Twenty-Ninth Government
(March 7, 2001 - February 28, 2003)
Cabinet Ministers
Prime Minister and Minister
of Immigrant Absorption: Ariel
Sharon (Likud)
With the resignation of the Labor ministers which entered to effect on November 2, 2002 he also holds
the Agriculture, Industry and Trade, Transportation, and Science, Culture
and Sport Portfolios
Foreign Minister: Benjamin
Netanyahu (Likud)
Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister: Silvan
Shalom (Likud)
Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister: Eli
Yishai (Shas)
Housing and Construction Minister and Deputy Prime Minister: Natan Sharansky (Yisrael
b'Aliyah)
Defense Minister: Shaul
Mofaz (Likud)
Justice Minister: Meir
Sheetrit (Likud)
Education Minister: Limor
Livnat (Likud)
Public Security Minister: Uzi
Landau (Likud)
Communication Minister: Reuven
Rivlin (Likud)
Environment Minister: Tzachi
Hanegbi (Likud)
Minister without Portfolio, responsible for coordination between
the government and the Knesset: Danny
Naveh (Likud)
Minister For Regional Cooperation: Tzipi
Livni (Likud)
Labor and Social Affairs Minister: Shlomo
Benizri (Shas)
Health Minister: Nissim
Dahan (Shas)
Jerusalem Affairs Minister: Eli
Suissa (Shas)
National Infrastructure Minister: Efraim
Eitam (NRP)
Tourism Minister: Yitzhak
Levy (NRP)
Religious Affairs Minister: Asher
Ohana (Shas)
Minister without Portofolio, Dan
Meridor (Center)
Minister for Regional Cooperation, Roni
Milo (Center)
Deputy Ministers:
David
Azoulay, Deputy Minister of the Interior (Shas)
Naomi Blumenthal, Deputy
Minister of National Infrastructures (Likud)
Yitzhak Cohen,
Deputy Minister of Finance (Shas)
Yuli Edelstein,
Deputy Immigration Absorption Minister (Yisrael
b'Aliyah),
Gideon Ezra,
Deputy Minister of Public Security (Likud)
Meshulam Nahari, Deputy
Education Minister (Shas)
Meir Porush,
Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction (United
Torah Judaism)
Avraham Ravitz,
Deputy Minister of Education (United
Torah Judaism)
Yitzhak Vaknin, Deputy
Minister of Labor and Social Welfare (Shas)
Senior Government Officials
Avraham Burg, MK -
Speaker of the Knesset
Aharon Barak - President of the
Supreme Court
Eliezer Goldberg - State
Comptroller and Public Complaints Commissioner
Lieutenant-General Moshe
Ya'alon - IDF Chief of General Staff
Shlomo Aharonishki -
Commissioner of Police
Elyakim Rubinstein - Attorney
General
David Klein - Governor of the Bank of
Israel
Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi Doron - Sephardi
Chief Rabbi
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau - Ashkenazi Chief
Rabbi
Sources: Israeli
Foreign Ministry |
