Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism

The Information and Diaspora Minister of Israel is a post in the Israeli cabinet, created in March 2009. Previously there had been both a Minister of Information (1967 to 1969 and 1974 to 1975), a Minister of Social and Disapora Affairs (1999 to 2001 and 2003 to 2006), and a Minister of Diaspora, Society and the Fight Against Antisemitism (2007 until 2009). Between June and November 2005 there was also a Deputy Minister of Social and Disapora Affairs.

List of portfolio holders

Post title	Minister	Party	Governments	Dates in Office
Information	Yisrael Galili	Alignment, Labor Party	13	5/6/1967 - 17/3/1969
Information	Shimon Peres	Alignment	16	10/3/1974 - 3/6/1974
Information	Aharon Yariv	Alignment	17	3/6/1974 - 4/2/1975
Social and Disapora Affairs	Michael Melchior	One Israel	28	5/8/1999 - 7/3/2001
Social and Disapora Affairs	Natan Sharansky	Likud	30	3/3/2003 - 4/5/2006
Diaspora, Society and the Fight Against Antisemitism	Isaac Herzog	Labor Party	31	21/3/2007 - 31/3/2009
Information and Diaspora	Yuli-Yoel Edelstein	Likud	32	31/3/2009 - present

Deputy ministers

Minister	Party	Governments	Dates in Office
Michael Melchior	Meimad	30	20/6/2005 - 23/11/2005

External links

• All Ministers in the Ministry of Information Knesset website