The new ministers: Netanyahu’s sixth government – the full list
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The 37th government of the State of Israel, headed by Netanyahu for the sixth time, was sworn in yesterday (Thursday). Some of the ministerial positions were closed just minutes before the presentation of the government composition in the Knesset plenum, including the appointment of Eli Cohen as Foreign Minister and of Israel Katz as Energy Minister.
Besides Netanyahu, 29 ministers were sworn in at the plenum, and their number is expected to expand to 31 with the planned appointments of Gila Gamaliel (Likud) to the Minister of Intelligence, an appointment that was decided upon after the Knesset plenum had already voted on the composition of the government without Gamaliel, and of MK Meir Proosh to the Minister of Jerusalem and Traditions. After it was split from the current Jerusalem and Heritage Ministry.
- Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud): Prime Minister
- Yoav Galant (Likud): Minister of Defense
- Eli Cohen (Likud): Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Yariv Levin (Likud): Minister of Justice and Minister of Intelligence
- Yoav Kish (Likud): Minister of Education, Minister for Regional Cooperation
- Avi Dichter (Likud): Minister of Agriculture
- Miri Regev (Likud): Minister of Transportation
- Shlomo Karai (Likud): Minister of Communications
- Miki Zohar (Likud): Minister of Culture and Sports
- Idit Silman (Likud): Minister of Environmental Protection
- Nir Barkat (Likud): Minister of Economy and Industry
- Amichai Shikli (Likud): Minister for Social Equality and Minister of the Diaspora
- Galit Distel-Atbarian (Likud): Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office
- Haim Katz (Likud): Minister of Tourism
- Ron Dermer (Likud): Minister of Strategic Affairs
- Ofir Akunis (Likud): Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology
- Gila Gamliel (Likud): Minister of Intelligence*
- Israel Katz (Likud): Minister of Energy
- Ron Dermer (Likud): Minister of Strategic Affairs
- Bezalel Smotrich (religious Zionism): Minister of Finance, Minister in the Ministry of Defense
- Ofir Sofer (religious Zionism): minister of immigration and absorption
- Orit Struck (religious Zionism): Minister for National Missions
- Itamar Ben-Gvir (Otzma Yehudit): Minister of National Security
- Yitzhak Wasserlauf (Otzma Yehudit): Minister for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee and the Periphery
- Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit): Minister of Heritage
- Aryeh Deri (Shas): Minister of the Interior, Minister of Health
- Haim Biton (Shas): Minister in the Ministry of Education
- Yaakov Margi (Shas): Minister of Welfare
- Yoav Ben Tzur (Shas): Minister of the Ministry of Welfare
- Michael Malchiali (Shas): Minister of Religious Services
- Yitzhak Goldknopf (Torah Judaism): Minister of Housing
In addition to this, Meir Parosh of the Torah Judaism Movement is expected to be appointed Minister of Jerusalem and Heritage Affairs, after receiving a government decision on the split of the current Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage.
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