Ministry of Interior (Israel)
Appearance
משרד הפנים | |
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Agency overview | |
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Formed | 1948 |
Jurisdiction | Government of Israel |
Headquarters | 2 Kaplan st., Kiryat HaMemshala, Jerusalem 31°46′44.07″N 35°12′5.08″E / 31.7789083°N 35.2014111°E |
Minister responsible | |
Website | www |
The Ministry of Interior (Hebrew: משרד הפנים, Misrad HaPnim; Arabic: وزارة الداخلية) in the State of Israel is one of the government offices that is responsible for local government, citizenship and residency, identity cards, and student and entry visas. The current Minister is Ayelet Shaked.
Responsibilities
- Providing citizenship and permanent resident status.
- Issuing of entry visas and staying visas in the country.
- Inhabitants administration: personal registration
- Issuing of Israeli identity cards.
- Issuing of Israeli passports.
- Personal registrations such as birth, marriage etc.
- Local government, city councils and local councils supervision
- Elections
- Associations
- Planning and building supervising
Departments
- Local Government Administration
- Planning Administration
- Emergency Service Administration
- Biometric Database Administration Authority
- Population and Immigration Authority
- National Planning Headquarters
Source: [1]
List of ministers
# | Name | Party | Governments | Term start | Term end |
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1 | Yitzhak Gruenbaum | Independent | P | 14 May 1948 | 10 March 1949 |
2 | Haim-Moshe Shapira | United Religious Front, Hapoel HaMizrachi |
1, 2, 3 | 10 March 1949 | 24 December 1952 |
3 | Israel Rokah | General Zionists | 4, 5 | 24 December 1952 | 29 June 1955 |
– | Haim-Moshe Shapira | Hapoel HaMizrachi | 6 | 29 June 1955 | 3 November 1955 |
4 | Israel Bar-Yehuda | Ahdut HaAvoda | 7, 8 | 3 November 1955 | 17 December 1959 |
– | Haim-Moshe Shapira | National Religious Party | 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 | 17 December 1959 | 16 July 1970 |
5 | Golda Meir | Alignment | 15 | 16 July 1970 | 1 September 1970 |
6 | Yosef Burg | National Religious Party | 15, 16 | 1 September 1970 | 3 June 1974 |
7 | Shlomo Hillel | Alignment | 17 | 3 June 1974 | 29 October 1974 |
– | Yosef Burg | National Religious Party | 17 | 29 October 1974 | 22 December 1976 |
– | Shlomo Hillel | Alignment | 17 | 16 January 1977 | 20 June 1977 |
– | Yosef Burg | National Religious Party | 18, 19, 20 | 20 June 1977 | 13 September 1984 |
8 | Shimon Peres | Alignment | 21 | 13 September 1984 | 24 December 1984 |
9 | Yitzhak Peretz | Shas | 21, 22 | 24 December 1984 | 6 January 1987 |
10 | Yitzhak Shamir | Likud | 22 | 6 January 1987 | 22 December 1988 |
11 | Aryeh Deri | Shas | 23, 24, 25 | 22 December 1988 | 11 May 1993 |
12 | Yitzhak Rabin | Labor Party | 25 | 11 May 1993 | 7 June 1993 |
– | Aryeh Deri | Shas | 25 | 7 June 1993 | 14 September 1993 |
– | Yitzhak Rabin | Labor Party | 25 | 14 September 1993 | 27 February 1995 |
13 | Uzi Baram | Labor Party | 25 | 27 February 1995 | 7 June 1995 |
14 | David Libai | Labor Party | 25 | 19 June 1995 | 18 July 1995 |
15 | Ehud Barak | Labor Party | 25 | 18 July 1995 | 22 November 1995 |
16 | Haim Ramon | Labor Party | 26 | 22 November 1995 | 18 June 1996 |
17 | Eli Suissa | Not an MK | 27 | 18 June 1996 | 6 July 1999 |
18 | Natan Sharansky | Yisrael BaAliyah | 28 | 6 July 1999 | 11 July 2000 |
– | Haim Ramon | One Israel | 28 | 11 July 2000 | 7 March 2001 |
19 | Eli Yishai | Shas | 29 | 7 March 2001 | 23 May 2002 |
20 | Ariel Sharon | Likud | 29 | 23 May 2002 | 3 June 2002 |
– | Eli Yishai | Shas | 29 | 3 June 2002 | 28 February 2003 |
21 | Avraham Poraz | Shinui | 30 | 28 February 2003 | 4 December 2004 |
22 | Ophir Pines-Paz | Labor Party | 30 | 10 January 2005 | 23 November 2005 |
– | Ariel Sharon | Kadima | 30 | 23 November 2005 | 4 May 2006 |
23 | Roni Bar-On | Kadima | 31 | 4 May 2006 | 4 July 2007 |
24 | Meir Sheetrit | Kadima | 31 | 4 July 2007 | 31 March 2009 |
– | Eli Yishai | Shas | 32 | 31 March 2009 | 18 March 2013 |
25 | Gideon Sa'ar | Likud | 33 | 18 March 2013 | 5 November 2014 |
26 | Gilad Erdan | Likud | 33 | 5 November 2014 | 14 May 2015 |
27 | Silvan Shalom | Likud | 34 | 14 May 2015 | 27 December 2015 |
28 | Benjamin Netanyahu | Likud | 34 | 27 December 2015 | 11 January 2016 |
– | Aryeh Deri | Shas | 34, 35 | 11 January 2016 | 13 June 2021 |
29 | Ayelet Shaked | Yamina | 36 | 13 June 2021 |
Deputy ministers
# | Name | Party | Governments | Term start | Term end |
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1 | Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir | National Religious Party | 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 | 28 December 1959 | 15 December 1969 |
2 | Yosef Goldschmidt | National Religious Party | 15 | 22 December 1969 | 16 July 1970 |
– | Yosef Goldschmidt | National Religious Party | 15 | 19 July 1970 | 1 September 1970 |
3 | Rafael Pinhasi | Shas | 23 | 15 January 1990 | 11 June 1990 |
4 | Salah Tarif | Labor Party | 25 | 27 November 1995 | 18 June 1996 |
5 | David Azulai | Shas | 29 | 2 May 2001 | 23 May 2002 |
– | David Azulai | Shas | 29 | 3 June 2002 | 28 February 2003 |
6 | Victor Brailovsky | Shinui | 30 | 5 March 2003 | 29 November 2004 |
7 | Ruhama Avraham | Kadima | 30 | 30 March 2005 | 4 May 2006 |
8 | Yaron Mazuz | Likud | 34 | 14 June 2015 | 11 January 2016 |
9 | Meshulam Nahari | Shas | 34 | 13 January 2016 |
References
- ^ "משרד הפנים - מבנה ארגוני קיים" [Ministry of the Interior – Current Organizational Structure] (PDF). Israel Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
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