The new government is expected to have 22 ministers, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Here are the agreed-upon portfolios/
By LAHAV HARKOVRed carpet laid out for opening of 19th Knesset 370(photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post)
The new government is expected to have 22 ministers, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Here are the agreed-upon portfolios.Likud Beytenu Binyamin Netanyahu – prime minister and temporary foreign ministerMoshe Ya’alon – defense ministerGideon Sa’ar – interior ministerYair Shamir – agriculture ministerYitzhak Aharonovitch – public security ministerSofa Landver – immigration absorption ministerUzi Landau – tourism ministerIsrael Katz – transportation minister
Gilad Erdan, Silvan Shalom, Yuval Steinitz and Limor Livnat are expected to divide the Ministries of Communications, Infrastructure, Strategic Affairs and Home Front DefenseExpected deputy ministers: deputy education minister, deputy health ministerYuli Edelstein – Knesset speakerAvigdor Liberman – Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair man, foreign minister if exonerated in corruption trial Tzachi Hanegbi - coalition chairmanYesh Atid Yair Lapid – finance ministerShai Piron – education ministerMeir Cohen – welfare and social services ministerYael German – health ministerYaakov Peri – science ministerOfer Shelah – deputy defense ministerBayit Yehudi Naftali Bennett – economics and trade minister (formerly Industry, trade and labor), with responsibility for the Religious Services Ministry and the Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs MinistryUri Ariel – construction and housing, including the Israel Lands AuthorityUri Orbach – pensioners affairsEliahu Ben-Dahan – deputy religious services minister, with expanded responsibilities, including conversion, the Chief Rabbinate and yeshivasNissan Slomiansky and Ayelet Shaked – rotation for head of the Knesset Finance CommitteeHatnua Tzipi Livni – justice ministerAmir Peretz – environmental protection minister
