List of Prime ministers of Israel - wikipedia List of Prime ministers of Israel This is the current revision of this page, as edited by Gidonb ( talk contribs ) at 20 : 24, 10 August 2017 ( → ‎ Prime Ministers of Israel ( 1948 -- present ) : Correcting short names ). The present address ( URL ) is a permanent link to this version. Revision as of 20 : 24, 10 August 2017 by Gidonb ( talk contribs ) ( → ‎ Prime Ministers of Israel ( 1948 -- present ) : Correcting short names ) ( diff ) ← Previous revision Latest revision ( diff ) Newer revision → ( diff ) This article lists the Prime Ministers of Israel since the adoption of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. Contents 1 Prime Ministers of Israel ( 1948 -- present ) 1.1 Notes 2 Term of office in years 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Prime ministers of Israel ( 1948 -- present ) Colour key Mapai / Alignment / Labor Likud Kadima A total of twelve people have served as Prime Minister of Israel, five of whom have served on two non-consecutive occasions. Additionally, one person, Yigal Allon, has served solely as an Interim Prime Minister. The other two who have served as Interim Prime Minister have gone on to become the Prime Minister. No. Name ( Birth -- Death ) Portrait Political Party Term of Office Elected ( Knesset ) Government No. Composition 1 David Ben - Gurion דָּוִד בֶּן - גּוּרִיּוֹן ‎ ( 1886 -- 1973 ) Mapai 14 May 1948 10 March 1949 -- Prov. Mapai Mapam HHaM New Aliyah S&O Mizrachi Gen. Zionists Aguda 10 March 1949 1 November 1950 1949 ( 1st ) 1st Mapai URF Progressives S&O DLN 1 November 1950 8 October 1951 2nd 8 October 1951 24 December 1952 1951 ( 2nd ) 3rd Mapai Mizrachi HHaM - Aguda - PAY DLIA - P&W - A&D 24 December 1952 26 January 1954 4th Mapai Gen. Zionists Progressive Mizrachi HHaM DLIA - P&W - A&D 2 Moshe Sharett משֶׁה שָרֵת ‎ ( 1894 -- 1965 ) Mapai 26 January 1954 29 June 1955 5th 29 June 1955 3 November 1955 6th Mapai Mizrachi HHaM DLIA - P&W - A&D ( 1 ) David Ben - Gurion דָּוִד בֶּן - גּוּרִיּוֹן ‎ ( 1886 -- 1973 ) Mapai 3 November 1955 7 January 1958 1955 ( 3rd ) 7th Mapai NRP Mapam AHaA Progressives DLIA - P&W - A&D P&D - C&B 7 January 1958 17 December 1959 8th 17 December 1959 2 November 1961 1959 ( 4th ) 9th 2 November 1961 26 June 1963 1961 ( 5th ) 10th Mapai NRP AHaA PAY P&D - C&B 3 Levi Eshkol לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל ‎ ( 1895 -- 1969 ) Mapai 26 June 1963 22 December 1964 11th 22 December 1964 12 January 1966 12th Alignment Mapai / Labor 12 January 1966 26 February 1969 1965 ( 6th ) 13th Alignment NRP Mapam Indep. Liberals PAY P&D - C&B Gahal Rafi -- Yigal Allon ( acting ) יִגְאָל אַלּוֹן ‎ ( 1918 -- 1980 ) Alignment Labor 26 February 1969 17 March 1969 4 Golda Meir גּוֹלְדָּה מֵאִיר ‎ ( 1898 -- 1978 ) Alignment Labor 17 March 1969 15 December 1969 14th 15 December 1969 10 March 1974 1969 ( 7th ) 15th Alignment Gahal NRP Indep. Liberals P&D - C&B 10 March 1974 3 June 1974 1973 ( 8th ) 16th Alignment NRP Indep. Liberals 5 Yitzhak Rabin יִצְחָק רַבִּין ‎ ( 1922 -- 1995 ) Alignment Labor 3 June 1974 20 June 1977 17th Alignment Indep. Liberals Ratz NRP 6 Menachem Begin מְנַחֵם בֵּגִין ‎ ( 1913 -- 1992 ) Likud 20 June 1977 5 August 1981 1977 ( 9th ) 18th Likud NRP Aguda Dash 5 August 1981 10 October 1983 1981 ( 10th ) 19th Likud NRP Aguda Tami Telem / MRSZ Tehiya 7 Yitzhak Shamir יִצְחָק שָׁמִיר ‎ ( 1915 -- 2012 ) Likud 10 October 1983 13 September 1984 20th 8 Shimon Peres שִׁמְעוֹן פֶּרֶס ‎ ( 1923 -- 2016 ) Alignment Labor 13 September 1984 20 October 1986 1984 ( 11th ) 21st Alignment Likud NRP Aguda Shas Morasha Shinui Ometz ( 7 ) Yitzhak Shamir יִצְחָק שָׁמִיר ‎ ( 1915 -- 2012 ) Likud 20 October 1986 22 December 1988 22nd 22 December 1988 11 June 1990 1988 ( 12th ) 23rd Likud Alignment NRP Shas Aguda Degel HaTorah 11 June 1990 13 July 1992 24th Likud NRP Shas Aguda Degel HaTorah New Liberal Tehiya Tzomet Moledet UPI Geula ( 5 ) Yitzhak Rabin יִצְחָק רַבִּין ‎ ( 1922 -- 1995 ) Labor 13 July 1992 4 November 1995 1992 ( 13th ) 25th Labor Meretz Shas Yiud ( 8 ) Shimon Peres שִׁמְעוֹן פֶּרֶס ‎ ( 1923 -- 2016 ) Labor ( acting, 4 Nov. 1995 ) 22 November 1995 18 June 1996 26th 9 Benjamin Netanyahu בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ ‎ ( 1949 -- ) Likud 18 June 1996 6 July 1999 1996 14th 27th Likud - Gesher - Tzomet Shas NRP BaAliyah UTJ Third Way 10 Ehud Barak אֵהוּד בָּרָק ‎ ( 1942 -- ) One Israel Labor 6 July 1999 7 March 2001 1999 15th 28th One Israel Shas Meretz BaAliyah Centre NRP UTJ 11 Ariel Sharon אֲרִיאֵל שָׁרוֹן ‎ ( 1928 -- 2014 ) Likud 7 March 2001 28 February 2003 2001 29th Likud Labor - Meimad Shas Centre NRP UTJ BaAliyah NU - Beiteinu New Way Gesher 28 February 2003 21 November 2005 2003 ( 16th ) 30th Likud Shinui NU NRP Labor - Meimad Aguda Kadima 21 November 2005 ( 4 Jan. 2006 ) 14 April 2006 Kadima Likud Agudat 12 Ehud Olmert אֵהוּד אוֹלְמֶרט ‎ ( 1945 -- ) Kadima ( acting, 4 Jan. 2006 ) 14 April 2006 4 May 2006 4 May 2006 31 March 2009 2006 ( 17th ) 31st Kadima Labor Shas Gil Beiteinu ( 9 ) Benjamin Netanyahu בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ ‎ ( 1949 -- ) Likud 31 March 2009 18 March 2013 2009 ( 18th ) 32nd Likud Beiteinu Shas Labor / Indep. Jewish Home UTJ 18 March 2013 6 May 2015 2013 ( 19th ) 33rd Likud Yesh Atid The Jewish Home Yisrael Beiteinu Hatnuah 6 May 2015 Incumbent 2015 ( 20th ) 34th Likud Kulanu The Jewish Home Shas UTJ Yisrael Beiteinu Israel This article is part of a series on the politics and government of Israel Constitution and Presidency Basic Laws Jerusalem Law Law of Return President ( list ) Reuven Rivlin Executive Prime Minister ( list ) Benjamin Netanyahu Deputy leaders Cabinet Current ( 34th ) Security Cabinet Kitchen Cabinet State Comptroller Legislature Knesset Speaker : Yuli Edelstein Members ( Arab ) Leader of the Opposition Isaac Herzog Knesset Guard Elections Political parties Elections Law Central Elections Committee Referendums Judiciary Supreme Court President : Miriam Naor Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit Administrative divisions Districts Local government Municipalities Local councils Regional councils Foreign relations Arab -- Israeli conflict International law Arab League Israeli -- Palestinian conflict Israel, Palestine, United Nations Israel and the European Union Ambassadors Other countries Atlas Notes For the 1965 elections, Mapai allied with Ahdut HaAvoda to form the Labor Alignment, later renamed Alignment. This first Alignment ended when Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda and Rafi merged to form the Labor Party on 23 January 1968. On 28 January 1969, Labor formed a second Alignment in alliance with Mapam. Eshkol died while in office. Yigal Allon briefly served as Acting Prime Minister until he was replaced by Meir. Rabin resigned and called for early elections in December 1976. After he was re-elected as the Alignment 's leader, he resigned as candidate for the upcoming elections on 7 April 1977, but legally remained Prime Minister until Begin 's first government was formed. However, Shimon Peres unofficially served as Acting Prime Minister from 22 April 1977 until 21 June 1977. After the 1984 elections, Likud and the Alignment reached a coalition agreement by which the role of Prime Minister would be rotated mid-term between them. Shimon Peres of the Alignment served as Prime Minister for the first two years, and then the role was passed to Yitzhak Shamir. After the 1988 election Likud was able to govern without the Alignment, and Yitzhak Shamir became Prime Minister again. Rabin was assassinated while in office. Shimon Peres served as Acting Prime Minister until 22 November 1995. On 21 November 2005, Prime Minister Sharon, along with several other ministers and MKs, split from Likud over the issue of disengagement from the Gaza Strip and negotiations over the final status of the West Bank. Sharon formed a new party, Kadima, which would go on to compete in the following elections of March 2006. Sharon continued as Prime Minister. As the result of Ariel Sharon suffering a severe stroke on 4 January 2006, and being put under general anaesthetic, Ehud Olmert served as the Acting Prime Minister ( Hebrew : ממלא מקום ראש הממשלה בפועל ‎ ‎ ) from 4 January to 14 April, according to Basic Law : The Government : `` Should the Prime Minister be temporarily unable to discharge his duties, his place will be filled by the Acting Prime Minister. After the passage of 100 days upon which the Prime Minister does not resume his duties, the Prime Minister will be deemed permanently unable to exercise his office. '' Basic Law : the Government 2001, section 16b In Sharon 's case, this occurred on 14 April 2006, upon which Olmert became Interim Prime Minister for the remainder of the 30th government, finally becoming full Prime Minister on the formation of the 31st government. Olmert officially resigned on 21 September 2008. With this, his cabinet became an interim government, and he was the `` Interim '' Prime Minister until the establishment of a new governing coalition ( he was officially the Prime Minister, however, the government under him was an interim government, in this case ). The following parties were members of a government during only part of its term : 9th : Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood, two new parties, were members of the 9th government, which was otherwise identical in composition to the 7th and 8th governments. 13th : Gahal and Rafi joined 5 June 1967. Rafi merged into Labor ( a member of the Alignment ) 23 January 1968. 15th : Gahal stood down 6 August 1970. 17th : National Religious Party joined 30 October 1970 ; Ratz stood down 6 November 1970. 18th : Democratic Movement for Change joined October 1977. 19th : Tehiya joined 26 August 1981 ; the Movement for the Renewal of Social Zionism was formed 6 June 1983 following the break - up of Telem. 22nd : Morasha was not included in the 22nd government, which was otherwise identical in composition to the 21st government. 25th : Shas stood down 14 September 1993 ; Yiud joined 9 January 1995. 28th : United Torah Judaism stood down September 1999. 29th : Shas stood down 23 May 2002, returned 3 June ; Labor - Meimad stood down 2 November 2002. 30th : National Religious Party joined 3 March 2003, stood down 11 November 2004 ; National Union stood down 6 June 2004 ; Shinui stood down 4 December 2004 ; Labor - Meimad joined 10 January 2005 ; Agudat Yisrael joined 30 March 2005 ; Kadima broke away from Likud and Labor - Meimad stood down 23 November 2005, leaving a government consisting of Kadima, Likud and Agudat Yisrael ; Likud stood down 15 January 2006. 31st : Yisrael Beiteinu joined November 2006 ; stood down 16 January 2008. 32nd : United Torah Judaism joined 1 April 2009 ; Independence broke away from Labor 17 January 2011 ; Independence remained in the government and Labor stood down. Term of office in years David Ben - Gurion : 13 years and 127 days ( first term : 5 years and 257 days ; second term : 7 years and 235 days ) Benjamin Netanyahu : Incumbent - 7003418900000000000 ♠ 11 years, 171 days as of 31 August 2017 ( first term : 3 years and 18 days ; second and current term : 7003307500000000000 ♠ 8 years, 153 days ) Netanyahu holds the record for the longest single term ( his second term ) of any Israeli prime minister. If Netanyahu serves continuously as Prime Minister on July 16, 2019, he will tie Ben - Gurion to become the longest serving Prime Minister in Israel 's history. He will break that record for himself one day later on July 17, 2019. Yitzhak Shamir : 6 years and 242 days ( first term : 339 days ; second term : 5 years and 268 days ) Yitzhak Rabin : 6 years and 132 days ( first term : 3 years and 18 days ; second term : 3 years and 114 days ) Menachem Begin : 6 years and 113 days Levi Eshkol : 5 years and 247 days Ariel Sharon : 5 years and 39 days ( Including a 100 days period of `` temporary incapacitation '' wherein the Prime minister 's authorities were delegated to the Designated Acting Prime Minister ) Golda Meir : 5 years and 19 days Ehud Olmert : 2 years and 351 days ( In addition, served as Acting Prime Minister, wherein the Prime Minister 's authorities were delegated to him ) Shimon Peres : 2 years and 264 days ( first term : 2 years and 37 days ; second term : 227 days ) Moshe Sharett : 1 year and 281 days Ehud Barak : 1 year and 245 days Yigal Allon : 19 days ( interim ) This is a graphical lifespan timeline of Prime Ministers of Israel. The prime ministers are listed in order of office. See also Prime Minister of Israel List of Prime Ministers of Israel by longevity List of Presidents of Israel References Jump up ^ ( 1 ) Knesset, Governments of Israel Jump up ^ Basic Law : The Government ( 2001 ) Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 7 March 2001 Jump up ^ Mazal Mualem, Shahar Ilan, Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondents, and The Associated Press ( 21 September 2008 ). `` Olmert formally submits his resignation to Peres ''. Haaretz. Retrieved 21 September 2008. CS1 maint : Multiple names : authors list ( link ) Jump up ^ http://hamodia.com/2016/11/21/netanyahu-now-longest-continuous-serving-prime-minister/ External links The PM 's Who Shaped Israel -- slideshow by The First Post Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Israel&oldid=794913947 '' Categories : Lists of government ministers of Israel Lists of prime ministers Lists of members of the Knesset Prime Ministers of Israel Israel - related lists Hidden categories : CS1 maint : Multiple names : authors list Articles containing Hebrew - language text Use dmy dates from September 2011 Talk Article Talk View source More Contents About Wikipedia In other projects Wikimedia Commons Afrikaans العربية Deutsch Euskara فارسی Frysk Հայերեն Ido Bahasa Indonesia עברית Latviešu Magyar Nederlands Occitan Suomi Türkçe Українська اردو Edit links This page was last edited on 10 August 2017, at 20 : 24. 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