Get To Know The New Israeli Government

 On Monday March 18th 2013,  the new Israeli government was sworn in – the 33rd Knesset. The government ministers were sworn in individually, each promising to be faithful to the State of Israel and its laws, and to fulfill his or her duties as a member of Knesset. The new government features Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-Beiteinu faction, the Yesh Atid party led by Yair Lapid, the Jewish Home party led by Naphtali Bennett, and Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua Party.

33rd Israeli Government

 Shimon Peres – President

 Benjamin Netanyahu – Prime Minister
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Public Affairs and the Diaspora

 Yitzhak Aharonovitch – Minister of Public Security
 Uri Ariel – Minister of Housing and Construction
 Naftali Bennett – Minister of Trade, Industry and Labor, Minister of Religious Services, Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs
 Meir Cohen – Minister of Welfare and Social Affairs
 Gilad Erdan – Minister of Communications and Home Front Protection
 Yael German – Minister of Health
 Yisrael Katz – Minister of of Transportation, National Infrastructures and Road Safety
 Uzi Landau – Minister of Tourism
 Sofa Landver – Minister of Immigration Absorption
 Yair Lapid – Minister of Finance
 Limor Livnat – Minister of Culture and Sport
 Tzipi Livni – Minister of Justice
 Uri Orbach – Minister for Senior Citizens
 Amir Peretz – Minister of Environmental Protection
 Yaakov Perry – Minister of Science and Technology
 Shai Piron – Minister of Education
 Gideon Sa’ar – Minister of the Interior
 Silvan Shalom – Minister of Water and Energy, Minister for Regional Development and the       Development of the Negev and the Galilee
 Yair Shamir – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
 Yuval Steinitz – Minister of Strategic and Intelligence Affairs responsible for International Relations
 Moshe Ya’alon – Minister of Defense

(Taken From Times of Israel and MFA.gov.il )