Cabinet Levi Eschkol III

The cabinet of Levi Eshkol III ( Hebrew מֶמְשֶׁלֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל הַשְׁלוֹשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה, Memshelet Yisra'el HaShlosh esre ) was the third Israeli coalition government with Levi Eschkol as prime minister and the thirteenth government since the establishment of the State of Israel. After the elections on November 1, 1965 for the sixth legislative period of the Knesset , President Salman Shazar charged Levi Eschkol with forming a government. The government, with 18 ministerial posts, was formed on January 12, 1966 by a coalition government made up of HaMa'arach , the National Religious Party , Mapam , Libralim Atzma'im , Poalei Agudat Jisra'el and the two parties representing the Arab-born Israelis , Shituf weAchwa and Kidma wePituach .

After the outbreak of the Six Day War on June 5, 1967, a government of national unity (National Unity Government) was formed together with the previous opposition parties Gachal and Rafi . This was expanded to include three more ministers and two new ministries ( Ministry for the Reception of Immigrants and Ministry for Information ).

After Levi Eschkol's death on February 26, 1969, a new government was formed on March 17, 1969 with Golda Meir as Prime Minister. In the meantime, Jigal Allon took over the government.

cabinet

The cabinet of Levi Eschkol III
position	person	image	Political party
Prime Minister (until February 26, 1969) Minister of Defense (until June 5, 1967)	Levi Eschkol		HaMa'arach ( Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael )
Minister for the Integration of Immigrants (from July 1, 1968) Deputy Prime Minister (from July 1, 1968 to February 26, 1969) Interim Prime Minister from February 26, 1969 to March 16, 1969	Jigal Allon		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
Minister of Agriculture	Chaim Gwati		HaMa'arach
Minister for State Development Minister for Tourism	Moshe Kol		not a member of the Knesset
Minister of Education	Zalman Aran		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
Finance minister	Pinchas Sapir (until August 5, 1968)		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
	Zeev Sherf (from August 5, 1968)		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
Foreign minister	Abba Eban		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
Minister of Health	Yisrael Barsilai		Not a member of the Knesset
Minister for Construction and Housing	Mordechaj Bentov		Not a member of the Knesset
Information minister	Yisrael Galili (from June 5, 1967)		HaMa'arach
Interior minister	Chaim Mosque Shapira		National Religious Party
Minister of Justice	Ja'akov Shimshon Shapira		Not a member of the Knesset
Minister of Labor	Jigal Allon (until July 1, 1968)		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
	Yosef Almogi (from July 8, 1968)		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
Minister for Public Security	Bechor-Shalom Shitrit (until January 2, 1967)		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
	Eliahu Sasson (from January 2, 1967)		HaMa'arach
Post Minister	Eliahu Sasson (until January 2, 1967)		HaMa'arach
	Yisrael Yeshayahu-Sharabi (from January 2, 1967)		HaMa'arach
Minister for Religion	Serach Truly		National Religious Party
Minister for Trade and Industry	Chaim Josef Zadok (until November 22, 1966)		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
	Zeev Sherf (from November 22, 1966)		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
Transport Minister	Moshe Carmel		HaMa'arach (Achdut haAwoda)
Minister for Welfare	Josef Castle		National Religious Party
Minister with no portfolio	Yisrael Galili (until June 5, 1967)		HaMa'arach
	Menachem Begin (from June 5, 1967)		Gachal
	Josef Sapir (from June 5, 1967)		Gachal
	Pinchas Sapir (from August 5, 1968)		HaMa'arach
Deputy Minister of Agriculture	Aharon Uzan		HaMa'arach
Deputy Minister of Defense (until June 5, 1967) Deputy Minister of Finance (from July 27, 1967)	Between Dinstein		HaMa'arach
Deputy Minister for State Development	Yehuda Sha'ari		Libralim Atzma'im
Deputy Minister of Education	Kalman Kahana (until November 22, 1965)		Poalei Agudat Jisra'el
	Aharon Jadlin		HaMa'arach (Mifleget Poalei Erez Yisrael)
Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry (October 17, 1966 to November 22, 1966) Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry (November 28, 1966 to June 26, 1967) Deputy Minister for the Integration of Immigrants (from August 12, 1968)	Arje Eliav		HaMa'arach
Deputy Minister of the Interior	Shlomo Jisra'el Ben Me'ir		National Religious Party
Deputy Minister for Religion	Benjamin Schachor		National Religious Party

Web links

• Government 13. In: Governments of Israel. Knesset , accessed December 13, 2015 . 
• The Main Events and Issues During the Sixth Knesset. In: History of the Knesset. Knesset , accessed December 13, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Main Events and Issues During the Sixth Knesset. In: History of the Knesset. Knesset , accessed December 13, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Factional and Government Make-Up of the Sixth Knesset. In: Factional and Government Make-Up. Knesset , accessed December 13, 2015 . 
3. ^ Portrait of Yigal Allon - Roles in the Government. In: Knesset Members. Knesset , accessed December 13, 2015 .