Prime Minister of Israel

The **Prime Minister of Israel** is the head of government and chief executive of Israel. The prime minister has the most powerful political job in the country and is usually the leader of the majority party or coalition in the Parliament of Israel. The current Prime Minister is Benjamin Netanyahu who took office again in December 2022.

## List of prime ministers

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|rowspan=5 style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"|**1**|rowspan=5|**David Ben-Gurion** <small>(1886–1973)</small>|rowspan=5||rowspan=5|Mapai|14 May 1948|10 March 1949|colspan=2|—||Prov.|||
|10 March 1949|1 November 1950|rowspan=2 colspan=2|1949 ()||First government of Israel|rowspan=2||||||||||
|1 November 1950|8 October 1951||Second government of Israel|||||||||||||
|8 October 1951|24 December 1952|rowspan=4 colspan=2|1951 ()||Third government of Israel|||||||||||
|24 December 1952|26 January 1954||Fourth government of Israel|rowspan=2||||||||||||
|rowspan=2 style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"|**2**|rowspan=2|**Moshe Sharett**|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Mapai|26 January 1954|29 June 1955||Fifth government of Israel|||||
|29 June 1955|3 November 1955||Sixth government of Israel|||||||||||||
|rowspan=4 style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"||rowspan=4|**David Ben-Gurion**|rowspan=4||rowspan=4|Mapai|3 November 1955|7 January 1958|rowspan=2 colspan=2|1955 ()||Seventh government of Israel|rowspan=3||
|7 January 1958|17 December 1959||Eighth government of Israel|||||||||||||
|17 December 1959|2 November 1961|colspan=2|1959 ()||Ninth government of Israel|||||||||||
|2 November 1961|26 June 1963|rowspan=3 colspan=2|1961 ()||Tenth government of Israel|rowspan=3||||||||||
|rowspan=3 style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"|**3**|rowspan=3|**Levi Eshkol**|rowspan=3||rowspan=2|Mapai|26 June 1963|22 December 1964||Eleventh government of Israel|||||
|22 December 1964|12 January 1966||Twelfth government of Israel|||||||||||||
|nowrap|Alignment|12 January 1966|26 February 1969|rowspan=3 colspan=2|1965 ()|rowspan=2|Thirteenth government of Israel|rowspan=3||||||||
|style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"|**—**|Yigal Allon||Alignment|_26 February 1969_|_17 March 1969_||||||||||
|rowspan=3 style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"|**4**|rowspan=3|**Golda Meir**|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Alignment|17 March 1969|15 December 1969||Fourteenth government of Israel|||||
|15 December 1969|10 March 1974|colspan=2|1969 ()||Fifteenth government of Israel|||||||||||
|10 March 1974|3 June 1974|rowspan=2 colspan=2|1973 ()||Sixteenth government of Israel|||||||||||
|style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"|**5**|**Yitzhak Rabin**||Alignment|3 June 1974|20 June 1977||Seventeenth government of Israel||||||||
|rowspan=2 style="background:#1F5AA5; color:white;"|**6**|rowspan=2|**Menachem Begin**|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Herut|20 June 1977|5 August 1981|colspan=2|1977 ()||Eighteenth government of Israel|||
|5 August 1981|10 October 1983|rowspan=2 colspan=2|1981 ()||Nineteenth government of Israel|rowspan=2||||||||||
|style="background:#1F5AA5; color:white;"|**7**|**Yitzhak Shamir**||Herut|10 October 1983|13 September 1984||Twentieth government of Israel||||||||
|style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"|**8**|**Shimon Peres**||Alignment|13 September 1984|20 October 1986|rowspan=2 colspan=2|1984 ()||Twenty-first government of Israel|rowspan=2|||||
|rowspan=3 style="background:#1F5AA5; color:white;"||rowspan=3|**Yitzhak Shamir**|rowspan=3||Herut|20 October 1986|22 December 1988||Twenty-second government of Israel||||||
|rowspan=2|Likud|22 December 1988|11 June 1990|colspan=2 rowspan=2|1988 ()||Twenty-third government of Israel|||||||||
|11 June 1990|13 July 1992||Twenty-fourth government of Israel|||||||||||||
|style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"||**Yitzhak Rabin**||Labor|13 July 1992|4 November 1995|rowspan=3 colspan=2|1992 ()||Twenty-fifth government of Israel|rowspan=3|||||
|style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"|**—**|rowspan=2|**Shimon Peres**|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Labor|_4 November 1995_|_22 November 1995_|rowspan=2|Twenty-sixth government of Israel|||||
|style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"||22 November 1995|18 June 1996|||||||||||||
|style="background:#1F5AA5; color:white;"|**9**|**Benjamin Netanyahu**||Likud|18 June 1996|6 July 1999|colspan=2|1996 ()||Twenty-seventh government of Israel||||||
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white;"|**10**|**Ehud Barak**||nowrap|One Israel|6 July 1999|7 March 2001|1999|rowspan=2|()||Twenty-eighth government of Israel||||
|rowspan="2" style="background-color:#1F5AA5; color:white; border-bottom:solid 0 gray;"|**11**|rowspan=3|**Ariel Sharon**|rowspan=3||rowspan=2|Likud|7 March 2001|28 February 2003|2001||Twenty-ninth government of Israel||||
|28 February 2003|21 November 2005|rowspan=4 colspan=2|2003 ()|rowspan=4|Thirtieth government of Israel|||||||||||
|style="background-color:#32127A; color:white; border-top:solid 0 gray;"||Kadima|21 November 2005|(_4 January 2006_) 14 April 2006|rowspan=3|||||||||||
|style="background:#32127A; color:white;"|**—**|rowspan=3|**Ehud Olmert**|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Kadima|_4 January 2006_|_14 April 2006_|||||||
|rowspan=2 style="background:#32127A; color:white;"|**12**|14 April 2006|4 May 2006|||||||||||||
|4 May 2006|31 March 2009|colspan=2|2006 ()||Thirty-first government of Israel|||||||||||
|rowspan=3 style="background:#1F5AA5; color:white;"||rowspan=6|**Benjamin Netanyahu**|rowspan=6||rowspan=6|Likud|31 March 2009|18 March 2013|colspan=2|2009 ()||Thirty-second government of Israel|||
|18 March 2013|6 May 2015|colspan=2|2013 ()||Thirty-third government of Israel|||||||||||
|6 May 2015|9 April 2019|colspan=2|2015 ()|rowspan=3|Thirty-fourth government of Israel|rowspan=3||||||||||
|style="background:#1F5AA5; color:white;" rowspan=2|**—**|_9 April 2019_|_17 May 2020_|colspan=2|April 2019 ()|||||||||||
|colspan=2|September 2019 ()|||||||||||||||
|style="background:#1F5AA5; color:white;"||17 May 2020|13 June 2021|colspan=2|2020 ()|rowspan=1|Thirty-fifth government of Israel|rowspan=1||||||||
|style="background:#3799B2; color:white;"|**13**|**Naftali Bennett**||Yamina|13 June 2021|30 June 2022|rowspan=2 colspan=2|2021 ()|rowspan=2|Thirty-sixth government of Israel|rowspan=2|||||
|style="background:#0000AA; color:white;"|**14**|**Yair Lapid**||Yesh Atid|1 July 2022|29 December 2022||||||||||
|style="background:#1F5AA5; color:white;"||**Benjamin Netanyahu**||Likud|29 December 2022|Present|colspan=2|2022 ()||Thirty-seventh government of Israel||||||

## Living former Prime Ministers

As of , four former prime minister are alive:

|Image|Name|Term of office|Age||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Ehud Barak||1999 – 2001||
||Ehud Olmert||2006 – 2009||
||Naftali Bennett||2021 – 2022||
||Yair Lapid||2022 – 2022||
The most recent prime minister to die was Shimon Peres, who died on September 28, 2016.

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Prime Minister
- **body**: Israel
- **flag**: Flag of the Prime Minister of Israel.svg
- **flagcaption**: Flag of the Prime Minister of Israel
- **department**: Office of the Prime Minister (Israel), Prime Minister's Office
- **image**: Benjamin Netanyahu, February 2023.jpg
- **incumbent**: Benjamin Netanyahu
- **incumbentsince**: 29 December 2022
- **style**: His Excellency
- **residence**: Beit Aghion
- **nominator**: Knesset
- **appointer**: President of Israel
- **termlength**: 4 years (maximum)
- **inaugural**: David Ben-Gurion
- **formation**: 14 May 1948
- **deputy**: Deputy leaders of Israel#Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister
- **salary**: 168,210 USD annually