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 

  NamePortraitPolitical partyTerm of officeElectedGovernment  Composition1David Ben-Gurion
(1886–1973)75pxMapai 14 May 1948  10 March 1949—Prov. 10 March 1949  1 November 19501949 () 1 November 1950  8 October 1951 8 October 1951  24 December 19521951 () 24 December 1952  26 January 19542Moshe Sharett75pxMapai 26 January 1954  29 June 1955 29 June 1955  3 November 1955David Ben-Gurion75pxMapai 3 November 1955  7 January 19581955 () 7 January 1958  17 December 1959 17 December 1959  2 November 19611959 () 2 November 1961  26 June 19631961 () 3Levi Eshkol75pxMapai 26 June 1963  22 December 1964 22 December 1964  12 January 1966Alignment 12 January 1966  26 February 19691965 () — Yigal Allon 75px Alignment 26 February 1969  17 March 19694Golda Meir75pxAlignment 17 March 1969  15 December 1969 15 December 1969  10 March 19741969 () 10 March 1974  3 June 19741973 ()5 Yitzhak Rabin 75px Alignment 3 June 1974  20 June 19776Menachem Begin75pxHerut 20 June 1977  5 August 19811977 () 5 August 1981  10 October 19831981 ()7Yitzhak Shamir 75px Herut 10 October 1983  13 September 19848Shimon Peres 75px Alignment 13 September 1984  20 October 19861984 ()Yitzhak Shamir75px Herut 20 October 1986  22 December 1988 Likud 22 December 1988  11 June 19901988 () 11 June 1990  13 July 1992 Yitzhak Rabin 75px Labor 13 July 1992  4 November 19951992 ()—Shimon Peres75pxLabor 4 November 1995  22 November 1995 22 November 1995  18 June 19969 Benjamin Netanyahu 90px Likud 18 June 1996  6 July 19991996 ()10 Ehud Barak 75pxOne Israel 6 July 1999  7 March 2001 1999()11Ariel Sharon75pxLikud 7 March 2001  28 February 2003 2001 28 February 2003  21 November 20052003 () Kadima 21 November 2005  (4 January 2006)14 April 2006—Ehud Olmert75pxKadima 4 January 2006  14 April 200612 14 April 2006  4 May 2006 4 May 2006  31 March 20092006 ()Benjamin Netanyahu
 75pxLikud  31 March 2009  18 March 2013 2009 () 18 March 2013  6 May 20152013 () 6 May 2015  9 April 20192015 ()—9 April 2019  17 May 2020April 2019 ()September 2019 () 17 May 2020  13 June 20212020 ()13 Naftali Bennett 75px Yamina 13 June 2021  30 June 20222021 ()14 Yair Lapid 75px Yesh Atid 1 July 2022  29 December 2022Benjamin Netanyahu
  75px Likud  29 December 2022  Present2022 ()

 Living former Prime Ministers 

As of , four former prime minister are alive:

ImageNameTerm of officeAge100pxEhud Barak1999 – 2001100pxEhud Olmert2006 – 2009100pxNaftali Bennett2021 – 2022100pxYair Lapid2022 – 2022
The most recent prime minister to die was Shimon Peres, who died on September 28, 2016.

References

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