Ministry of Economy (Israel)

The Ministry of Economy (Hebrew: משרד הכלכלה, Misrad HaKalkala) is a ministry of the Israeli government that oversees commerce, industry and labor in Israel.

Ministry of Economy
משרד הכלכלה
Agency overview
Formed1949
JurisdictionGovernment of Israel
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
Agency executive
  • Amnon Merhav, General Director
Websitewww.economy.gov.il

History

The ministry was established in 1948 as the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. In 1977 the Tourism Ministry post was added to it, becoming the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism. However, the merger was reversed in 1981 and the office was renamed Ministry of Industry and Trade. Labor, which had been merged with the Welfare Ministry in the 1970s, was appended to the portfolio in 2003.

List of ministers
# Minister Party Government Term start Term end Notes
Minister of Trade and Industry
1Peretz BernsteinGeneral ZionistsP14 May 194810 March 1949
2Eliezer KaplanMapai110 March 19491 November 1950
3Ya'akov GeriNot an MK21 November 19508 October 1951
4Dov YosefMapai38 October 195124 December 1952
–Peretz BernsteinGeneral Zionists4, 524 December 195229 June 1955
5Peretz NaftaliMapai629 June 19553 November 1955
6Pinchas SapirMapai7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 123 November 195525 May 1965
7Haim Yosef ZadokMapai, Alignment12, 1325 May 196522 November 1966
8Ze'ev SherfAlignment13, 1422 November 196615 December 1969
9Yosef SapirGahal1515 December 19696 August 1970
–Pinchas SapirAlignment151 September 19705 March 1972
10Haim Bar-LevNot an MK15, 16, 175 March 197220 June 1977Not an MK at the time of his appointment, but later elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list
Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism
11Yigal HurvitzLikud1820 June 19771 October 1978
12Gideon PattLikud1815 January 19795 August 1981
Minister of Industry and Trade
–Gideon PattLikud19, 205 August 198113 September 1984
13Ariel SharonLikud21, 22, 2313 September 198420 February 1990
14Moshe NissimLikud23, 247 March 199013 July 1992
15Michael HarishLabor Party25, 2613 July 199218 June 1996
16Natan SharanskyYisrael BaAliyah2718 June 19966 July 1999
17Ran CohenMeretz286 July 199924 June 2000
18Ehud BarakOne Israel2824 September 20007 March 2001
19Dalia ItzikLabor Party297 March 20012 November 2002
–Ariel SharonLikud292 November 200228 February 2003
Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor
20Ehud OlmertLikud, Kadima3028 February 20034 May 2006
21Eli YishaiShas314 May 200631 March 2009
22Binyamin Ben-EliezerLabor Party3231 March 200917 January 2011
23Shalom SimhonIndependence3218 January 201122 January 2013
Minister of the Economy
24Naftali BennettThe Jewish Home3323 January 201314 May 2015
25Aryeh DeriShas3414 May 20153 November 2015
26Benjamin NetanyahuLikud343 November 20151 August 2016
27Moshe KahlonKulanu341 August 201623 January 2017
28Eli CohenKulanu3423 January 201717 May 2020
29Amir PeretzLabor Party3517 May 202013 June 2021
30Orna BarbivaiYesh Atid3613 June 202129 December 2022
31Nir BarkatLikud3729 December 2022

Deputy ministers
# Minister Party Government Term start Term end
1Zalman SuzayivGeneral Zionists4, 515 June 195329 June 1955
2Aryeh EliavAlignment1317 October 196622 November 1966
–Aryeh EliavAlignment1328 November 196626 June 1967
3Yitzhak PeretzLikud1828 June 197715 January 1979
4Masha LubelskyLabor Party25, 264 August 199218 June 1996
5Eli Ben-MenachemLabor Party297 March 20012 November 2002
6Michael RatzonLikud305 March 200328 October 2004
7Eli AflaloKadima3030 March 20054 May 2006
8Orit NokedLabor Party3231 March 200918 January 2011
9Yair GolanMeretz3613 June 202129 December 2022

References
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