Report: Probable look at Netanyahu government, his 21 ministers and 8 deputy ministers.
Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) Prime Minister , Minister of Foreign Affairs
Moshe Ya`alon (Likud) Minister of Defense
Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) Minister of Finance
Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi) Minister of Economy, Industry, Trade, and Labor, Minister of Religious Services, Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Jerusalem
Tzipi Livni (Livni Party) Minister of Justice
Gideon Sa`ar (Likud) Minister of Internal Affairs
Shai Piron (Yesh Atid) Minister of Education
Yitzhak Aharonovitch (Yisrael Beitenu) Minister of Internal Security
Uri Ariel (Bayit Yehudi) Minister of Housing and Construction
Yael German (Yesh Atid) Minister of Health
Uzi Landau (Yisrael Beitenu) Minister of Tourism
Yisrael Katz (Likud) Minister of Transportation, National Infrastructure, and Road Safety
Gilad Erdan (Likud) Minister of Communications and Minister of Home Front Defence
Yaakov Perry (Yesh Atid) Minister of Science and Technology
Limor Livnat (Likud) Minister of Culture and Sport
Yair Shamir (Yisrael Beitenu) Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Meir Cohen (Yesh Atid) Minister of Welfare and Social Services
Uri Orbach (Bayit Yehudi) Minister for Senior Citizens
Amir Peretz (Livni Party) Minister of Environmental Protection
Sofa Landver (Yisrael Beitenu) Minister of Immigrant Absorption
** Silvan Shalom (Likud) Minister of Energy and Water, Minister of the Development of the Negev and Galil, (possibly Minister of Regional Cooperation)
** Yuval Steinitz (Likud) Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy and Minister of Strategic Affairs
** = Pending
Reported Defense Ministers:
Deputy Defense Danon (Likud)
Deputy Foreign Elkin (Likud)
Deputy Education Vortzman (Bayit Yehudi)
Deputy Religious Ben Dahan (Bayit Yehudi)
Deputy Welfare Minister Levy (Yesh Atid)
Deputy Minister Akunis (Likud)
+ 2 more
* I will update this page as thing change.
I’m looking forward to Monday, that is most likely the day we will swear in a new government. Coalition deals should be on Knesset table Sunday. There is a 24-hour period in between.
This government won’t last 16 months and the reason is Lapid wants to be PM.
That is the type of talk we heard when the previous government was formed.
Remember things can change before there is something in writing.
I’m actually quite happy with this government and I actually do think that it will be stable. If Lapid really does hope to become PM, he’s going to need a record to run on and a year or two will not do it. Plus, if he were to bolt, Shas and UTJ would be back in a heartbeat. I feel a bit sorry for Kadima, though – you think they could have found some minor ministry for them – Tourism or something – but Lapid had this bee in his bonnet about reducing the number of ministers though I am convinced most people don’t care. Netanyahu reduced the number in his first government back in 1996 and no one really thanked him for it.
I do think it’s funny how Shas and UTJ are screaming as if being in the government was their God-given right or something. I’m still sorry Am Shalem didn’t get elected and I actually hope they don’t increase the threshold, but I’m afraid they probably will.
Tourism is on a higher level. I broke it down by 3s.
Let’s hope Lapid stands by his alliance with Bennett and does not support a construction freeze
Update?
I’ll update it tonight 🙂