Ministry of Communications (Israel)

Ministry of Communicationsמשרד התקשורת

Emblem of Israel
Agency overview
Formed| 1952
Jurisdiction| Government of Israel
Minister responsible|

* Shlomo Karhi

Website| www.moc.gov.il

The Ministry of Communications (Hebrew: משרד התקשורת, Misrad HaTikshoret) is the Israeli government ministry responsible for Communications in Israel. The ministry was established in 1952 and was known as the Ministry of Postal Services (Hebrew: משרד הדואר, Misrad HaDo'ar) until 1970.

## List of ministers

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The Communications Minister of Israel (Hebrew: שר התקשורת, Sar HaTikshoret) is the political head of the ministry. There is occasionally a Deputy Minister.

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Minister of Postal Services
1 | Mordechai Nurock | Mizrachi | 3 | 3 November 1952 (1952-11-03) | 24 December 1952 (1952-12-24) |
2 | Yosef Burg | Hapoel HaMizrachi
National Religious Party | 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | 24 December 1952 (1952-12-24) | 1 July 1958 (1958-07-01) |
3 | Yisrael Barzilai | Mapam | 8 | 24 November 1958 (1958-11-24) | 17 December 1959 (1959-12-17) |
4 | Binyamin Mintz | Poalei Agudat Yisrael | 9 | 17 July 1960 (1960-07-17) | 30 May 1961 (1961-05-30) | Died in office
5 | Eliyahu Sasson | Alignment | 10, 11, 12, 13 | 2 November 1961 (1961-11-02) | 2 January 1967 (1967-01-02) | Not an MK until after the 1965 elections
6 | Yisrael Yeshayahu | Alignment | 13, 14 | 2 January 1967 (1967-01-02) | 15 December 1969 (1969-12-15) |
7 | Elimelekh Rimalt | Gahal | 15 | 15 December 1969 (1969-12-15) | 6 August 1970 (1970-08-06) |
Minister of Communications
8 | Shimon Peres | Alignment | 15 | 1 September 1970 (1970-09-01) | 10 March 1974 (1974-03-10) |
9 | Aharon Uzan | Not an MK | 16 | 10 March 1974 (1974-03-10) | 3 June 1974 (1974-06-03) |
10 | Yitzhak Rabin | Alignment | 17 | 3 June 1974 (1974-06-03) | 20 March 1975 (1975-03-20) |
– | Aharon Uzan | Not an MK | 17 | 20 March 1975 (1975-03-20) | 20 June 1977 (1977-06-20) |
11 | Menachem Begin | Likud | 18 | 20 June 1977 (1977-06-20) | 24 October 1977 (1977-10-24) |
12 | Meir Amit | Dash | 18 | 20 June 1977 (1977-06-20) | 15 September 1978 (1978-09-15) |
13 | Yitzhak Moda'i | Likud | 18 | 15 January 1979 (1979-01-15) | 22 December 1980 (1980-12-22) |
14 | Yoram Aridor | Likud | 18 | 5 January 1981 (1981-01-05) | 5 August 1981 (1981-08-05) |
15 | Mordechai Tzipori | Likud | 19, 20 | 5 August 1981 (1981-08-05) | 13 September 1984 (1984-09-13) |
16 | Amnon Rubinstein | Shinui | 21, 22 | 13 September 1984 (1984-09-13) | 26 May 1987 (1987-05-26) |
17 | Gad Yaacobi | Alignment | 22, 23 | 9 June 1987 (1987-06-09) | 15 March 1990 (1990-03-15) |
18 | Rafael Pinhasi | Shas | 24 | 11 June 1990 (1990-06-11) | 13 July 1992 (1992-07-13) |
19 | Moshe Shahal | Labor Party | 25 | 13 July 1992 (1992-07-13) | 7 June 1993 (1993-06-07) |
20 | Shulamit Aloni | Meretz | 25, 26 | 7 June 1993 (1993-06-07) | 18 June 1996 (1996-06-18) |
21 | Limor Livnat | Likud | 27 | 18 June 1996 (1996-06-18) | 6 July 1999 (1999-07-06) |
22 | Binyamin Ben-Eliezer | One Israel | 28 | 6 July 1999 (1999-07-06) | 7 March 2001 (2001-03-07) |
23 | Reuven Rivlin | Likud | 29 | 7 March 2001 (2001-03-07) | 28 February 2003 (2003-02-28) |
24 | Ariel Sharon | Likud | 30 | 28 February 2003 (2003-02-28) | 17 August 2003 (2003-08-17) |
25 | Ehud Olmert | Likud | 30 | 29 September 2003 (2003-09-29) | 10 January 2005 (2005-01-10) |
26 | Dalia Itzik | Labor Party | 30 | 10 January 2005 (2005-01-10) | 23 November 2005 (2005-11-23) |
27 | Avraham Hirschson | Kadima | 30 | 18 January 2006 (2006-01-18) | 4 May 2006 (2006-05-04) |
28 | Ariel Atias | Shas | 31 | 4 May 2006 (2006-05-04) | 31 April 2009 (2009-04-31) |
29 | Moshe Kahlon | Likud | 32 | 31 April 2009 | 18 March 2013 |
30 | Gilad Erdan | Likud | 33 | 18 March 2013 | 5 November 2014 |
31 | Benjamin Netanyahu | Likud | 33, 34 | 5 November 2014 | 21 February 2017 | Also serving Prime Minister
32 | Tzachi Hanegbi | Likud | 34 | 21 February 2017 | 29 May 2017 | Acting Minister
33 | Ayoob Kara | Likud | 34 | 29 May 2017 (2017-05-29) | 24 June 2019 (2019-06-24) |
34 | Dudi Amsalem | Likud | 34 | 1 July 2019 (2019-07-01) | 17 May 2020 (2020-05-17) |
35 | Yoaz Hendel | Derekh Eretz | 35 | 17 May 2020 (2020-05-17) | 16 December 2020 (2020-12-16) |
36 | Eitan Ginzburg | Blue and White | 35 | 3 May 2021 (2021-05-03) | 13 June 2021 (2021-06-13) |
37 | Yoaz Hendel | New Hope | 36 | 13 June 2021 (2021-06-13) | 29 December 2022 (2022-12-29) |
38 | Shlomo Karhi | Likud | 37 | 29 December 2022 (2022-12-29) |  |

### Deputy ministers

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1 | Jabr Muadi | Progress and Development, Alignment | 15, 16, 17 | 27 October 1971 (1971-10-27) | 24 March 1975 (1975-03-24)
2 | Eliyahu Moyal | Alignment | 17 | 24 March 1975 (1975-03-24) | 20 June 1977 (1977-06-20)
3 | Efraim Gur | Alignment | 24 | 2 July 1990 (1990-07-02) | 20 November 1990 (1990-11-20)
4 | Yitzhak Vaknin | Shas | 28 | 5 August 1999 (1999-08-05) | 11 July 2000 (2000-07-11)

## External links

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* All Ministers in the Ministry of Communications Knesset website
* Israel Ministry of Communications site in English

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Communications Ministers of Israel

* Nurock (1952)
* Burg (1952–58)
* Barzilai (1958–59)
* Mintz (1960–61)
* Sasson (1961–67)
* Yeshayahu (1967–69)
* Rimalt (1969–70)
* Peres (1970–74)
* Uzan (1974)
* Rabin (1974–75)
* Uzan (1975–77)
* Begin (1977)
* Amit (1977–78)
* Moda'i (1979–80)
* Aridor (1981)
* Tzipori (1981–84)
* Rubinstein (1984–87)
* Yaacobi (1987–90)
* Pinhasi (1990–92)
* Shahal (1992–93)
* Aloni (1993–96)
* Livnat (1996–99)
* Ben-Eliezer (1999–2001)
* Rivlin (2001–03)
* Sharon (2003)
* Olmert (2003–05)
* Itzik (2005)
* Hirschson (2006)
* Atias (2006–2009)
* Kahlon (2009–13)
* Erdan (2013–14)
* Netanyahu (2014–17)
* Hanegbi (2017)
* Kara (2017–19)
* Amsalem (2019–20)
* Hendel (2020)
* Ginzburg (2021)
* Hendel (2021–22)
* Karhi (2022–)

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