Ministry of Health (Israel)

The Health Minister of Israel (Hebrew: שר הבריאות, Sar HaBriut) is the political head of the Israeli Ministry of Health and a member of the cabinet. The current Minister of Health is Binyamin Netanyahu (who is also Prime Minister) of Likud.

There is occasionally a Deputy Minister of Health. Abdul-Aziz Zoabi, appointed Deputy Minister on 25 May 1971, was the first non-Jewish minister appointed to the Israeli cabinet.

List of Health Minsters

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Haim-Moshe Shapira	United Religious Front, Hapoel HaMizrachi	Provisional, 1st, 2nd	14/5/1948 - 8/10/1951
Yosef Burg	Hapoel HaMizrachi	3rd	8/10/1951 - 24/12/1952
Yosef Sapir ¹	General Zionists	4th	24/12/1952 - 29/12/1953
Yosef Serlin ¹	General Zionists	4th, 5th	29/12/1953- 29/6/1955
Dov Yosef	Mapai	6th	29/6/1955 - 3/11/1955
Yisrael Barzilai	Mapam	7th, 8th, 9th	3/11/1955 - 2/11/1961
Haim-Moshe Shapira	National Religious Party	10th, 11th, 12th	2/11/1961 - 12/1/1966
Yisrael Barzilai	Not an MK ²	13th, 14th	12/1/1966 - 15/12/1969
Haim Givati	Alignment	15th	22/12/1969 - 27/7/1970
Victor Shem-Tov	Not an MK ³	15th, 16th, 17th	27/7/1970 - 20/6/1977
Eliezer Shostak	Likud	18th, 19th, 20th	20/6/1977 - 13/9/1984
Mordechai Gur	Alignment	21st	13/9/1984 - 20/10/1986
Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino	Alignment	22nd	20/10/1986 - 22/12/1988
Ya'akov Tzur	Alignment	23rd	22/12/1988 - 15/3/1990
Ehud Olmert	Likud	24th	11/6/1990 - 13/7/1992
Haim Ramon	Labor Party	25th	13/7/1992 - 8/2/1994
Yitzhak Rabin ⁴	Labor Party	25th	8/2/1994 - 1/6/1994
Efraim Sneh	Labor Party	25th, 26th	1/6/1994 - 18/6/1996
Tzachi Hanegbi	Likud	27th	18/6/1996 - 12/11/1996
Yehoshua Matza	Likud	27th	12/11/1996 - 6/7/1999
Shlomo Benizri	Shas	28th	6/7/1999 - 11/7/2000
Roni Milo	Centre Party	28th	10/8/2000 - 7/3/2001
Nissim Dahan	Shas	29th	7/3/2001 - 23/5/2002
Ariel Sharon ⁴	Likud	29th	23/5/2002 - 3/6/2002
Nissim Dahan	Shas	29th	3/6/2002 - 28/2/2003
Dan Naveh	Likud	30th	28/2/2003 - 14/1/2006
Yaakov Edri	Kadima	30th	18/1/2006 - 4/5/2006
Yaakov Ben-Yezri	Gil	31st	4/5/2006 - 31/3/2009
Binyamin Netanyahu⁴	Likud	32nd	31/3/2009 - present

¹ Sapir and Serlin swapped ministerial portfolios; Serlin became Minister of Transportation.

² Although Barzilai was not an MK at the time, he was a member of Mapam.

³ Although Shem-Tov was not an MK at the time, he was a member of the Alignment.

⁴ Also serving Prime Minister.

Deputy Ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Yitzhak Rafael	National Religious Party	10th, 11th, 12th	2/11/1961 - 22/3/1965
Shlomo-Israel Ben-Meir	National Religious Party	12th	24/3/1965 - 12/1/1966
Abdul-Aziz Zoabi	Alignment	15th	24/5/1971 - 10/3/1974
Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino	Alignment	21st	24/9/1984 - 20/10/1986
Eliezer Mizrahi	Agudat Israel, Geulat Israel	24th	25/6/1990 - 13/7/1992
Nawaf Massalha	Labor Party	25th, 26th	4/8/1992 - 18/6/1996
Shlomo Benizri	Shas	27th	13/8/1996 - 6/7/1999
Yaakov Litzman	United Torah Judaism	32nd	1/4/2009 - present

External links

All Ministers in the Ministry of Health Knesset website