First government of Israel

First Government of Israel on 1 May 1949. Left-right: Golda Meir, Zalman Shazar, Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, Zvi Maimon (government stenographer), Dov Yosef, Eliezer Kaplan, Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Ze'ev Sherf (cabinet secretary), Pinchas Rosen, David Remez, Haim Moshe Shapira, Yitzhak Meir Levin, Yehuda Leib Maimon.

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The first government of Israel (Hebrew: מֶמְשֶׁלֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל הַרִאשׁוֹנָה, translit. Memshelet Yisra'el HaRishona) formed by David Ben-Gurion on 8 March 1949, a month and a half after the elections for the first Knesset. His Mapai party formed a coalition with the United Religious Front, the Progressive Party, the Sephardim and Oriental Communities and the Democratic List of Nazareth, and there were 12 ministers.

A notable piece of legislation enacted during the term of the first government was an educational law in 1949 which introduced compulsory schooling for all children between the ages of 5 to 14.^[1]

Ben-Gurion resigned on 15 October 1950 after the United Religious Front objected to his demands that the Supply and Rationing Ministry be closed and a businessman appointed as Minister for Trade and Industry, as well as issues over education in the new immigrant camps.

The Cabinet
Position	Person	Party
Prime Minister Minister of Defense	David Ben-Gurion	Mapai
Minister of Agriculture Minister of Rationing and Supply	Dov Yosef	Mapai
Minister of Education and Culture	Zalman Shazar	Mapai
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Moshe Sharett	Mapai
Minister of Finance Minister of Trade and Industry	Eliezer Kaplan	Mapai
Minister of Health Minister of Immigration Minister of Internal Affairs	Haim-Moshe Shapira	United Religious Front
Minister of Justice	Pinchas Rosen	Progressive Party
Minister of Labour and Social Security	Golda Meir	Mapai
Minister of Police	Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit	Sephardim and Oriental Communities
Minister of Religions and War Victims	Yehuda Leib Maimon	United Religious Front
Minister of Transportation	David Remez	Mapai
Minister of Welfare	Yitzhak-Meir Levin	United Religious Front

References

↑ The Challenge Of Israel by Misha Louvish. Publisher: Jerusalem Israel Univ Press; 1st Edition (1968) ASIN: B000OKO5U2.

External links

Knesset 1: Government 1 Knesset website

Governments of Israel

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