Israel’s NEW GOVERNMENT
Naftali Bennett*1 Yair Lapid*1 Benny Gantz* After four elections in the span of two years, Israel Prime Minister Foreign Affairs Defense (Yamina) Alt. Prime Minister (Kachol Lavan) has a new government that could break the country’s (Yesh Atid) political deadock.
GOVERNMENT MEMBERS by party and ideology
Yesh Atid 17 seats
Kachol Lavan 8 seats Avigdor Liberman* Omer Bar-Lev Ayelet Shaked1 Finance Public Security Interior Labor 7 seats (Yisrael Beiteinu) (Labor) (Yamina) Yisrael Beiteinu 7 seats
Yamina 6 seats
New Hope 6 seats
Meretz 6 seats
Ra’am 4 seats Merav Michaeli* Nitzan Horowitz* Gideon Sa’ar*1 Transportation Health Justice (Labor) (Meretz) (New Hope)
Centrist Parties 25 seats
Right-wing Parties 19 seats
Left-wing Parties 13 seats
Islamists 4 seats Orna Barbivai Yifat Shasha-Biton Issawi Frej Economy Education Regional (Yesh Atid) (New Hope) Cooperation (Meretz) WHERE IS Benjamin Netanyahu? With the inauguration of the new Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu has lost the premiership, sending the erstwhile prime minister and his Likud
Karine Elharrar Tamar Zandberg Pnina Tamano-Shata party to the opposition for the first time since 2009. Energy Environmental Aliyah/Immigrant (Yesh Atid) Protection Absorption For the time being, Netanyahu will remain head of (Meretz) (Kachol Lavan) the Likud and serve as leader of the opposition.
* denotes party leader 1 Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, Gideon Sa’ar, and Ayelet Shaked are party to a rotiation agreement. After August 2023, Lapid will become prime minister for the next two years, while Bennett will become alternate prime minister and interior minister, Sa’ar will become minister of foreign affairs, and Shaked will become justice minister.