Ministry of Communications (Israel)

The Ministry of Communications (Hebrew: מִשְׂרָד הַתִּקְשֹׁרֶת, Misrad HaTikshoret) is the Israeli government ministry responsible for Communications in Israel. It is a relatively minor position in the cabinet. The ministry was established in 1952, and until 1970 was known as the Ministry of Postal Services (Hebrew: משרד הדואר‎, Misrad HaDo'ar).

List of ministers

The Communications Minister of Israel (Hebrew: שר התקשורת‎, Sar HaTikshoret) is the political head of the ministry. There is occasionally a Deputy Minister.

#	Minister	Party	Governments	Term start	Term end	Notes
Minister of Postal Services
1	Mordechai Nurock	Mizrachi	3	3 November 1952	24 December 1952
2	Yosef Burg	Hapoel HaMizrachi National Religious Party	4, 5, 6, 7, 8	24 December 1952	1 July 1958
3	Yisrael Barzilai	Mapam	8	24 November 1958	17 December 1959
4	Binyamin Mintz	Poalei Agudat Yisrael	9	17 July 1960	30 May 1961	Died in office
5	Eliyahu Sasson	Alignment	10, 11, 12, 13	2 November 1961	2 January 1967	Not an MK until after the 1965 elections
6	Yisrael Yeshayahu	Alignment	13, 14	2 January 1967	15 December 1969
7	Elimelekh Rimalt	Gahal	15	15 December 1969	6 August 1970
Minister of Communications
8	Shimon Peres	Alignment	15	1 September 1970	10 March 1974
9	Aharon Uzan	Not an MK	16	10 March 1974	3 June 1974
10	Yitzhak Rabin	Alignment	17	3 June 1974	20 March 1975
–	Aharon Uzan	Not an MK	17	20 March 1975	20 June 1977
11	Menachem Begin	Likud	18	20 June 1977	24 October 1977
12	Meir Amit	Dash	18	20 June 1977	15 September 1978
13	Yitzhak Moda'i	Likud	18	15 January 1979	22 December 1980
14	Yoram Aridor	Likud	18	5 January 1981	5 August 1981
15	Mordechai Tzipori	Likud	19, 20	5 August 1981	13 September 1984
16	Amnon Rubinstein	Shinui	21, 22	13 September 1984	26 May 1987
17	Gad Yaacobi	Alignment	22, 23	9 June 1987	15 March 1990
18	Rafael Pinhasi	Shas	24	11 June 1990	13 July 1992
19	Moshe Shahal	Labor Party	25	13 July 1992	7 June 1993
20	Shulamit Aloni	Meretz	25, 26	7 June 1993	18 June 1996
21	Limor Livnat	Likud	27	18 June 1996	6 July 1999
22	Binyamin Ben-Eliezer	One Israel	28	6 July 1999	7 March 2001
23	Reuven Rivlin	Likud	29	7 March 2001	28 February 2003
24	Ariel Sharon	Likud	30	28 February 2003	17 August 2003
25	Ehud Olmert	Likud	30	29 September 2003	10 January 2005
26	Dalia Itzik	Labor Party	30	10 January 2005	23 November 2005
27	Avraham Hirschson	Kadima	30	18 January 2006	4 May 2006
28	Ariel Atias	Shas	31	4 May 2006	31 April 2009
29	Moshe Kahlon	Likud	32	31 April 2009	18 March 2013
30	Gilad Erdan	Likud	33	18 March 2013	5 November 2014
31	Benjamin Netanyahu	Likud	33, 34	5 November 2014		Serving Prime Minister

Deputy ministers

#	Minister	Party	Governments	Term start	Term end
1	Jabr Muadi	Progress and Development, Alignment	15, 16, 17	27 October 1971	24 March 1975
2	Eliyahu Moyal	Alignment	17	24 March 1975	20 June 1977
3	Efraim Gur	Alignment	24	2 July 1990	20 November 1990
4	Yitzhak Vaknin	Shas	28	5 August 1999	11 July 2000

External links

• All Ministers in the Ministry of Communications Knesset website
• Israel Ministry of Communications site in English