Cabinet of Levi Eschkol II

The cabinet of Levi Eshkol II ( Hebrew מֶמְשֶׁלֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל הַשְׁתֵּיִם עֶשְׂרֵה Memshelet Yisra'el HaShteim esre ) is the second Israeli coalition government with Levi Eschkol as prime minister and the twelfth government since the establishment of the State of Israel. The new government is the third coalition government in the fifth term of the Knesset . It was formed on December 22, 1964 and lasted until the end of the legislature.

As was the case with the First Coalition Government of Levi Eschkol, Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael , National Religious Party , Achdut haAwoda , Poalei Agudat Jisra'el and the two parties representing the Arabs of Israelis , Shituf weAchwa and Kidma wePituach . The composition of the government has not changed much since the last government. Only the position of Minister of Tourism was created, the first minister of which was Akiwa Gowrin , who was a minister without portfolio in the previous government .

Yosef Almogi and Shimon Peres resigned from their ministerial posts on May 25, 1965 due to their opposition. Both switched to the Rafi party, newly founded by David Ben-Gurion , in July .

After the parliamentary elections on November 1, 1965 for the Sixth Knesset , the government remained in office until the new government took over on January 12, 1966.

cabinet

The cabinet of Levi Eschkol II
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	Chaim Gwati		Not a member of the Knesset
Minister for State Development	Yosef Almogi (until May 25, 1965)		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
	Chaim Josef Zadok (from May 31, 1965)		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Minister of Education	Zalman Aran		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Finance minister	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 for Construction and Housing	Yosef Almogi (until May 23, 1965)		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
	Levi Eschkol (from May 31, 1965)		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
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
Tourism Minister	Akiwa Gowrin		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Minister for Trade and Industry	Pinchas Sapir (until May 25, 1965)		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
	Chaim Josef Zadok (from May 25, 1965)		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Transport Minister	Jisra'el Bar Jehuda (until May 4, 1965)		Achdut haAwoda
	Mosque Carmel (from May 30, 1965)		Achdut haAwoda
Minister for Welfare	Josef Castle		National Religious Party
Deputy Minister of Defense	Shimon Peres (until May 25, 1965)		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Deputy Minister of Education	Kalman Kahana (until November 22, 1965)		Poalei Agudat Jisra'el
	Aharon Jadlin		Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael
Deputy Minister of Health	Yitzchak Rafa'el (until March 22, 1965)		National Religious Party
	Schlomo Jisra'el Ben Me'ir (from March 22, 1965)		National Religious Party
Deputy Minister of the Interior	Shlomo Jisra'el Ben Me'ir

Web links

• Government 12. In: Governments of Israel. Knesset , accessed February 9, 2015 . 
• The Main Events and Issues During the Fifth Knesset. In: History of the Knesset. Knesset , accessed February 9, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Main Events and Issues During the Fifth Knesset. In: History of the Knesset. Knesset , accessed February 9, 2015 . 
2. ^ Government 12. In: Governments of Israel. Knesset , accessed February 9, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Timeline 1965. (No longer available online.) Jewish Agency for Israel , archived from the original on December 3, 2008 ; accessed on February 9, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Rafi. In: Parliamentary Groups. Knesset , accessed February 9, 2015 .