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 Diaspora Affairs.

The combination of the portfolios of Information and Diaspora relations emphasized the role of the ministry as one of a number of leading spokespersons for the Israeli government abroad, albeit more directly to the Jewish diaspora in comparison to the general state-to-state diplomacy of the Foreign Minister.

List of portfolio holders

Parties

Alignment/Labor Likud Meimad

No.	Name	Party	Term of office		Govt. (P.M.)
Minister of Information (1967–1975)
style="background:Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color:white;" \|1	Yisrael Galili	Alignment (Labor)	5 June 1967	17 March 1969	13 (Eshkol)
Ministry abolished 1969–1974.
style="background:Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color:white;" \|2	Shimon Peres	Alignment (Labor)	10 March 1974	3 June 1974	16 (Meir)
style="background:Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color:white;" \|3	Aharon Yariv	Alignment (Labor)	3 June 1974	4 February 1975	17 (Rabin)
Ministry abolished 1975.
Minister of Social and Diaspora Affairs (1999–2006)
style="background:Template:Meimad/meta/color; color:white;" \|4	Michael Melchior	One Israel (Meimad)	5 August 1999	7 March 2001	28 (Barak)
style="background:Template:Likud/meta/color; color:white;" \|5	Natan Sharansky	Likud	3 March 2003	4 May 2006	30 (Sharon)
Ministry abolished 2006.
Minister of Diaspora, Society and the Fight Against Antisemitism (2007–2009)
style="background:Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color:white;" \|6	Isaac Herzog	Labor	21 March 2007	31 March 2009	31 (Olmert)
Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs (2009– )
style="background:Template:Likud/meta/color; color:white;" \|7	Yuli-Yoel Edelstein	Likud	31 March 2009	18 March 2013	32 (Netanyahu)
style="background:Template:Likud/meta/color; color:white;" \|8	Benjamin Netanyahu	Likud	18 March 2013	Incumbent	33 (Netanyahu)