Deputy Prime Minister (Israel)

The post of Deputy Prime Minister in Israel can be divided into three categories: Acting Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Vice Prime Minister. Israeli law distinguishes between acting prime minister (מלא מקום ראש הממשלה) and the acting Israeli interim prime minister . The office of Israeli acting prime minister may only be temporarily exercised for 100 consecutive days as long as the prime minister is incapacitated. The Israeli interim prime minister, on the other hand, comes into play if the incumbent prime minister is declared permanently incapacitated.

Acting Prime Minister

Ehud Olmert acted as Prime Minister until April 14, 2006.

Yitzchak Shamir (left) and Shimon Peres (right). Both appointed acting prime ministers without active implementation of the office.

The Acting Prime Minister ( Hebrew ממלא מקום ראש הממשלה, Memaleh Mekom Rosh HaMemschala , "Platzausfüller the Prime Minister") was created as a precautionary measure in the event that for failure of the prime minister of the provisional prime minister immediately and easily into office as prime minister, first as acting or interim basis or temporarily can not accept.

The Acting Prime Minister is charged with taking on day-to-day business on an interim basis, but is not authorized to make long-term decisions.

The office may only be held provisionally for 100 consecutive days as long as the Prime Minister is incapacitated. While in other countries the term “ Acting Prime Minister ” only refers to a one-off role currently being performed, in Israel the term is also used for a Knesset member who has been appointed “Acting Prime Minister”, even if the activity to be performed never and only becomes current there remains a potential or latent possibility of being able to temporarily exercise the office after all. The update or implementation of the potentially possible activity has only taken place once to date. For example, when Ariel Sharon was formally declared incapable of government on April 11, 2006 and Ehud Olmert acted as Prime Minister until April 14, 2006.

The office was created in 1984 for the elections of the 11th legislative period, when Yitzchak Shamir received this office on September 13, 1984. So the coalition agreement had HaMa'arach and Likud provided that Shimon Peres was to take over the post of Israeli prime minister for the first part of the term during which Shamir appointed as Acting Prime Minister. In September 1986, Shamir was supposed to replace Peres within the framework of the Israeli model and he became provisional prime minister. However, neither of them actively conducted business as acting prime minister.

List of inactive acting prime ministers

Surname	Political party	Term of office
Yitzchak Shamir	Likud	September 13, 1984 - October 20, 1986
Shimon Peres	HaMa'arach	October 20, 1986 - March 15, 1990
Ehud Olmert	Kadima	February 28, 2003 - January 4, 2006
Tzipi Livni	Kadima	May 4, 2006 - March 31, 2009

List of active acting prime ministers

Surname	Political party	Term of office
Ehud Olmert	Kadima	January 4, 2006 - April 14, 2006

Deputy Prime Minister

The office of Deputy Prime Minister ( Hebrew סגן ראש הממשלה, Segan Rosh HaMemshala ) was created in 1963 when Abba Eban received this post in the government of Levi Eshkol . In 1977 Menachem Begin even had two deputies.

This post was abolished from 1992 to 1996, but was re-established when Binyamin Netanyahu appointed four deputies in 1996. There were three deputies in Ehud Olmert's government cabinet: one from his party, and the party leaders of the other two major parties from the governing coalition ( Avoda and Shas ). The second ruling coalition under Benjamin Netanyahu again had four deputies: one from his party ( Likud ), and the party leaders of the three other major parties in the ruling coalition (Schas, Ha'Atzma'ut and Yisrael Beiteinu ).

List of Deputy Prime Ministers

cabinet	Surname	Political party	Term of office
3.	Eliezer Kaplan	Mapai	June 25, 1952 - July 13, 1952
11-12	Abba Eban	Mapai	June 26, 1963 - January 12, 1966
13-17	Jigal Allon	HaMa'arach	July 1, 1968 - March 10, 1974
18th	Simcha Honest	Likud	June 20, 1977 - August 5, 1981
	Jigael Jadin	Dasch , Tnu'a Demokratit , non-party
19th	Simcha Honest	Likud	August 5, 1981 - June 19, 1983
	David Levy	Likud	November 3, 1981 - October 10, 1983
20th	David Levy	Likud	October 10, 1983 - September 13, 1984
21-23	David Levy	Likud	September 13, 1984 - June 11, 1990
	Yitzchak Nawon	HaMa'arach
24.	David Levy	Likud	June 11, 1990 - July 13, 1992
	Moshe Nissim	Likud
27.	David Levy	Gescher	June 18, 1996 - January 6, 1998
	Zebulun hammer	National Religious Party	June 18, 1996 - January 20, 1998
	Rafael Eitan	Tzomet	June 18, 1996 - July 6, 1999
	Moshe Katzav	Likud
28.	Yitzchak Mordecai	Mifleget ha-Merkas	July 6, 1999 - May 30, 2000
	David Levy	Jisra'el agate	July 6, 1999 - August 4, 2000
	Benjamin Ben Eliezer	Jisra'el agate	July 6, 1999 - March 7, 2001
29	Shimon Peres	Avoda	March 7, 2001 - November 2, 2002
	Silvan Shalom	Likud	March 7, 2001 - February 28, 2003
	Natan Sharansky	Yisra'el ba-Aliyah
	Eli Jishai	Schas	March 7, 2001 - May 23, 2002
30th	Josef Lapid	Shinui	February 28, 2003 - December 4, 2004
	Silvan Shalom	Likud	March 7, 2001 - February 28, 2003
31.	Amir Peretz	Avoda	May 4, 2006 - June 18, 2007
	Avigdor Lieberman	Yisrael Beiteinu	October 30, 2006 - January 16, 2008
	Scha'ul mopeds	Kadima	May 4, 2006 - March 31, 2009
	Eli Jishai	Schas
	Ehud Barak	Avoda	June 18, 2007 - March 31, 2009
32.	Avigdor Lieberman	Yisrael Beiteinu	April 1, 2009 - December 14, 2012
	Ehud Barak	Avoda , Ha'Atzma'ut	April 1, 2009 - March 18, 2013
	Dan Meridor	Likud
	Eli Jishai	Schas
	Scha'ul mopeds	Kadima	May 9, 2012 - March 18, 2013

Vice Prime Minister

The office of Vice Prime Minister ( Hebrew משנה ראש הממשלה, Mishneh Rosh HaMemshela ) is an honorary title such as for Shimon Peres .

List of Vice Prime Ministers

cabinet	Surname	Political party	Term of office
30th	Shimon Peres	Avoda	January 10, 2005 - November 23, 2005
31.	Shimon Peres	Kadima	May 4, 2006 - June 13, 2007
31.	Chaim Ramon	Kadima	July 4, 2007 - March 31, 2009
32.	Silvan Shalom	Likud	March 31, 2009 - March 18, 2013
32.	Moshe Jaalon	Likud	March 31, 2009 - March 18, 2013
32.	Scha'ul mopeds	Kadima	May 9, 2012 - July 19, 2012
34.	Silvan Shalom	Likud	May 14, 2015 - December 27, 2015
34.	Moshe Jaalon	Likud	December 27, 2015 - May 22, 2016
35.	Benny Gantz	Chosen LeJisra'el	May 17, 2020 - acting

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katsav asks Olmert to form a government , Globes , April 6, 2006