Ministry of National Security (Israel)

The Ministry of National Security (Hebrew: המשרד לביטחון לאומי, Arabic: وزارة الأمن القومي), formerly Ministry of Internal Security and Ministry of Public Security, is a government agency of Israel.

Ministry of National Security
המשרד לביטחון לאומי

Emblem of Israel
Agency overview
Formed1948
JurisdictionGovernment of Israel
Minister responsible
Websitewww.mops.gov.il

It is the statewide law enforcement agency and oversees the Israel Police, the Israel Prison Service and the Israel National Fire and Rescue Services, Israel Border Police, National Headquarters for the Protection of Children on the Internet, National Authority for Community Safety and The Authority for Witness Protection.

The current Minister of National Security is Itamar Ben-Gvir.

List of ministers

The Minister of National Security (Hebrew: שר לביטחון לאומי, Sar LeVitahon Leumi) is the political head of the ministry.

Until 1995 the position was known as Minister of Police (Hebrew: שר המשטרה, Sar HaMishtara). The first Minister of Police, Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, was a former policeman, and served in the position from Israeli independence in May 1948 until a month before his death in January 1967, serving in fourteen governments and making him the country's longest continually serving minister. The post was abolished after Menachem Begin became Prime Minister in 1977, but was reinstated in 1984 when Shimon Peres became PM. There is occasionally a Deputy Minister of Public Security. In December 2022, the position was renamed again from The Minister of Public Security (Hebrew: שר לביטחון פנים, Sar LeVitahon Pnim) to the Minister of National Security.

# Minister Party Government Term start Term end Notes
Minister of Police
1Bechor-Shalom SheetritSephardim & Oriental Communities
Mapai
Alignment		P, 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12, 13		14 May 19482 January 1967
2Eliyahu SassonAlignment
Labor Party
Alignment		13, 142 January 196715 December 1969
3Shlomo HillelAlignment15, 16, 1715 December 196920 June 1977
4Haim Bar-LevAlignment21, 22, 2313 September 198415 March 1990
5Roni MiloLikud2411 June 199013 July 1992
6Moshe ShahalLabor Party2513 July 199222 November 1995
Minister of Internal Security
–Moshe ShahalLabor Party2622 November 199518 June 1996
7Avigdor KahalaniThird Way2718 June 19966 July 1999
8Shlomo Ben-AmiOne Israel286 July 19997 March 2001
9Uzi LandauLikud297 March 200128 February 2003
10Tzachi HanegbiLikud3028 February 20036 September 2004
11Gideon EzraLikud
Kadima		306 September 20044 May 2006Initially appointed Acting Minister, with position made permanent on 29 November 2004
12Avi DichterKadima314 May 20061 April 2009
13Yitzhak AharonovichYisrael Beiteinu32, 331 April 200914 May 2015
14Yariv LevinLikud3414 May 201525 May 2015
14Gilad ErdanLikud3425 May 201517 May 2020
15Amir OhanaLikud3517 May 202013 June 2021
16Omer Bar-Lev[1]Labor Party3613 June 202129 December 2022
Minister of National Security
17Itamar Ben-GvirOtzma Yehudit3729 December 2022

Deputy ministers
# Minister Party Government Term start Term end
1 Gideon Ezra Likud 29 7 March 2001 28 February 2003
2 Yaakov Edri Likud
Kadima		 30 10 March 2003 18 January 2006
3 Gadi Yevarkan Likud 35 17 May 2020 13 June 2021
4 Yoav Segalovich Yesh Atid 36 13 June 2021 29 December 2022

Agencies

The unit for inquiries and public complaints

The Public Inquiries and Complaints Unit is a unit that operates as part of the Internal Audit Division of the Ministry of Internal Security and deals mainly with complaints from citizens concerning the activities of the Israel Police, the Prison Service, the National Fire and Rescue Authority, the Authority for the War on Drugs and Alcohol, the Division for Licensing and Inspection of Firearms and other units of the Ministry. In accordance with the Internal Audit Law, the main duties of the Audit and Public Complaints Division are to check whether the audited entities observe the law, proper management, purity of morals, savings and efficiency.

References
  1. "After year of deadlock and days of delays, Knesset swears in new Israeli government". Haaretz. Retrieved 13 May 2021.


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