Ministry of National Security (Israel)

The Ministry of Public Security (Hebrew: המשרד לביטחון הפנים, Arabic: وزارة الأمن الداخلي), also Ministry of Internal Security, is a government agency of Israel. It is the statewide law enforcement agency and oversees the Israel Police, the Israel Prison Service and the Israel National Fire and Rescue Services.

Minister of Public Security

The Minister of Public Security (Hebrew: שר לביטחון פנים, Sar LeVitahon Pnim) is the political head of the ministry. Until 1995 the position was known as Minister of Police (Hebrew: שר המשטרה, Sar HaMishtara). It should not be confused with the Minister of Internal Affairs.

The first Minister of Police, Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, was a former policeman, and served in the position from Israeli independence in May 1948 until a month before his death in January 1967, serving in fourteen governments and making him the country's longest continually serving minister.

The post was abolished after Menachem Begin became Prime Minister in 1977, but was reinstated in 1984 when Shimon Peres became PM.

There is occasionally a Deputy Minister of Public Security.

List of ministers

Parties

Mapai/Alignment/Labor Likud Third Way Kadima Yisrael Beiteinu

Status

Acting Minister

No.	Name	Party	Term of office		Govt. (P.M.)
style="background:Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color:white;" \|1	Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit	Sephardim & Oriental; Mapai; Alignment (Labor)	May 14, 1948	January 2, 1967	Prov·1·2·3·4 (Ben-Gurion) 5·6 (Sharett) 7·8·9·10 (Ben-Gurion) 11·12·13 (Eshkol)
style="background:Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color:white;" \|2	Eliyahu Sasson	Alignment (Labor)	January 2, 1967	December 15, 1969	13 (Eshkol) 14 (Meir)
style="background:Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color:white;" \|3	Shlomo Hillel	Alignment (Labor)	December 15, 1969	June 20, 1977	15·16 (Meir) 17 (Rabin)
Ministry abolished 1977–1984.
style="background:Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color:white;" \|4	Haim Bar-Lev	Alignment (Labor)	September 13, 1984	March 15, 1990	21 (Peres) 22·23 (Shamir)
style="background:Template:Likud/meta/color; color:white;" \|5	Roni Milo	Likud	June 11, 1990	July 13, 1992	24 (Shamir)
style="background:Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color:white;" \|6	Moshe Shahal	Labor	July 13, 1992	June 18, 1996	25 (Rabin) 26 (Peres)
7	Avigdor Kahalani	Third Way	June 18, 1996	July 6, 1999	27 (Netanyahu)
style="background:Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color:white;" \|8	Shlomo Ben-Ami	One Israel (Labor)	July 6, 1999	March 7, 2001	28 (Barak)
style="background:Template:Likud/meta/color; color:white;" \|9	Uzi Landau	Likud	March 7, 2001	February 28, 2003	29 (Sharon)
style="background:Template:Likud/meta/color; color:white;" \|10	Tzachi Hanegbi	Likud	February 28, 2003	September 6, 2004	30 (Sharon)
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Kadima/meta/color; color:white;" \|11	Gideon Ezra	Likud; Kadima	September 6, 2004^[1]	November 29, 2004
September 6, 2004	Gideon Ezra	Likud; Kadima	May 4, 2006
style="background:Template:Kadima/meta/color; color:white;" \|12	Avi Dichter	Kadima	May 4, 2006	April 1, 2009	31 (Olmert)
style="background:Template:Yisrael Beiteinu/meta/color; color:white;" \|13	Yitzhak Aharonovich	Yisrael Beiteinu	April 1, 2009	Incumbent	32 (Netanyahu)

¹ Ezra was initially appointed as Acting Minister, with his position confirmed as permanent on 29 November 2004.

Deputy Ministers

Parties

Likud Kadima

No.	Name	Party	Term of office		Govt.
style="background:Template:Likud/meta/color; color:white;" \|1	Gideon Ezra	Likud	March 7, 2001	February 28, 2003	29
style="background:Template:Kadima/meta/color; color:white;" \|2	Yaakov Edri	Likud; Kadima	March 10, 2003	January 18, 2006	30

Public Security Agencies

External links

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