JERUSALEM (JTA) — A list, by party, of the Israeli government ministers to be sworn in Tuesday.
LIKUD:
Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu
Vice Premier and Regional Cooperation Minister: Silvan Shalom
Vice Premier and Minister of Strategic Affairs: Moshe Ya’alon
Finance: Yuval Steinitz
Education: Gideon Sa’ar
Justice: Yaakov Neeman (Likud-appointed)
Transportation: Yisrael Katz
Diaspora Affairs and National Public Relations: Yuli Edelstein
Communications: Moshe Kahlon
Environmental Protection and Ministerial Liaison to Knesset: Gilad Erdan
Science, Culture and Sport: Limor Livnat
Minister without portfolio (for citizens’ services, computerization and Internet): Michael Eitan
Strategic Affairs: Moshe Ya’alon
Minister without portfolio (for intelligence agencies): Dan Meridor
Minister without portfolio: Benny Begin
Minister without portfolio: Yossi Peled
Yisrael Beiteinu:
Foreign Affairs: Avigdor Lieberman
Public Security: Yitzhak Aharonovitch
National Infrastructures: Uzi Landau
Tourism: Stas Meseznikov
Immigrant Absorption: Sofa Landver
Labor:
Defense: Ehud Barak
Industry, Trade and Labor: Benjamin Ben-Eliezer
Welfare and Social Services: Isaac Herzog
Agriculture: Shalom Simhon
Minister without portfolio (for minorities): Avishay Braverman
Shas:
Interior: Eli Yishai
Construction and Housing: Ariel Atias
Religious Affairs: Ya’acov Margi
Minister without portfolio in Prime Minister’s Office: Meshulam Nahari
Habayit Hayehudi:
Science and Technology: Daniel Herschkowitz
Other:
Health: no appointment, Netanyahu will oversee a deputy minister
(Ehud Barak, Avigdor Lieberman, Eli Yishai, Dan Meridor are deputy prime ministers.)
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