Ministry of Transport and Road Safety
| משרד התחבורה, התשתיות הלאומיות והבטיחות בדרכים | |
 Ministry of Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety Headquarters | |
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| Formed | 1948 |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Israel |
| Headquarters | Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety Building, Givat Ram, Jerusalem |
| Annual budget | 452 million New Shekel[1] |
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The Ministry of Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety (MOT) (Template:Lang-he) is a government agency that handles transportation and road safety issues in Israel. The ministry headquarters are in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.[2]
Functions and structure
The Ministry of Transport handles road safety; operation of traffic services; and maintaining international air, sea, and overland links. Land transport departments include the Licensing Division, Vehicles Division, Traffic Division, Road Safety Administration, and Financial Supervision Division. The Shipping and Ports Administration handles maritime transport, and the Civil Aviation Administration handles air transport. The Meteorological Service covers all three areas. Units subordinate to the director-general include Planning and Economics, Legal Counsel, Public Relations, Internal Auditing, Finance, and Emergency Arrangements. The Israel Airports Authority and the Ports and Railways Authority have a special status as corporations established by law.
The Planning and Economics Division coordinates transport policy, work plans, budgets, and funding; sets policy on prices, levies, and fees; monitors the administration of the Airports Authority and the Ports and Railways Authority; coordinates information systems and transportation research; and oversees physical planning and monitoring of master plans.[3]
Development plans
In 2010, Nir Barkat, mayor of Jerusalem, unveiled a NIS 8 billion transportation plan for the city drawn up in collaboration with the Transport Ministry. The plan includes a new light rail line, extensions of the first phase of the red line now under construction, a series of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) routes and five new roads.[4]
List of ministers
The Minister of Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety (Template:Lang-he, Sar HaTahbura, HaTashtiyot HaLe'umiyot VeHaBetihut BaDrakhim), formerly Minister of Transport heads the ministry. A relatively minor post in the Israeli cabinet, it is often given to smaller parties in the governing coalitions.[citation needed] Nevertheless, there has been a Minister of Transport in every Israeli government to date. Yisrael Katz of Likud is the incumbent.[5]
Three Prime Ministers (David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon) have held the transport portfolio whilst in office, though only for a short time, whilst three Ministers of Transport (Ezer Weizman, Moshe Katsav and Shimon Peres) had gone on to become President.
There is also occasionally a Deputy Minister of Transport.[5]
| # | Minister | Party | Government | Term start | Term end | Notes |
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| Minister of Transportation | ||||||
| 1 | David Remez | Mapai | P, 1 | May 14, 1948 | November 1, 1950 | |
| 2 | Dov Yosef | Mapai | 2 | November 1, 1950 | October 8, 1951 | |
| 3 | David-Zvi Pinkas | Mizrachi | 3 | October 8, 1951 | August 14, 1952 | Died in office |
| 4 | David Ben-Gurion | Mapai | 3 | August 14, 1952 | December 24, 1952 | Serving Prime Minister |
| 5 | Yosef Serlin | General Zionists | 4 | December 24, 1952 | December 29, 1953 | |
| 6 | Yosef Sapir | General Zionists | 4, 5 | December 29, 1953 | June 29, 1955 | |
| 7 | Zalman Aran | Mapai | 6 | June 29, 1955 | November 3, 1955 | |
| 8 | Moshe Carmel | Ahdut HaAvoda | 7, 8 | November 3, 1955 | December 17, 1959 | Not an MK until 9 June 1958 |
| 9 | Yitzhak Ben-Aharon | Ahdut HaAvoda | 9, 10 | December 17, 1959 | May 28, 1962 | |
| 10 | Yisrael Bar-Yehuda | Ahdut HaAvoda | 10, 11, 12 | May 28, 1962 | May 4, 1965 | Died in office |
| – | Moshe Carmel | Ahdut HaAvoda Alignment Labor Party Alignment |
12, 13, 14 | May 30, 1965 | December 15, 1969 | Not an MK after 17 March 1969 |
| 11 | Ezer Weizman | Not an MK | 15 | December 15, 1969 | August 6, 1970 | |
| 12 | Shimon Peres | Alignment | 15 | September 1, 1970 | March 10, 1974 | |
| 13 | Aharon Yariv | Alignment | 16 | March 10, 1974 | June 3, 1974 | |
| 14 | Gad Yaacobi | Alignment | 17 | June 3, 1974 | June 20, 1977 | |
| 15 | Menahem Begin | Likud | 18 | June 20, 1977 | October 24, 1977 | Serving Prime Minister |
| 16 | Meir Amit | Democratic Movement for Change | 18 | October 24, 1977 | September 15, 1978 | |
| 17 | Haim Landau | Not an MK | 18 | January 15, 1979 | August 5, 1981 | |
| 18 | Haim Corfo | Likud | 19, 20, 21, 22 | August 5, 1981 | December 22, 1988 | |
| 19 | Moshe Katsav | Likud | 23, 24 | December 22, 1988 | July 13, 1992 | |
| 20 | Yisrael Kessar | Labor Party | 25, 26 | July 13, 1992 | June 18, 1996 | |
| 21 | Yitzhak Levy | National Religious Party | 27 | June 18, 1996 | February 25, 1998 | |
| 22 | Shaul Yahalom | National Religious Party | 27 | February 25, 1998 | July 6, 1999 | |
| 23 | Yitzhak Mordechai | Centre Party | 28 | July 6, 1999 | May 30, 2000 | |
| 24 | Amnon Lipkin-Shahak | Centre Party | 28 | October 11, 2000 | March 7, 2001 | |
| 25 | Ephraim Sneh | Labor Party | 29 | March 7, 2001 | November 2, 2002 | |
| 26 | Ariel Sharon | Likud | 29 | November 2, 2002 | December 15, 2002 | Serving Prime Minister |
| 27 | Tzachi Hanegbi | Likud | 29 | December 15, 2002 | February 28, 2003 | |
| 29 | Avigdor Lieberman | National Union | 30 | February 28, 2003 | June 6, 2004 | |
| 30 | Meir Sheetrit | Likud | 30 | August 31, 2004 | May 4, 2006 | |
| Minister of Transportation and Road Safety | ||||||
| 31 | Shaul Mofaz | Kadima | 31 | May 4, 2006 | March 31, 2009 | |
| Minister of Transportation, National Infrastructure, and Road Safety | ||||||
| 32 | Yisrael Katz | Likud | 32 | 31 March 2009 | 18 March 2013 | |
| Minister of Transportation and Road Safety | ||||||
| – | Yisrael Katz | Likud | 33, 34 | 18 March 2013 | ||
List of deputy ministers
| # | Minister | Party | Government | Term start | Term end | Notes |
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| 1 | Reuven Sheri | Mapai | 2 | April 2, 1951 | October 8, 1951 | |
| 2 | Gad Yaacobi | Alignment | 15 | November 2, 1972 | March 10, 1974 | |
| 3 | David Shiffman | Likud | 19 | August 11, 1981 | October 18, 1982 | Died in office |
| 4 | Pinhas Goldstein | New Liberal Party | 24 | July 2, 1990 | November 20, 1990 | |
| 5 | Efraim Gur | Unity for Peace and Immigration Likud |
24 | November 20, 1990 | July 13, 1992 | |
| 6 | Avraham Yehezkel | Labor Party | 29 | March 7, 2001 | November 2, 2002 | |
| 7 | Sofa Landver | Labor Party | 29 | August 12, 2002 | November 2, 2002 | |
| 8 | Shmuel Halpert | Agudat Yisrael | 30 | March 30, 2005 | May 4, 2006 | |
| 9 | Tzipi Hotovely | Likud | 33 | 18 March 2013 | 14 May 2015 |
References
- ^ http://www.financeisrael.mof.gov.il/FinanceIsrael/Docs/En/publications/StateBudgetProposal2013-2014.pdf
- ^ "MOT General Contacts." Ministry of Transport and Road Safety. Retrieved on 26 August 2010.
- ^ Ministry of transport
- ^ Jerusalem presents new transport plan, Jerusalem Post
- ^ a b All Ministers in the Ministry of Transportation Knesset website
External links
- Ministry of Transport and Road Safety
- Ministry of Transport and Road Safety Template:He icon
- Ministry of Transport and Road Safety Template:Ar icon
- All Ministers in the Ministry of Transportation Knesset website
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