Ministry of Construction (Israel)

The Housing and Construction Minister of Israel (Hebrew: שר הבינוי והשיכון, Sar HaBinui VeHaShikhun) is the political head of the Israeli Ministry of the Housing and Construction and a portfolio in the Israeli cabinet. The post was created in 1961, and until 1977 was known as the Minister of Housing. Construction was also previously part of the Labour and Construction ministry during the provisional government between 1948 and 1949. The current minister is Ariel Atias of Shas.

There has been a Deputy Minister on several occasions.

List of housing and construction ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Giora Yoseftal	Mapai	10	2/11/61 - 23/8/1962 ¹
Yosef Almogi	Mapai	10, 11, 12	30/10/62 - 23/5/65
Levi Eshkol	Mapai	12	31/5/65 - 12/1/66
Mordechai Bentov	Not an MK ²	13, 14	12/1/66 - 15/12/69
Ze'ev Sherf	Alignment	15	15/12/69 - 10/3/74
Yehoshua Rabinovitz	Not an MK ³	16	10/3/74 - 3/6/74
Avraham Ofer	Alignment	17	3/6/74 - 3/1/1977 ¹
Shlomo Rosen	Not an MK ⁴	17	16/1/77 - 20/6/77
Gideon Patt	Likud	18	20/6/77 - 15/1/79
David Levy	Likud	18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23	15/1/79 - 11/6/90
Ariel Sharon	Likud	24	11/6/90 - 13/7/92
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer	Labor Party	25, 26	13/7/92 - 18/6/96
Benjamin Netanyahu	Likud	27	18/6/96 - 6/7/99
Yitzhak Levy	National Religious Party	28	6/7/99 - 12/7/00
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer	One Israel	28	11/10/00 - 7/3/01
Natan Sharansky	Yisrael BaAliyah	29	7/3/01 - 28/2/03
Effi Eitam	National Religious Party	30	3/3/03 - 10/6/04
Tzipi Livni	Likud	30	4/7/04 - 10/1/05 ⁵
Isaac Herzog	Labor Party	30	10/1/05 - 23/11/05
Ze'ev Boim	Kadima	30	18/1/06 - 4/5/06
Meir Sheetrit	Kadima	31	4/5/06 - 4/7/07
Ze'ev Boim	Kadima	31	4/7/07 - 31/3/2009
Ariel Atias	Shas	32	31/3/2009 - present

¹ Died in office.

² Although Bentov was not an MK at the time of his appointment, he had previously represented Mapam in the Knesset.

³ Although Rabinovitz was not an MK at the time of his appointment, he was elected to the next Knesset on the Alignment's list.

⁴ Although Rosen was not an MK at the time of his appointment, he had previously represented Mapam and the Alignment in the Knesset.

⁵ Livni was acting minister until 31 August, when her appointment was made permanent.

Deputy Ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Moshe Katsav	Likud	20	10/10/1983 - 13/9/1984
Avraham Ravitz	Degel HaTorah	24	25/6/1990 - 13/7/1992
Aryeh Gamliel	Shas	25	29/7/1992 - 9/9/1993
Ran Cohen	Meretz	25	4/8/1992 - 31/12/1992
Eli Ben-Menachem	Labor Party	25, 26	8/4/1993 - 18/6/1996
Alex Goldfarb	Yiud, Atid	25, 26	2/1/1992 - 18/6/1996
Meir Porush	United Torah Judaism	27, 29	24/6/1996 - 6/7/1999 4/6/2001 - 28/2/2003
Eli Ben-Menachem	Labor Party	30	11/1/2005 - 23/11/2005

External links

Ministry of Construction and Housing
All Ministers in the Ministry of Housing and Construction Knesset website