Ministry of Diaspora

The Ministry of Diaspora is a ministry in Israel that was formed in 2013. It was preceded by the Ministry of Information from 1967 to 1967 , which was dissolved in 1969 and re-existed from 1974 to 1975, and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Diaspora Affairs (from 1999 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2006), which from 2007 to 2009 as Ministry of Diaspora, Society and the Fight against Anti-Semitism and from 2009 to 2013 as Ministry of Diplomacy and Diaspora . It has had its current name since 2013. The current minister has been Omer Yankelevich since May 2020 .

List of ministers

minister	Political party	Taking office	End of office	government
Ministry of Information
Yisrael Galili	HaMa'arach ; Avoda	5th June 1967	17th March 1969	13. Government
From 1969 to 1974 there was no corresponding ministry.
Shimon Peres	HaMa'arach	March 10, 1974	3rd June 1974	16. Government
Aharon Jariv	HaMa'arach	3rd June 1974	4th February 1975	17. Government
Ministry abolished in 1975
Ministry of Social Affairs and Diaspora Affairs
Michael Melchior	Yisrael agate	August 5, 1999	March 7, 2001	28. Government
Natan Sharansky	Likud	March 3, 2003	May 4, 2006	30. Government
Ministry abolished in 2006
Ministry of Diaspora, Society and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism
Yitzchak Duke	Avoda	March 21, 2007	March 31, 2009	31. Government
Ministry of Diplomacy and Diaspora
July-Joel Edelstein	Likud	March 31, 2009	March 18, 2013	32nd government
Ministry of Diaspora
Naftali Bennett	HaBajit haJehudi , HaJamin HeChadash	March 18, 2013	4th June 2019	33. + 34. government
Tzipi Hotovely	Likud	January 21, 2020	17th May 2020	34. Government
Omer Yankelevich	Chosen LeJisra'el	17th May 2020		35. Government

Deputy Minister

Only once in its history, from June 20 to November 23, 2005, has the ministry had a deputy minister: Michael Melchior ( Meimad party).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindex_current_eng.asp?view=4