Ministry of Public Security (Israel)

The Ministry of Public Security (Hebrew: המשרד לביטחון הפנים‎), also Ministry of Internal Security, is a government agency of Israel. It is the statewide law enforcement agency and oversees the Israel Police, the Israel Prison Service and the Israel National Fire and Rescue Services. The current Minister of Public Security is Gilad Erdan.

List of ministers

The Minister of Public Security (Hebrew: שר לביטחון פנים‎, Sar LeVitahon Pnim) is the political head of the ministry. Until 1995 the position was known as Minister of Police (Hebrew: שר המשטרה‎, Sar HaMishtara). The first Minister of Police, Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, was a former policeman, and served in the position from Israeli independence in May 1948 until a month before his death in January 1967, serving in fourteen governments and making him the country's longest continually serving minister. The post was abolished after Menachem Begin became Prime Minister in 1977, but was reinstated in 1984 when Shimon Peres became PM. There is occasionally a Deputy Minister of Public Security.

#	Minister	Party	Government	Term start	Term end	Notes
Minister of Police
1	Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit	Sephardim & Oriental Communities Mapai Alignment	P, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13	May 14, 1948	January 2, 1967
2	Eliyahu Sasson	Alignment Labor Party Alignment	13, 14	January 2, 1967	December 15, 1969
3	Shlomo Hillel	Alignment	15, 16, 17	December 15, 1969	June 20, 1977
4	Haim Bar-Lev	Alignment	21, 22, 23	September 13, 1984	March 15, 1990
5	Roni Milo	Likud	24	June 11, 1990	July 13, 1992
6	Moshe Shahal	Labor Party	25	July 13, 1992	22 November 1995
Minister of Internal Security
–	Moshe Shahal	Labor Party	26	22 November 1995	June 18, 1996
7	Avigdor Kahalani	Third Way	27	June 18, 1996	July 6, 1999
8	Shlomo Ben-Ami	One Israel	28	July 6, 1999	March 7, 2001
9	Uzi Landau	Likud	29	March 7, 2001	February 28, 2003
10	Tzachi Hanegbi	Likud	30	February 28, 2003	September 6, 2004
11	Gideon Ezra	Likud Kadima	30	September 6, 2004	May 4, 2006	Initially appointed Acting Minister, with position made permanent on 29 November 2004
12	Avi Dichter	Kadima	31	May 4, 2006	April 1, 2009
13	Yitzhak Aharonovich	Yisrael Beiteinu	32, 33	1 April 2009	14 May 2015
14	Yariv Levin	Likud	34	14 May 2015	25 May 2015
14	Gilad Erdan	Likud	34	25 May 2015

Deputy ministers

#	Minister	Party	Government	Term start	Term end
1	Gideon Ezra	Likud	29	March 7, 2001	February 28, 2003
2	Yaakov Edri	Likud Kadima	30	March 10, 2003	January 18, 2006

Public Security Agencies

• Israel Police
  • Border Guard
  • Civil Guard
• Israel Fire and Rescue Services
• Israel Prison Service
• Firearm Licensing Department
• Israel Anti-Drug & Alcohol Authority
• Israel Witness Protection Authority
• Police & Prison Service Personnel Ombudsman
• City Without Violence
• Metzila - Community Prevention

External links

• Official website (English)
• Official website (Hebrew)
• Official website (Arabic)
• Official website (Russian)
• All Ministers in the Ministry of Police (Internal Security) Knesset website