio responsible for liaison with the Knesset.-Biography:...
  
  , MK since 2003.

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• Ehud Barak
  Ehud Barak
  Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister from 1999 until 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party until January 2011 and holds the posts of Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister in Binyamin Netanyahu's government....
  
   (b. 1942), former chief of staff, Israeli Prime Minister 1999–2001
• Moshe Baram
  Moshe Baram
  Moshe Baram was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1969 and 1977, and also as Minister of Labour and Minister of Welfare.-Background:...
  
  , former minister
• Uzi Baram
  Uzi Baram
  Uzi Baram is an Israeli former politician, who served as a member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2001, and was Minister of Tourism and Minister of Internal Affairs in the 1990s.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister, son of Moshe Baram
  Moshe Baram
  Moshe Baram was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1969 and 1977, and also as Minister of Labour and Minister of Welfare.-Background:...
  
  
• Haim Bar-Lev, former Chief of Staff, minister, ambassador to Russia
• Yisrael Bar-Yehuda (1895–1965), former minister, divorced from Beba Idelson
  Beba Idelson
  -Biography:Trakhtenbereg was born in Ekaterinoslav in the Russian Empire in 1895. When she was eight, her mother died giving birth to her thirteenth child and at the age of fourteen she lost her father, Yitzhak, as well, and so she, along with her grandmother and brother, had to support the family...
  
  
• Yisrael Barzilai
  Yisrael Barzilai
  Yisrael Barzilai was an Israeli politician who served as a government minister during the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.-Biography:Born in an area that was later to become part of Poland), Barzilai joined Hashomer Hatzair at the age of 11. In 1932 he moved to Paris to study, before making aliyah to...
  
  , former minister
• Benny Begin, former minister, son of Prime Minister Menachem Begin
  Menachem Begin
  ' was a politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944,...
  
  
• Menachem Begin
  Menachem Begin
  ' was a politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944,...
  
   (1913–1992), former head of Irgun
  Irgun
  The Irgun , or Irgun Zevai Leumi to give it its full title , was a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization haHaganah...
  
  , Prime Minister 1977–1983, Nobel Peace Prize
  Nobel Peace Prize
  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
  
   1978
• Yossi Beilin
  Yossi Beilin
  Dr. Yosef "Yossi" Beilin is a left-wing Israeli politician and a former Knesset member, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and Justice Minister, representing both the Labor Party and Meretz-Yachad, of which he served as chairman between 2003 and 2006. He is best known for his involvement with the...
  
  , former Labor party minister, leader of Meretz-Yachad
  Meretz-Yachad
  New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, social democratic political party in Israel....
  
  
• Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
  Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
  Yitzhak Ben-Aharon was an Israeli left-wing politician.He was a Knesset member from the first to the fifth Knessets and in the seventh and eighth, and a former Minister of Transport and General secretary of the Histadrut. The philosopher Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon is his son.-Early life and...
  
   (b. 1906), former minister, former Histadrut leader
• Shlomo Ben-Ami
  Shlomo Ben-Ami
  Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli diplomat, politician and historian.-Biography:Ben-Ami was born in Tangiers, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel in 1955....
  
  , former foreign affairs minister, ambassador, Professor
• Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
  Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
  Binyamin Fuad Ben-Eliezer , , born 12 February 1936) is an Israeli politician and former military officer of Iraqi origin. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party, and has held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Industry, Trade and Labour, Minister of...
  
  , former defense minister
• David Ben-Gurion
  David Ben-Gurion
  ' was the first Prime Minister of Israel.Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, led him to become a major Zionist leader and Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946...
  
   (1886–1973), founder of Israel, first Prime Minister of Israel
  Prime Minister of Israel
  The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...
  
   1948–1953 1954–1963
• Shlomo Benizri
  Shlomo Benizri
  Shlomo Benizri is an Israeli politician and member of the Shas party. He represented Shas in the Knesset between 1992 and 2008, serving as Deputy Health Minister, Minister of Health, and Labor and Social Welfare Minister during the late 1990s and early 2000s...
  
  , former minister
• Mordechai Ben-Porat
  Mordechai Ben-Porat
  Mordechai Ben-Porat is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister without Portfolio from July 1982 until January 1984. During his four terms in the Knesset, he represented five different parties.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister without portfolio
• Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
  Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
  Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, the second and longest-serving President of Israel.-Biography:...
  
  , second President of Israel
• Mordechai Bentov
  Mordechai Bentov
  Mordechai Bentov was an Israeli journalist and politician, and was one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.-Biography:...
  
  , first minister of construction and housing
• Yitzhak Berman
  Yitzhak Berman
  Yitzhak Berman is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Energy and Infrastructure from August 1981 until September 1982. He was also Speaker of the Knesset from 1980 until 1981.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister, former Speaker of Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
  
• Peretz Bernstein
  Peretz Bernstein
  Peretz Bernstein was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister
• Azmi Bishara
  Azmi Bishara
  Azmi Bishara , a former member of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, is a Palestinian intellectual, academic, politician, and writer.In 2007, Bishara fled Israel and resigned from the Knesset after being questioned by police on suspicion of aiding and passing information to the enemy during...
  
  , Arab-Israeli MP & head of Balad party
• Victor Breilovsky, was minister of science and technology for 4 days.
• Yosef Burg
  Yosef Burg
  Yosef Shlomo Burg was an Israeli politician. In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset, and served in many ministerial positions for the next 40 years. He was one of the founders of the National Religious Party.-Biography:...
  
  , Rabbi, former minister, leader of the 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...
  
  

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• Moshe Carmel
  Moshe Carmel
  Moshe Carmel was an Israeli soldier and politician who served as Minister of Transportation for eight years.-Background:Born in Mińsk Mazowiecki in the Russian Empire , Carmel emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1924 when he was 13 years old. He was a founding member of kibbutz Na'an, and was...
  
  , former party leader and army commander, former Transportation minister
• Haim Cohn. former Attorney General
  Attorney General
  In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...
  
  , former justice minister, former Supreme Court
  Supreme court
  A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, high court, or apex court...
  
   justice, former State Attorney
• Geula Cohen
  Geula Cohen
  Geulah Cohen is an Israeli former Irgun and Lehi member, politician, and journalist.-Biography:Geulah Cohen was born in Tel Aviv during the British Mandate of Palestine...
  
  , former deputy minister, founder of Tehyia party
• Raanan Cohen, former minister of labour
• Rachel Cohen-Kagan
  Rachel Cohen-Kagan
  Rachel Cohen-Kagan was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician, and one of only two women to sign the Israeli declaration of independence.-Biography:...
  
  , chairman of WIZO
  Women's International Zionist Organization
  The Women's International Zionist Organization , is a volunteer organization dedicated to social welfare in all sectors of Israeli society, the advancement of the status of women, and Jewish education in Israel and the Diaspora.-History:...
  
  , signed declaration of independence, MK
• Ran Cohen
  Ran Cohen
  Ran Cohen is an Israeli politician and former Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad. He is a resident of Mevaseret Zion and married with four children....
  
  , Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad
  Meretz-Yachad
  New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, social democratic political party in Israel....
  
  , former minister of industry and commerce
• Yitzhak Cohen
  Yitzhak Cohen
  Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen is an Israeli politician who has served as a member of the Knesset for Shas since 1996, and is the current Deputy Minister of Finance.-Biography:Born in Ashkelon, Cohen served on the city's council and was its former deputy mayor....
  
  , former minister, from Shas
  Shas
  Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party in Israel, primarily representing Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Judaism.Shas was founded in 1984 by dissident members of the Ashkenazi dominated Agudat Israel, to represent the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi ...
  
   party
• Yigal Cohen-Orgad
  Yigal Cohen-Orgad
  Yigal Cohen-Orgad is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Finance from October 1983 until September 1984.Today Cohen-Orgad is Chancellor of the Ariel University Center of Samaria.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister

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• Nissim Dahan
  Nissim Dahan
  Nissim Dahan is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health from 2001 until 2003.-Biography:Born in Morocco, Dahan's family made aliyah in 1955. He worked in the Ministry of Religious Affairs, becoming director of its organisations and institutions department...
  
  , former health minister
• Moshe Dayan
  Moshe Dayan
  Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces , he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel...
  
  , former chief of staff, defense and foreign minister
• Yael Dayan
  Yael Dayan
  Yaël Dayan is an Israeli politician and author. She served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2003, and is currently the chair of Tel Aviv city council. She is the daughter of Moshe Dayan and sister of Assi Dayan.-Biography:...
  
  , former Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
   member, active feminist, deputy mayor of Tel-Aviv
• Aryeh Deri
  Aryeh Deri
  Aryeh Deri is an Israeli politician, and former leader of Israel's Shas Party.-Biography:After Deri was convicted of taking $155,000 in bribes while serving as Interior Minister and given a three-year jail sentence in 2000, he was replaced by Eli Yishai...
  
  , former minister, leader of Shas
  Shas
  Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party in Israel, primarily representing Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Judaism.Shas was founded in 1984 by dissident members of the Ashkenazi dominated Agudat Israel, to represent the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi ...
  
   party
• Ben-Zion Dinur
  Ben-Zion Dinur
  -Biography:Dinaburg was born in 1884 in Khorol in the Russian Empire . He received his education in Lithuanian yeshivot. He studied under Shimon Shkop in the Telz Yeshiva, and became interested in the Haskalah through Rosh Yeshiva Eliezer Gordon's polemics. In 1898 he moved to the Slabodka yeshiva...
  
  , former minister of education, professor
• Sara Doron, former minister without portfolio
• Aryeh Leib Dulchin, former minister, former chairman of Jewish Agency

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• Abba Eban
  Abba Eban
  Abba Eban was an Israeli diplomat and politician.In his career he was Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations...
  
   (1915–2002), diplomat and Foreign Minister of Israel 1966–1974
• Yuli-Yoel Edelstein
  Yuli-Yoel Edelstein
  Yuli-Yoel Edelstein is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud and as the country's Minister of Information and Diaspora.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister of immigrant absorption
• 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:...
  
  , former minister
• Simha Ehrlich, former finance minister
• Effi Eitam
  Effi Eitam
  Efraim "Effi" Eitam is an Israeli politician. A former leader of the National Religious Party, he later led a breakaway faction, Ahi, which merged into Likud in 2009. He served as a member of the Knesset between 2003 and 2009.-Biography:...
  
  , Israeli general, leader of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party
  Renewed Religious National Zionist party
  Ahi was a right-wing nationalist religious Zionist political party in Israel. Founded in 2005, it was part of the National Union alliance between 2006 and 2008. For the 2009 elections it ran a joint list with Likud.-History:...
  
  , former minister
• Michael Eitan
  Michael Eitan
  Michael Eitan is an Israeli politician, Minister of Improvement of Government Services and member of the Knesset for Likud. He served as Minister of Science & Technology between July 1997 and July 1998. Alongside Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Eitan is the joint longest-serving MK, and as such was...
  
  , former minister of Science and Technology
• 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...
  
   (1929–2004), former Chief of Staff, former minister
• Binyamin Elon
  Binyamin Elon
  Rabbi Binyamin "Benny" Elon is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Moledet and the National Union between 1996 and 2009. A ninth-generation Jerusalemite, Elon has lived in Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank for the last twenty years...
  
  , former minister, leader of Moledet
  Moledet
  Moledet is a small right-wing political party in Israel. It advocates the notion of encouraging voluntary population transfer of the Arab population of the West Bank. Moledet was founded in 1988 by Rehavam Ze'evi, who headed it until his assassination by members of the PFLP in 2001, after which...
  
   party
• Tamar Eshel
  Tamar Eshel
  -Biography:Born in London while her parents were emissaries of the Jewish Agency in England, Eshel returned with them to Mandate Palestine in 1923. Her mother was a member of the well-known Feinberg and Belkind families and a sister of Avshalom Feinberg. Her father was among the first attorneys in...
  
  , Israeli representative in several UN organizations, member of Knesset
• Levi Eshkol
  Levi Eshkol
  ' served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office.-Biography:...
  
  , former Prime Minister of Israel
  Prime Minister of Israel
  The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...
  
   1963–1969
• 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...
  
  , Israeli minister

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• Yisrael Galili
  Yisrael Galili
  Yisrael Galili was an Israeli politician, government minister and member of Knesset. Before Israel's independence in 1948, he had served as Chief of Staff of the Haganah.-Biography:...
  
   (1911–1986), former minister
• Inbal Gavriely, youngest person elected to Knesset
• Yaakov Geri, former Minister of Industry and Commerce
• Akiva Govrin
  Akiva Govrin
  Akiva Govrin was an Israeli politician who served as a government minister between December 1963 and January 1966, and was the country's first Minister of Tourism.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister of Tourism
• Tamar Gozansky
  Tamar Gozansky
  -Background:Born in Petah Tikva during the Mandate era to a Russian family, Gozansky studied in Russia, gaining an MSc in Economics from Leningrad State University. She later worked as an economist.-Political career:...
  
  , former member of Knesset for communist party
• Yitzhak Gruenbaum
  Yitzhak Gruenbaum
  Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a noted leader of the Zionist movement among Polish Jewry between the two world wars and of the Yishuv in Mandatory Palestine, and the first Interior Minister of Israel.-Education and journalistic career:Gruenbaum was born in Warsaw, Poland...
  
  , first Minister of Interior
• Haika Grossman, member of Knesset, first woman to head of a regional council
• Pesach Grupper, former Minister of Agriculture
• Mordechai Gur
  Mordechai Gur
  Following his retirement from the IDF, Gur was appointed as the general manager of Kur Mechanica company. In 1981 he was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Alignment. Re-elected in 1984, he served as Minister of Health and was also a member of the Knesset's Security and Foreign Affairs...
  
  , former Chief of Staff, former minister
• Haim Gvati, former minister

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• Zevulun Hammer
  Zevulun Hammer
  Zevulun Hammer was an Israeli politician, minister and Deputy Prime Minister.-Biography:Hammer was born in Haifa during the British Mandate of Palestine. He was an active member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement , and served in the Israeli Armored Corps in a Nahal programme...
  
  , former minister, leader of 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , member of government. Son of Geula Cohen
  Geula Cohen
  Geulah Cohen is an Israeli former Irgun and Lehi member, politician, and journalist.-Biography:Geulah Cohen was born in Tel Aviv during the British Mandate of Palestine...
  
  
• Michael Harish
  Michael Harish
  Michael Harish is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Industry and Trade between 1992 and 1996. Since 23 January 2011, he has served as the temporary chairman of the Labor Party, following the resignation of Ehud Barak as party chairman....
  
  . former minister of industry and commerce
• Zena Harman, chairman of UNICEF, member of Knesset, gave UNICEF's Nobel lecture
• Gideon Hausner
  Gideon Hausner
  Gideon Hausner was an Israeli jurist and politician. Between 1960 and 1963 he served as Attorney General, and was later elected to the Knesset and served in the cabinet....
  
  , former justice minister, attorney at the Eichmann trial
• Yaakov Michael Hazani, former minister
• Chaim Herzog
  Chaim Herzog
  Chaim Herzog served as the sixth President of Israel , following a distinguished career in both the British Army and the Israel Defense Forces .-Early life:...
  
  , former general and diplomat, sixth President of Israel, born Vivian Herzog in Belfast, UK
• Isaac Herzog, member of government, son of President Haim Herzog
• Shlomo Hillel
  Shlomo Hillel
  Shlomo Hillel is an Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician who served as Speaker of the Knesset, Minister of Police and Minister of Internal Affairs. He was also an ambassador to several countries in Africa.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister, former Speaker of Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
  
• Yigal Hurvitz
  Yigal Hurvitz
  Yigal Hurvitz was an Israeli politician who served as a government minister in the late 1970s and 1980s.-Biography:Hurvitz was born in Nahlat Yehuda in 1918. Between 1938 and 1941 he was a member of the secretariat of HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, and served in the Jewish Brigade during World War II...
  
  , former finance minister
• Abba Hushi
  Abba Hushi
  Abba Hushi was an Israeli politician who served as mayor of Haifa for eighteen years between 1951 to 1969. Hushi was one of the founders and activists of Hashomer Hatzair movement in Poland. In July 1920, he immigrated to Palestine with a group of 130 Jewish pioneers. In Palestine, he took the...
  
   (1898–1969), politician and mayor of Haifa
  Haifa
  Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
  
   1951–1969.

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• Beba Idelson
  Beba Idelson
  -Biography:Trakhtenbereg was born in Ekaterinoslav in the Russian Empire in 1895. When she was eight, her mother died giving birth to her thirteenth child and at the age of fourteen she lost her father, Yitzhak, as well, and so she, along with her grandmother and brother, had to support the family...
  
  , leader of the Pioneer Women movement. Member of Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
  
• Feige Ilanit, member of first Knesset, mother of Uri Ilan
  Uri Ilan
  Uri Ilan was an Israeli soldier who committed suicide in a Syrian prison, after being captured in a covert operation on the Golan Heights. He became a symbol of courage and patriotism in Israel.-Early life:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , member of the government.

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• Avigdor Kahalani
  Avigdor Kahalani
  Brigadier-General Avigdor Kahalani is a former Israeli soldier and politician.-Background:Kahalani was born in Ness Ziona during the Mandate era. He studied at Tel Aviv University, gaining a B.A. in History, before going on to Haifa University, where he studied for an M.A. in Political Science...
  
  , former minister of internal security 1996–1999, general
• Meir Kahane
  Meir Kahane
  Martin David Kahane , also known as Meir Kahane , was an American-Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist writer and political figure. He was an ordained Orthodox rabbi and later served as a member of the Israeli Knesset...
  
  , founder of Kach party (subsequently banned) (assassinated)
• Eliezer Kaplan
  Eliezer Kaplan
  Eliezer Kaplan was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence and the country's first Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister.-Biography:...
  
  , first finance minister
• Moshe Katsav
  Moshe Katsav
  Moshe Katsav is an Israeli politician. He served as the eighth President of Israel, a leading Likud member of the Israeli Knesset, and a Cabinet Minister in its government....
  
   (b. 1945), former President of Israel (2000-2007)
• Yisrael Katz, former minister of labour (1974–1977)
• Yisrael Katz
  Yisrael Katz (politician born 1955)
  Yisrael Katz is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud and as the country's Minister of Transportation.-Biography:Born in Ashkelon, Katz earned a BA and an MA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
  
  , minister of agriculture since 2003, 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...
  
   party
• Berl Katznelson
  Berl Katznelson
  Berl Katznelson was one the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the establishment of the modern State of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement.-Biography:...
  
  
• Avraham Katz-Oz
  Avraham Katz-Oz
  Avraham Katz-Oz is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 1977 until 1996, and as Minister of Agriculture from 1988 until 1990.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister of agriculture
• Yisrael Kessar, former Histadrut
  Histadrut
  HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael , known as the Histadrut, is Israel's organization of trade unions. Established in December 1920 during the British Mandate for Palestine, it became one of the most powerful institutions of the State of Israel.-History:The Histadrut was founded in...
  
   leader, minister of transportation
• Michael Kleiner
  Michael Kleiner
  Michael Kleiner is an Israeli politician and leader of Herut – The National Movement.He first entered the Knesset in 1981 as a Likud parliamentarian but, upon then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relinquishing Hebron to the Palestinian Authority, Kleiner split off from the Likud along with Benny...
  
  , leader of Herut
• Moshe Kol
  Moshe Kol
  Moshe Kol was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.-Biography:Born in Pinsk in the Russian Empire , Kol studied at a heder and Hebrew high school in his home town, and was one of the founders of HaOved HaTzioni youth...
  
  , former minister
• Haim Korfo, former minister

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• Haim Landau
  Haim Landau
  Haim Landau was an Israeli independence fighter, Knesset member and Minister in the government of Menachem Begin.-Career:Landau was born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary and made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1935...
  
  , former minister
• Uzi Landau
  Uzi Landau
  Uzi Landau is an Israeli politician, member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and Minister of National Infrastructure. Previously a Likud MK, he served as Minister of Internal Security between 2001 and 2003.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister. Son of Haim Landau
  Haim Landau
  Haim Landau was an Israeli independence fighter, Knesset member and Minister in the government of Menachem Begin.-Career:Landau was born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary and made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1935...
  
  
• Tommy Lapid, former minister of Justice (2003–2004) and leader of 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...
  
   party, Holocaust
  The Holocaust
  The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
  
   survivor
• Zipora Laskov, foundeer of public medicine in Israel, elected to third Knesset
• Pinhas Lavon
  Pinhas Lavon
  Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician, minister and labor leader, best known for the Lavon Affair.-Early life:Lavon was born as Pinhas Lubianiker in Kopychyntsi in what was previously Galicia in Austria-Hungary . He studied law at the University of Lviv, where he organized Histadrut organizations...
  
  , former defense minister
• Yitzhak-Meir Levin
  Yitzhak-Meir Levin
  Rabbi Yitzhak-Meir Levin was an Haredi politician. He had political roles in Poland and Israel. One of 37 people to sign the Israeli declaration of independence, he served in several Israeli cabinets, and was a longtime leader and Knesset minster for Agudath Israel and related...
  
  , former welfare minister
• David Levy
  David Levy (Israeli politician)
  David Levy is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1969 and 2006, as well as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Minister of Housing & Construction and as a Minister without Portfolio...
  
  , former foreign minister
• Yitzhak Levy
  Yitzhak Levy
  Rabbi Yitzhak Levy is an Israeli rabbi and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party and the Ahi faction of the National Union between 1988 and 2009...
  
  , former minister, leader of Renewed Religious National Zionist party
  Renewed Religious National Zionist party
  Ahi was a right-wing nationalist religious Zionist political party in Israel. Founded in 2005, it was part of the National Union alliance between 2006 and 2008. For the 2009 elections it ran a joint list with Likud.-History:...
  
  
• Amnon Linn
  Amnon Linn
  -Biography:Linn was born in Mishmar HaEmek to Hava and David Linn. He became a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement in 1940, and in 1942 joined the Palmach, fighting in Haifa. He met his wife, Ruth Hushi, daughter of Abba Hushi in 1945, and married her later that same year...
  
   politician and former Knesset member.
• Zita Linker
  Zita Linker
  Zita Linker was an Israeli politician who briefly served as a member of the Knesset for Likud in 1977.-Biography:Born in Vienna in Austria-Hungary, Linker attended high school in her home city, and university in London. She made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1934.She joined the General Zionists,...
  
  , founder of liberal party, member of Knesset
• David Libai, former justice minister
• Avigdor Lieberman, former minister
• Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
  Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
  Amnon Lipkin-Shahak is a former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Member of the Knesset andMinister of Transportation and Tourism.-Military service:Lipkin-Shahak started his military service as a teenager in the military boarding-school in Haifa...
  
  , former Chief of Staff, former tourism minister
• Limor Livnat
  Limor Livnat
  is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud, and as the country's Minister of Culture & Sport.-Biography:Born in Haifa, Livnat is the only member of Knesset not to have a secondary education...
  
  , member of Knesset, former minister
• Tzipi Livni
  Tzipi Livni
  Tzipporah Malkah "Tzipi" Livni is an Israeli lawyer and politician. She is the current Israeli Opposition Leader and leader of Kadima, the largest party in the Knesset. Raised an ardent nationalist, Livni has become one of her nation's leading voices for the two-state solution. In Israel she has...
  
  , Foreign Minister, First Vice Prime Minister (Acting Prime Minister). Daughter of Eitan Livni
  Eitan Livni
  Yeruham "Eitan" Livni was a Revisionist Zionist activist, Irgun commander and Israeli politician, father of Israeli politician Tzipi Livni, who is the current leader of the largest party in the Knesset, Kadima.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kadish Luz
  Kadish Luz
  Kadish Luz was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between 1955 and 1959 and Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister, former Speaker of Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
  

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• David Magen
  David Magen
  David Magen is a former Israeli politician who served as a Minister without Portfolio and Minister of Economics and Planning in the 1990s.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister
• Ada Maimon
  Ada Maimon
  Ada Maimon was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1949 and 1955.-Biography:Born in Mărculeşti in the Russian Empire , Maimon made aliyah to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1912, and was followed by her older brother, Yehuda, the following year. She worked...
  
  , member of Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
  , pioneer of women's rights, sister of Yehuda Leib Maimon
  Yehuda Leib Maimon
  Yehuda Leib Maimon was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the religious Zionism movement, originating from Bessarabia.-Biography:Born in 1875 in Mărculeşti, Bessarabia , Maimon studied in a number of yeshivot and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the author of...
  
  
• Yehuda Leib Maimon
  Yehuda Leib Maimon
  Yehuda Leib Maimon was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the religious Zionism movement, originating from Bessarabia.-Biography:Born in 1875 in Mărculeşti, Bessarabia , Maimon studied in a number of yeshivot and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the author of...
  
  , first minister of religious affairs
• Anat Maor
  Anat Maor
  Anat Maor is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Meretz between 1992 and 2003.-Biography:Born in kibbutz Negba during the Mandate era, Maor studied at Tel Aviv University gaining a BA in history and philosophy and an MA in labour management...
  
  , MK for Meretz
  Meretz-Yachad
  New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, social democratic political party in Israel....
  
   1992–2003
• Yehoshua Matza, former health minister, today Bonds president
• Golda Meir
  Golda Meir
  Golda Meir ; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was a teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel....
  
   (1898–1978), Prime Minister of Israel
  Prime Minister of Israel
  The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...
  
   1969–1974
• Michael Melchior
  Michael Melchior
  A renowned Jewish leader, thinker and activist, Rabbi Michael Melchior is a leading advocate for social justice in Israel, quality education for all, Jewish-Arab reconciliation and co-existence, protection of the environment, Israel-Diaspora relations and the strengthening of Civic Society as a...
  
  , former minister, Chief Rabbi of Denmark
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
  
   and Norway
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
  
• Dan Meridor
  Dan Meridor
  Dan Meridor is an Israeli politician and minister. A longtime member of the Likud party, in the late 1990s he became one of the founders of the Centre Party. He rejoined Likud in the early 2000s, and returned to the Knesset following the 2009 elections...
  
  , former finance and justice minister
• Yaakov Meridor
  Yaakov Meridor
  Ya'akov Meridor was a Revisionist Zionist activist, Irgun commander and Israeli politician.-Biography:Meridor was born in Poland in 1913, to a family of middle-class merchants. After hearing reports of the first Arab rebellion in Mandate Palestine, he became a member of the Betar Movement in 1930...
  
  , former minister
• 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:...
  
  , former minister, mayor of Tel-Aviv 1993–1998
• Binyamin Mintz
  Binyamin Mintz
  Binyamin Mintz was an Israeli politician who served briefly as Minister of Postal Services From July 1960 until his death.-Biography:Born in Łódź in the Russian Empire , Mintz studied in a hasidic Ger school and was a member of Young Agudat Israel...
  
  , minister of communications
• Yitzhak Modai (1926–1998), former finance minister
• Shaul Mofaz
  Shaul Mofaz
  Lt. General Shaul Mofaz is an Israeli politician who serves as the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs And Defense Committee at the Knesset...
  
  , Minister of Transport, former Chief of Staff, defense minister
• Yitzhak Mordechai
  Yitzhak Mordechai
  Yitzhak Mordechai is an Israeli former general and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset between 1996 and 2001, and as Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport. He retired from political life after being indicted for sexual assaults during his military service and later...
  
  , former general, defense minister, leader of Center party

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• Peretz Naftali
  Peretz Naftali
  Peretz Naftali was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician who served in several ministerial portfolios in the 1950s.-Biography:Born in Berlin in Germany, Naftali joined the Social Democratic Party in 1911...
  
  , former minister
• Mordechai Namir
  Mordechai Namir
  Mordechai Namir was an Israeli politician, who served as the mayor of Tel Aviv, a Knesset member and government minister, as well as being one of the heads of the Labour Zionist movement.-Biography:...
  
  , former labour minister, Histadrut leader and mayor of Tel-Aviv
• 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...
  
  , former minister, widow of Mordechai Namir
  Mordechai Namir
  Mordechai Namir was an Israeli politician, who served as the mayor of Tel Aviv, a Knesset member and government minister, as well as being one of the heads of the Labour Zionist movement.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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....
  
   (1944–2004), Professor, former environment minister
• Dan Naveh
  Dan Naveh
  Dan Naveh is a former member of the Israeli Knesset for the Likud party, and a former minister in the Israeli government. Currently he is the founder and the Managing General Partner of Agate medical investments.-Biography:...
  
  , Israeli minister, former Cabinet Secretary
• Yitzhak Navon
  Yitzhak Navon
  Yitzhak Navon is an Israeli politician, diplomat, and author. He served as the fifth President of Israel between 1978 and 1982 as a member of the center-left Alignment party...
  
  , Fifth President of Israel
  President of Israel
  The President of the State of Israel is the head of state of Israel. The position is largely an apolitical ceremonial figurehead role, with the real executive power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister. The current president is Shimon Peres who took office on 15 July 2007...
  
  , former minister
• Yaakov Neeman
  Yaakov Neeman
  Ya'akov Ne'eman is an Israeli lawyer and the current Minister of Justice.-Biography:Ne'eman was born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era. He studied law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a LL.B in 1964...
  
  , former finance and justice minister
• Yuval Ne'eman
  Yuval Ne'eman
  Yuval Ne'eman , was a renowned Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was a minister in the Israeli government in the 1980s and early 1990s.-Biography:...
  
  , scientist, former minister
• Arie Nehemkin, former agriculture minister
• Benjamin Netanyahu
  Benjamin Netanyahu
  Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.Netanyahu is the first and, to...
  
   (b. 1949), current Likud Party leader, former minister of finance and Prime Minister of Israel
  Prime Minister of Israel
  The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...
  
   1996–1999
• Moshe Nissim
  Moshe Nissim
  Moshe Nissim is a former Israeli politician, minister and Deputy Prime Minister.-Background:Born in Mandate Palestine, Nissim studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an MA. He was an Officer of Justice in the IDF during his national service, and went on to work as an attorney...
  
  , former finance and justice minister
• Orit Noked, deputy minister, MK since 2002
• Mordechai Norok, former communications minister

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• Avraham Ofer
  Avraham Ofer
  Avraham Ofer was an Israeli politician, famous for committing suicide following the eruption of a corruption scandal.- Biography :Ofer was born in the Khorostkov shtetl in Poland in 1922, and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933. He went to High School in Jerusalem and studied in the Hebrew...
  
  , former construction and housing minister
• Asher Ohana
  Asher Ohana
  Asher Ohana is an Israeli civil servant who served as Minister of Religious Affairs between 2001 and 2003.Born in Morocco in 1945, Ohana joined Shas in 1992, and served on Beit Shemesh's local council...
  
  , former minister of religious affairs
• Ehud Olmert
  Ehud Olmert
  Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, as a Cabinet Minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006, and as Mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003....
  
  , former Prime Minister, May 2006-2009
• Zevulun Orlev
  Zevulun Orlev
  Zevulun Orlev is an Israeli politician and a former leader of the National Religious Party. He was Minister of Welfare & Social Services , and is currently a Member of the Knesset for the The Jewish Home party...
  
  , former minister of welfare, leader of the 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...
  
  
• Haim Oron
  Haim Oron
  Haim "Jumas" Oron is an Israeli politician and former Minister of Agriculture. He is currently head of the political party New Movement-Meretz, for whom he served as a member of the Knesset.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister of agriculture and rural development

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• Yosef Paritzky
  Yosef Paritzky
  -Background:Paritzky studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he gained an LL.B, and went on to work as an attorney. He is an attorney both in Israel and in New York....
  
  , former minister of infrastructure. Member of 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...
  
  
• Gideon Pat, former minister, former President of Israel Bonds
• Nathan Peled, former Immigrant Absorption minister
• Shimon Peres
  Shimon Peres
  GCMG is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...
  
   (b. 1923), Second Vice Prime Minister, May 2006-, former defense and foreign minister, Prime Minister of Israel
  Prime Minister of Israel
  The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...
  
   in 1977, 1984–1986, 1995–1996; Nobel Peace Prize
  Nobel Peace Prize
  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
  
   1994
• Amir Peretz
  Amir Peretz
  Amir Peretz is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Labour Party. He is a former Defense Minister of Israel and former leader of the Labour Party, having left those positions in June 2007....
  
   (b. 1952), Defense Minister May 2006-, Histadrut leader from 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
  Shas
  Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party in Israel, primarily representing Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Judaism.Shas was founded in 1984 by dissident members of the Ashkenazi dominated Agudat Israel, to represent the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi ...
  
  
• Shoshana Persitz, first female MK at the head of a permanent committee
• Ophir Pines-Paz
  Ophir Pines-Paz
  Ophir Pines-Paz is an Israeli former politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Science, Culture & Sport and as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party from 1996 until 2010.-Biography:...
  
  , Israeli minister
• Rafael Pinhasi
  Rafael Pinhasi
  Rafael Pinhasi is a former Israeli who served as Minister of Communications between 1990 and 1992.Born in Kabul in Afghanistan, Pinhasi's family made aliyah in 1950. He was amongst the founders of Shas, and served as deputy mayor of Bnei Brak....
  
  , former minister, member of Shas
  Shas
  Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party in Israel, primarily representing Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Judaism.Shas was founded in 1984 by dissident members of the Ashkenazi dominated Agudat Israel, to represent the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi ...
  
   party
• Alon Pinkas
  Alon Pinkas
  Alon Pinkas is an Israeli diplomat, who most recently served as Consul general of Israel in the United States. He was succeeded by Aryeh Mekel as Consul General. He is currently a foreign affairs analyst for Fox Television....
  
  , former Consul General of Israel in the United States.
• David-Zvi Pinkas
  David-Zvi Pinkas
  David-Zvi Pinkas was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician. A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, he was the country's third Minister of Transport.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister of transportation
• Avraham Poraz
  Avraham Poraz
  Avraham Poraz is an Israeli lawyer and former politician.- Biography :Poraz was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1945 and immigrated to Israel in 1950...
  
  , former Interior minister

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• Yitzhak Rabin
  Yitzhak Rabin
  ' was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
  
   (1922–1995), former chief of staff, Israeli Prime Minister 1974–1977, 1992–1995; assassinated
• Dalia Rabin-Pelossof
  Dalia Rabin-Pelossof
  Dalia Rabin-Pelossof is a former Israeli politician. The daughter of former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Yitzhak Rabin, she served as a member of the Knesset for the Centre Party, New Way and the Labor Party between 1999 and 2003.-Biography:...
  
  , former deputy minister. Daughter of Yitzhak Rabin
  Yitzhak Rabin
  ' was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
  
  
• Yehoshua Rabinovich, former finance minister and mayor of Tel-Aviv
• Yitzhak Rafael
  Yitzhak Rafael
  Yitzhak Rafael was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Religions in the mid-1970s.-Biography:Rafael was born in Sabov in Galicia in 1914, and attended high school in Poland...
  
  , former minister, son-in-law of Yehuda Leib Maimon
  Yehuda Leib Maimon
  Yehuda Leib Maimon was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the religious Zionism movement, originating from Bessarabia.-Biography:Born in 1875 in Mărculeşti, Bessarabia , Maimon studied in a number of yeshivot and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the author of...
  
  
• Haim Ramon
  Haim Ramon
  Haim Ramon is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1983 and 2009, and as both Vice Prime Minister and Minister in the Prime Minister's Office with responsibility for state policy.-Biography:...
  
  , former Histadrut
  Histadrut
  HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael , known as the Histadrut, is Israel's organization of trade unions. Established in December 1920 during the British Mandate for Palestine, it became one of the most powerful institutions of the State of Israel.-History:The Histadrut was founded in...
  
   leader, minister
• David Remez
  David Remez
  David Remez was an Israeli politician, the country's first Minister of Transportation, and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister of transportation
• Elimelech Shimon Rimalt, former communications minister
• Reuven Rivlin
  Reuven Rivlin
  Reuven "Rubi" Rivlin is an Israeli lawyer, politician, currently serving as a speaker of the Knesset. He belongs to conservative Likud. A former Speaker of the Knesset, in 2007 he ran in the election for President as the Likud candidate...
  
  , former communications minister 2001–2003, Speaker of Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
  
• Yisrael Rokach, former interior minister and mayor of Tel-Aviv
• Pinchas Rosen
  Pinchas Rosen
  Pinchas Rosen was an Israeli politician and statesman, and the country's first Minister of Justice, serving three times during 1948-51, 1952–56, and 1958-61. He was also leader of the Independent Liberals during the 1960s.-Biography:...
  
  , first justice minister
• Shlomo Rosen
  Shlomo Rosen
  Shlomo Rosen was an Israeli politician and minister.Born in Moravská Ostrava in Austria-Hungary , Rosen made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1926. He joined kibbutz Sarid the following year. Between 1933 and 1935 he returned to Ostrava to serve as an emissary for Hashomer Hatzair...
  
  , minister of immigrant absorption
• Pnina Rosenblum
  Pnina Rosenblum
  Pnina Rosenblum is an Israeli businesswoman, model and media personality, who has also been involved in politics.-Career:Rosenblum was an actress and fashion model, known to foreign media in her youth as Pnina Golan. She appeared in the films Kasach , Am Yisrael Hai , Lo LeShidur , Diamante Lobo ,...
  
  , cosmetics queen and former MP.
• Amnon Rubinstein
  Amnon Rubinstein
  Amnon Rubinstein is an Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002, he served in several ministerial positions. He is currently dean of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a patron of Liberal International.-Early life:Rubinstein was born...
  
  , former minister, now dean in Law school
• Elyakim Rubinstein
  Elyakim Rubinstein
  Elyakim Rubinstein was the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004 and is currently serving as a Judge on the Supreme Court of Israel.Rubinstein, a lifelong Israeli diplomat and civil servant, has had an influential role in that country's internal and external politics, most notably in...
  
  , former state attorney general, now supreme court judge

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• Gideon Sa'ar
  Gideon Sa'ar
  Gideon Sa'ar is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud, and as the country's Minister of Education.-Biography:...
  
  , Knesset member, former Cabinet Secretary
• Eliezer Sandberg
  Eliezer Sandberg
  Eliezer Sandberg is a former Israeli politician who served as a government minister between 2003 and 2004.-Biography:Born in Haifa, Sandberg studied law at Tel Aviv University, gaining an LLB. He joined the Tzomet party, and became a member of its secretariat in 1988. He also served as the party's...
  
  , former minister
• Tova Sanhedrai, member of Knesset, first religious woman elected
• Pinchas Sapir
  Pinchas Sapir
  Pinchas Sapir was an Israeli politician during the first three decades following the country's founding.He held two important ministerial posts, Minister of Finance and Minister of Trade and Industry as well as several other high-ranking governmental posts...
  
  , former finance minister
• Yosef Sapir
  Yosef Sapir
  Yosef Sapir was an Israeli politician and Knesset member of the 1st to 7th Knessets. He served as head of the General Zionists and was a founding member of the Gahal party....
  
  , former minister
• 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...
  
  , former education minister and Knesset Member for Meretz-Yachad
  Meretz-Yachad
  New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, social democratic political party in Israel....
  
  
• Eliahu Sasson, former minister
• Ze'ev Scherf, former minister
• Gonen Segev
  Gonen Segev
  Gonen Segev in Kiryat Motzkin is a former Israeli member of Knesset and government minister and pediatrician who was convicted for an attempt of drug smuggling, for forgery and electronic commerce fraud....
  
  , former minister of infrastructure
• Yosef Serlin
  Yosef Serlin
  -Biography:Serlin was born in Białystok in the Russian Empire , where he attended a Hebrew High School. He studied law at the University of Warsaw and was certified as a lawyer in 1929. He was active in the Zionist Movement in Poland and was chairman of the Federation of Academic Zionists in...
  
  , former minister
• Moshe Shahal
  Moshe Shahal
  -Biography:Born in Baghdad in Iraq, Shahal made aliyah in 1950. He studied economics and Political Science at the University of Haifa, before graduating with a law degree from Tel Aviv University....
  
  , former minister
• Avner Hai Shaki, former minister
• 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...
  
  , former minister from 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...
  
  
• Silvan Shalom
  Silvan Shalom
  ' , born 4 October 1958) is an Israeli politician, member of the Knesset for Likud and the country's Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development. He previously served as the country's Foreign Minister and Finance Minister.-Biography:...
  
  , former Israeli minister of finance and foreign affairs
• 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...
  
   (b. 1915), former head of Lehi
  Lehi (group)
  Lehi , commonly referred to in English as the Stern Group or Stern Gang, was a militant Zionist group founded by Avraham Stern in the British Mandate of Palestine...
  
  , Prime Minister of Israel
  Prime Minister of Israel
  The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...
  
   1983–1984, 1986–1992
• Moshe-Haim Shapira, former minister
• Yaakov Shimshon Shapira
  Yaakov Shimshon Shapira
  -Biography:Shapira was born in Kirovograd in the Russian Empire in 1902. He studied in a Yeshiva and later studied medicine at the University of Kharkov. He was active in the Zionist socialist Movement and was incarcerated for his activism from 1923 to 1924...
  
  , former minister
• Yosef Yisrael Shapira, former minister without portfolio from the 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...
  
  
• Natan Sharansky
  Natan Sharansky
  Natan Sharansky was born in Stalino, Soviet Union on 20 January 1948 to a Jewish family. He graduated with a degree in applied mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. As a child, he was a chess prodigy. He performed in simultaneous and blindfold displays, usually against...
  
   former Soviet refusenik
  Refusenik (Soviet Union)
  Refusenik was an unofficial term for individuals, typically but not exclusively, Soviet Jews, who were denied permission to emigrate abroad by the authorities of the former Soviet Union and other countries of the Eastern bloc...
  
  , head of the Yisrael B'Aliyah party, former minister.
• Moshe Sharett
  Moshe Sharett
  Moshe Sharett on 15 October 1894, died 7 July 1965) was the second Prime Minister of Israel , serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms.-Early life:...
  
   (1894–1965), Prime Minister of Israel
  Prime Minister of Israel
  The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...
  
   1953–1955
• Avraham Sharir
  Avraham Sharir
  -Biography:Sharir was born in 1932 in Tel Aviv, where he attended high school. He studied law at the Hebrew University and was certified as a lawyer. From 1954 to 1964 he was secretary of the General Zionist faction in the Knesset...
  
  , former justice minister
• Ariel Sharon
  Ariel Sharon
  Ariel Sharon is an Israeli statesman and retired general, who served as Israel’s 11th Prime Minister. He has been in a permanent vegetative state since suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006....
  
   (b. 1928), former Prime Minister (2002-2006), general, defense minister
• Zalman Shazar
  Zalman Shazar
  Zalman Shazar was an Israeli politician, author. and poet. Shazar served as the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973.-Biography:...
  
  , third President of Israel
  President of Israel
  The President of the State of Israel is the head of state of Israel. The position is largely an apolitical ceremonial figurehead role, with the real executive power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister. The current president is Shimon Peres who took office on 15 July 2007...
  
  , former Education minister
• Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit
  Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit
  Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit was an Israeli politician, minister and the only signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence to have been born in the country...
  
  , former minister
• Meir Sheetrit
  Meir Sheetrit
  Meir Sheetrit is a Moroccan-born Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Kadima. He has served as Minister of the Interior, Minister of Housing & Construction, Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice, Minister of Transportation and Minister of Education, Culture &...
  
  , Israeli minister
• Shimon Sheetrit
  Shimon Sheetrit
  Prof. Shimon Shetreet is a former Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios between 1992 and 1996.-Biography:Born in Erfoud in Morocco, Shetreet's family made aliyah to Israel in 1949. He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an LLB and LLM...
  
  , former minister
• Victor Shem-Tov
  Victor Shem-Tov
  Victor Shem-Tov is a former Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the late 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:Born in Bulgaria to a family of Samokov goldsmiths, Shem-Tov mostly lived in the capital Sofia and was a member of the Maccabi Youth movement. He made aliyah in 1939, the...
  
  , former health minister, Secretary General of Mapam
  Mapam
  Mapam was a political party in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party.-History:Mapam was formed by a January 1948 merger of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party and Ahdut HaAvoda Poale Zion Movement. The party was originally Marxist-Zionist in its outlook and represented...
  
   1979-1985
• Avraham Shohat, former finance minister, son-in-law of Levi Eshkol
  Levi Eshkol
  ' served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office.-Biography:...
  
  
• Eliezer Shostak
  Eliezer Shostak
  Eliezer Shostak was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health from 1977 until 1984 and as a member of the Knesset from 1951 until 1988.-Biography:...
  
  , former health minister
• 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:...
  
  , Israeli minister
• Efraim Sneh
  Efraim Sneh
  Efraim Sneh is an Israeli politician, physician, and a retired Brigadier General in the Israel Defense Forces. He was a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 1992 and 2008 and served in several ministerial posts...
  
  , former minister, general. Son of Moshe Sneh
  Moshe Sneh
  Moshe Sneh was an Israeli politician and military figure. One of the founders of Mapam, he later joined the Israeli Communist Party , and was one of the leaders of a more pro-Israeli split in 1965.-Biography:...
  
  
• Moshe Sneh
  Moshe Sneh
  Moshe Sneh was an Israeli politician and military figure. One of the founders of Mapam, he later joined the Israeli Communist Party , and was one of the leaders of a more pro-Israeli split in 1965.-Biography:...
  
   (1909–1900), Israeli politician, leader of Hagana
• Eliahu Suissa, former minister, member of Shas
  Shas
  Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party in Israel, primarily representing Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Judaism.Shas was founded in 1984 by dissident members of the Ashkenazi dominated Agudat Israel, to represent the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi ...
  
   party

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• Yitzhak Tabenkin
  Yitzhak Tabenkin
  -External links:...
  
  , leader of the Kibbutz movement, namesake of Yad Tabenkin in Ramat Efal outside of Tel Aviv
• Shmuel Tamir
  Shmuel Tamir
  Shmuel M. Tamir was a prominent Israeli independence fighter, lawyer, Knesset member from 1965 to 1980, and Minister of Justice in the government of Menachem Begin from 1977 until 1980-Irgun:...
  
  , former justice minister. Son of Bat-Sheva Katznelson
• Yuli Tamir
  Yuli Tamir
  Yael "Yuli" Tamir is an Israeli academic and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 2003 and 2010, and as Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Education.-Biography:...
  
  , former immigrant absorption minister 1999–2001
• Salah Tarif
  Salah Tarif
  Salah Tarif is a Druze Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2006. When appointed Minister without Portfolio by Ariel Sharon in 2001, he became Israel's first non-Jewish government minister.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister, first druze
  Druze
  The Druze are an esoteric, monotheistic religious community, found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, which emerged during the 11th century from Ismailism. The Druze have an eclectic set of beliefs that incorporate several elements from Abrahamic religions, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism...
  
   in the government
• Moshe Yaakov Toledano, former religious affairs minister, chief rabbi of Tel-Aviv
• Yair Tzaban
  Yair Tzaban
  -Biography:Tzaban was born in Jerusalem in 1930. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he fought in the Palmach. He was among the founders of Kibbutz Tzora, near Jerusalem....
  
  , former minister of immigrant absorption 1992–1996, aid to Moshe Sneh
  Moshe Sneh
  Moshe Sneh was an Israeli politician and military figure. One of the founders of Mapam, he later joined the Israeli Communist Party , and was one of the leaders of a more pro-Israeli split in 1965.-Biography:...
  
  
• Aharon Tzizling, former minister
• Yaakov Tzur, former minister

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• Zerah Warhaftig, former minister, leader of 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...
  
  
• Chaim Weizmann
  Chaim Weizmann
  Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
  
   (1874–1952) leading Zionist and scientist, first President of Israel
  President of Israel
  The President of the State of Israel is the head of state of Israel. The position is largely an apolitical ceremonial figurehead role, with the real executive power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister. The current president is Shimon Peres who took office on 15 July 2007...
  
   1949–1952
• Ezer Weizman
  Ezer Weizman
  ' was the seventh President of Israel, first elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1998. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli Air Force and Minister of Defense.-Biography:...
  
  , seventh President of Israel
  President of Israel
  The President of the State of Israel is the head of state of Israel. The position is largely an apolitical ceremonial figurehead role, with the real executive power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister. The current president is Shimon Peres who took office on 15 July 2007...
  
  , former minister, Air Force commander

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• Gad Yaacobi
  Gad Yaacobi
  Gad Yaacobi was an Israeli Minister, Alignment Knesset member, and Israel Ambassador to the United Nations.-Biography:Yaacobi was born in Kfar Vitkin during Mandate era, where he completed his high-school studies...
  
  , former minister, ambassador to the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
  
• Aharon Yadlin
  Aharon Yadlin
  -Biography:Yadlin was born in moshav Ben Shemen in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1926. He was active in the local scouting movement and served as its national coordinator. In 1946 he participated in the 11 points in the Negev project and was among the founders of kibbutz Be'eri...
  
  , former minister
• Shaul Yahalom
  Shaul Yahalom
  Shaul Yahalom is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2006 for the National Religious Party.-Biography:...
  
  , former transportation minister
• Aharon Yariv
  Aharon Yariv
  Aharon "Aharale" Rabinovich Yariv was an Israeli politician and soldier.Born in Moscow in the Soviet Union. When he was 15 he immigrated to Israel and studied at the Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School. Yariv began his military service in the Haganah and later the British Army. He then joined...
  
  , former minister, general
• Eli Yishai
  Eli Yishai
  Eliyahu "Eli" Yishai is an Israeli politician and head of the Shas party. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Shas, and as both one of four Deputy Prime Ministers and Minister of Internal Affairs.- Political life :...
  
  , current Deputy Prime Minister, leader of the Shas
  Shas
  Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party in Israel, primarily representing Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Judaism.Shas was founded in 1984 by dissident members of the Ashkenazi dominated Agudat Israel, to represent the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi ...
  
   party
• Yisrael Yeshayahu
  Yisrael Yeshayahu
  Yisrael Yeshayahu Sharabi was a Yemen-born Israeli politician, minister and the fifth Speaker of the Knesset.-Biography:Born in Sa'dah, Yemen, Yeshayahu was a member of the Dor Daim movement, before making aliyah in 1929...
  
  , former minister, former Speaker of Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
  
• Dov Yosef
  Dov Yosef
  Dov Yosef was an Israeli politician and statesman. Yosef served in a variety of ministerial positions during the first two Knessets and was the country's second Minister of Justice, serving twice .-Background:...
  
  , former minister
• Giora Yoseftal
  Giora Yoseftal
  Dr Giora Yoseftal was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the late 1950s and early 1960s.-Biography:Born in Nuremberg in Germany, Yoseftal was a member of the Yiddisher Yudenbund youth movement in his teens...
  
  , former minister, husband of Senta josephtal
  Senta Josephtal
  -Background:Yoseftal was born in Germany. She joined the HaBonim movement in 1933 and worked in HeHalutz Center in Berlin from 1934 to 1938. In 1936 she married Giora Yoseftal, later a member of the Knesset, and a minister in the 9th and 10th Israeli governments...
  
  
• Senetta Yoseftal, former political activist and member of Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
  

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• Haim Joseph Zadok, former minister of justice, trade and industry
• Rehavam Ze'evi, former general, tourism minister and founder of Moledet
  Moledet
  Moledet is a small right-wing political party in Israel. It advocates the notion of encouraging voluntary population transfer of the Arab population of the West Bank. Moledet was founded in 1988 by Rehavam Ze'evi, who headed it until his assassination by members of the PFLP in 2001, after which...
  
   (assassinated in October 2001)
• Mordechai Zipori, former general, minister, member of Irgun
  Irgun
  The Irgun , or Irgun Zevai Leumi to give it its full title , was a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization haHaganah...
  
  

See also

• List of Israelis
• List of Knesset members
• List of Likud Knesset Members
• Prime Minister of Israel
  Prime Minister of Israel
  The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...
  
  
• Politics of Israel
  Politics of Israel
  The Israeli system of government is based on parliamentary democracy. The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of government and leader of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in the Knesset. The Judiciary is independent of the executive...
  
  
• Basic Laws of Israel
  Basic Laws of Israel
  The Basic Laws of Israel are a key component of Israel's constitutional law. These laws deal with the formation and role of the principal state's institutions, and the relations between the state's authorities. Some of them also protect civil rights...
  
  
• List of political parties in Israel
• List of Knesset speakers