Third government of Israel
Third Ben-Gurion Cabinet | |
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3rd Cabinet of Israel | |
Date formed | 8 October 1951 |
Date dissolved | 24 December 1952 |
People and organisations | |
Head of state | Chaim Weizmann (until 9 November 1952) Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (from 16 December 1952) |
Head of government | David Ben-Gurion |
Member parties | Mapai Hapoel HaMizrachi Mizrachi Agudat Yisrael Poalei Agudat Yisrael Democratic List for Israeli Arabs Progress and Work Agriculture and Development |
Status in legislature | Coalition |
Opposition leader | Peretz Bernstein |
History | |
Election(s) | 1951 Israeli legislative election |
Legislature term(s) | 2nd Knesset |
Predecessor | 2nd cabinet of Israel |
Successor | 4th cabinet of Israel |
The third government of Israel was formed by
Israeli Arab parties, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development
. There were 15 ministers.
Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael left the coalition on 23 September 1952 (though Kalman Kahana remained a deputy minister) shortly after disagreements over the conscription of women into the IDF. This left the government with only 60 of the 120 seats in the Knesset.[1]
The government resigned on 19 December 1952 due to a dispute with the religious parties over religious education.
Two ministers, Eliezer Kaplan and David-Zvi Pinkas died in office.
The Cabinet | |||
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Position | Person | Party | |
Minister of Defense
|
David Ben-Gurion | Mapai | |
Deputy Prime Minister
|
Eliezer Kaplan (until 13 July 1952)[a] | Mapai | |
Minister of Agriculture
|
Levi Eshkol (until 25 June 1952) | Mapai | |
Peretz Naftali (after 25 June 1952) | Mapai | ||
Minister of Education and Culture
|
Ben-Zion Dinor
|
Not an MK[b] | |
Minister of Finance
|
Eliezer Kaplan (until 25 June 1952) | Mapai | |
Levi Eshkol (after 25 June 1952) | Mapai | ||
Minister of Foreign Affairs
|
Moshe Sharett | Mapai | |
Minister of Health
|
Yosef Burg | Hapoel HaMizrachi | |
Minister of Religions
|
Haim-Moshe Shapira | Hapoel HaMizrachi | |
Minister of Justice
|
Dov Yosef (until 25 June 1952) | Mapai | |
Haim Cohn (after 25 June 1952) | Not an MK | ||
Minister of Labour
|
Golda Meir | Mapai | |
Minister of Police
|
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit | Mapai | |
Minister of Postal Services
|
Mordechai Nurock | Mizrachi | |
Minister of Trade and Industry
|
Dov Yosef | Mapai | |
Minister of Transportation
|
David-Zvi Pinkas (until 14 August 1952)[a] | Mizrachi | |
David Ben-Gurion (after 14 August 1952) | Mapai | ||
Minister of Welfare
|
Yitzhak Meir Levin (until 18 September 1952)
|
Agudat Yisrael | |
Minister without Portfolio
|
Peretz Naftali (until 25 June 1952) | Mapai | |
Minister without Portfolio
|
Pinhas Lavon (17 August - 24 December 1952) | Mapai | |
Deputy Minister of Agriculture | Yosef Efrati | Mapai | |
Deputy Minister of Education and Culture | Kalman Kahana | Poalei Agudat Yisrael |
References
- ^ 1952 timeline Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine Jewish Agency for Israel
External links
- Knesset 2: Government 3 Knesset website