The provisional government of Israel was a temporary cabinet group that governed the Jewish community in British Mandate Palestine and later the state of Israel. The provisional government of Israel was formed on April 12 1948 and was in power until the formation of the first official government after Knesset elections in March 1949. David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Eliezer Kaplan, Minister of Finance Behor Shalom Shitrit, Minister of Police and Minorities Yitzhak Greenbaum, Minister of the Interior Ze'ev Sharef, Cabinet Secretary Felix Rosenblueth, Minister of Justice Moshe Shapira, Minister of Immigration and Health Yitzhak Meir Levin, Minister of Social Welfare Yehuda Maimon (Fishman), Minister of Religious Affairs and War Casualties Peretz Bernstein, Minister of Trade, Industry and Supplies. Mordechai Bentov, Minister of Labor and Construction Aharon Zisling, Minister of Agriculture David Remez, Minister of Transport Moshe Shertok (Sharett), Foreign Minister Sources: Israeli Foreign Ministry |
