The Ministry of Aliyah and Integration is an Israeli cabinet-level ministry focused on the immigration of non-Israeli Jews to the State of Israel.
Purpose In coordination with local authorities and the Jewish Agency, the Ministry is responsible for helping new immigrants (olim) find employment and accommodation, and gives advice on education, planning and social issues, as well as setting up the "immigrant basket" of benefits (such as tax breaks, grants etc.).
History The ministry was known until 1951 as the Ministry of Immigration (, Misrad HaAliya, "Ministry of Aliyah") and later renamed , HaMisrad LeKlitat HaAliyah, "Ministry of Integration of Immigrants". Pnina Tamano-Shata, who was also the first Ethiopian Jew to serve as a minister in the Israeli government, was given the title of Minister of Immigrant Absorption when she was sworn in on 17 May 2020
In 2019 a Times of Israel investigation found that all of the success stories on the ministry's Twitter page were invented, except for one person who was not an immigrant. The ministry acknowledged the fabrication and removed them all.
List of ministers The minister is a minor portfolio in the Israeli cabinet. There is also occasionally a deputy minister.
#MinisterPartyGovernmentTerm startTerm endNotesMinister of Immigration1Haim-Moshe ShapiraUnited Religious FrontP, 1, 214 May 19488 October 1951Minister of Immigrant Absorption2Yigal AllonAlignment13, 141 July 196815 December 19693Shimon PeresAlignment1522 December 196927 July 19704Natan PeledAlignment1527 July 197010 March 1974Not an MK5Shlomo RosenAlignment16, 1710 March 197420 June 1977Not an MK6David LevyLikud1820 June 19775 August 19817Aharon AbuhatziraTami195 August 19814 May 19828Aharon UzanTami19, 204 May 198213 September 19849Ya'akov TzurAlignment21, 2213 September 198422 December 198810Yitzhak PeretzShas23, 2422 December 198813 July 199211Yair TzabanMeretz25, 2613 July 199218 June 199612Yuli-Yoel EdelsteinYisrael BaAliyah2718 June 19966 July 199913Ehud BarakOne Israel286 July 19995 August 1999Serving Prime Minister14Yuli TamirOne Israel285 August 19997 March 200115Ariel SharonLikud297 March 200128 February 2003Serving Prime Minister16Tzipi LivniLikudKadima3028 February 20034 May 200617Ze'ev BoimKadima314 May 20064 July 200718Yaakov EdriKadima314 July 200714 July 200819Eli AflaloKadima3114 July 200831 March 200920Sofa LandverYisrael Beiteinu32, 3331 March 200910 May 201521Ze'ev ElkinLikud3414 May 201530 May 2016Minister of Aliyah and Integration22Sofa LandverYisrael Beiteinu3430 May 201618 November 2018Minister of Immigration and Absorption23Benjamin NetanyahuLikud3418 November 201824 December 2018Serving Prime Minister24Yariv LevinLikud3424 December 20189 January 2019Acting25Yoav GallantLikud349 January 201917 May 202026Pnina Tamano-ShataBlue and White35, 36 17 May 202029 December 202227Ofir SoferReligious Zionist3729 December 2022
Deputy ministers #MinisterPartyGovernmentTerm startTerm end1Aryeh EliavAlignment13, 1412 August 196815 December 19692Shlomo RosenAlignment1520 November 197210 March 19743Aharon UzanTami1911 August 19814 May 19824Marina SolodkinYisrael BaAliyah285 August 199911 July 20005Yuli-Yoel EdelsteinYisrael BaAliyah297 March 200128 February 2003–Marina SolodkinKadima3030 March 20054 May 2006
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