Cabinet Levi Eschkol I

The cabinet of Levi Eschkol I ( Hebrew מֶמְשֶׁלֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל הַאַחַת עֶשְׂרֵה Memshelet Yisra'el HaAkhat esre ) is the first Israeli coalition government with Levi Eschkol as prime minister and the eleventh government since the establishment of the State of Israel.

After the elections to the Fifth Knesset on August 15, 1961 , President Ben Zwi commissioned Levi Eschkol on September 14, 1961 to form a new government. Levi Eschkol accepted the contract on condition that David Ben-Gurion becomes prime minister. After the failure of the coalition government under David Ben-Gurion on June 16, 1963, Levi Eschkol took over the formation of a new government. The new government began its work on June 26, 1963.

As in the eighth coalition government of David Ben-Gurion, the governing parties were Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael , National Religious Party , Achdut haAwoda , Poalei Agudat Jisra'el and the two parties representing the Arab-born Israelis Shituf weAchwa and Kidma wePituach .

The composition of the cabinet has changed compared to the previous government as follows:

Levi Eschkol became Prime Minister and Minister of Defense;
Pinchas Sapir replaced Levi Eschkol as finance minister;
Abba Eban became Deputy Prime Minister (the second in Israeli history);
Zalman Aran became Minister of Education.

Thus, the Levi Eschkol I cabinet presented itself as a "government of continuity".

The government was dissolved on December 14, 1964. This was preceded by a dispute between Levi Eschkol and David Ben-Gurion in the course of the Lawon affair , in which David Ben-Gurion demanded that the Supreme Court investigate the case; Levi Eschkol then resigned from the office of Prime Minister. A week later a new coalition government was formed.

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The cabinet of Levi Eschkol I
position	person	image	Political party
Prime Minister Defense Minister	Levi Eschkol		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Deputy Prime Minister	Abba Eban		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Minister of Agriculture	Moshe Dayan (until November 4, 1964)		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Minister of Agriculture	Chaim Gwati (from November 9, 1964)		Not a member of the Knesset
Minister for State Development Minister for Construction and Housing	Yosef Almogi		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Minister of Education	Zalman Aran		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Minister of Finance Minister for Trade and Industry	Pinchas Sapir		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Foreign minister	Golda Meir		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Minister of Health Interior Minister	Chaim Mosque Shapira		National Religious Party
Minister of Justice	Dov Yosef		Not a member of the Knesset
Minister of Labor	Jigal Allon		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Minister for Public Security	Bechor-Shalom Shitrite		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Post Minister	Eliahu Sasson		Not a member of the Knesset
Minister for Religion	Serach Truly		National Religious Party
Transport Minister	Jisra'el Bar Yehuda		Achdut haAwoda
Minister for Welfare	Josef Castle		National Religious Party
Minister with no portfolio	Akiwa Gowrin (from December 1, 1963)		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Deputy Minister of Defense	Shimon Peres		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Deputy Minister of Education	Kalman Kahana		Poalei Agudat Jisra'el
Deputy Minister of Education	Aharon Jadlin (from June 1, 1964)		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Deputy Minister of Health	Yitzchak Rafa'el		National Religious Party
Deputy Minister of the Interior	Shlomo Jisra'el Ben Me'ir		National Religious Party

Web links

Government 11. In: Governments of Israel. Knesset , accessed January 29, 2015 .
The Main Events and Issues During the Fifth Knesset. In: History of the Knesset. Knesset , accessed January 29, 2015 .

Individual evidence

^ The Main Events and Issues During the Fifth Knesset. In: History of the Knesset. Knesset , accessed January 29, 2015 .
↑ Timeline 1961. (No longer available online.) Jewish Agency for Israel , archived from the original on December 3, 2008 ; accessed on January 29, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b Timeline 1963. (No longer available online.) Jewish Agency for Israel , archived from the original on December 3, 2008 ; accessed on January 29, 2015 .
↑ Timeline 1964. (No longer available online.) Jewish Agency for Israel , archived from the original on December 3, 2008 ; accessed on January 29, 2015 .

[knes5-1] The Main Events and Issues During the Fifth Knesset. In: History of the Knesset. Knesset , accessed January 29, 2015 .

[ja1961-2] Timeline 1961. (No longer available online.) Jewish Agency for Israel , archived from the original on December 3, 2008 ; accessed on January 29, 2015 .

[ja1963-3] Timeline 1963. (No longer available online.) Jewish Agency for Israel , archived from the original on December 3, 2008 ; accessed on January 29, 2015 .

[ja1964-4] Timeline 1964. (No longer available online.) Jewish Agency for Israel , archived from the original on December 3, 2008 ; accessed on January 29, 2015 .