Nothing is official until the Tuesday evening ceremony in the President’s Residence but it appears the new government will look like this as per Tuesday morning media reports. The estimated cost is NIS 210 million annually.
THE NEW GOVERNMENT
LIKUD – 28 SEATS – 14 ministers – 3 deputy ministers
Prime Minister – Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud)
Improved Service to the Public – Michael Eitan (Likud)
Finance – Dr. Yuval Shteinitz (Likud)
Environmental Affairs – Gilad Erdan (Likud)
Education – Gideon Saar (Likud)
Culture – Limor Livnat (Likud)
No portfolio – Yossi Peled (Likud)
No portfolio – Binyamin Begin (Likud)
Communications – Moshe Kahlon (Likud)
Transportation – Yisrael Katz (Likud)
Information – Yuli Edelstein (Likud)
Intelligence Services – Dan Meridor (Likud)
Minister of Strategic Threats – Assistant PM – Moshe Ya’alon (Likud)
Unknown – Silvan Shalom (Likud)
DM for Women and Youth Affairs – Gila Gamliel (Likud)
DM for Senior Citizen Affairs – Dr. Leah Nass (Likud)
DM for Negev & Galil Development – Ayoub Kara (Likud)
YISRAEL BEITENU – 15 SEATS – 5 ministers – 1 deputy minister
Foreign Minister/ Vice Premier – Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beitenu)
Infrastructure – Dr. Uzi Landau (Yisrael Beitenu)
Absorption – Sofia Landver (Yisrael Beitenu)
Tourism – Stas Misezhnikov (Yisrael Beitenu)
Public Security – Yitzchak Aharonovitch (Yisrael Beitenu)
DM of Foreign Affairs –Danny Ayalon (Yisrael Beitenu)
LABOR – 13 SEATS – 5 ministers – 2 deputy ministers
Defense Minister/ Vice Premier – Ehud Barak (Labor)
Minority Affairs – Dr. Avishai Braverman (Labor)
Agriculture – Shalom Simchon (Labor)
Welfare – Yitzchak Herzog (Labor)
Industry & Trade – Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor)
DM of Defense – Matan Vilnai (Defense)
DM of Industry & Trade – Orit Noked (Labor)
SHAS – 11 SEATS – 4 ministers
Interior/Vice Premier – Eli Yishai (Shas)
Housing – Ariel Atias (Shas)
Religious Services – Yaakov Margi (Shas)
PM Office – Meshulam Nahari (Shas)
BAYIT HAYEHUDI – 3 SEATS – 1 minister
Science – Dr. Daniel Hershkowitz (Bayit HaYehudi)
UNAFFILIATED
Justice – Prof. Yaakov Ne’eman
OPPOSITION PARTIES
Kadima – 28 seats
Yahadut HaTorah – 5 seats (expected to receive a deputy ministerial post)
Hadash – 4 seats
Ichud HaLeumi – 4 seats
Ra’am – Ta’al – 4 seats
National Democratic Assembly – 3 seats
Meretz – 3 seats
The swearing-in ceremony is expected to get underway at about 11:00pm.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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One Response
The American president gets to fill the “plum book” with thousands of patronage employees. By this standard, making a third of the kenesset into into ministers (giving them more money), is modest.
Also, Jewish tradition is to always have a “wall to wall” coalition, excluding only those we consider to be disreputable apikoresim. That is how our institutions have always been run. Everyone is expected to “get on board”. Within the Torah world, there is no such thing as a “loyal opposition”. So perhaps the Israeli desire for a “national unity” government is merely a cultural survival from golus (and perhaps not such a bad thing).