The Ministry of Communications (, Misrad HaTikshoret) is the Israeli government agency responsible for regulating and overseeing communications infrastructure and services. Its primary role is to manage telecommunications, broadcasting, and postal services. The ministry was established in 1952 and was known as the Ministry of Postal Services (, Misrad HaDo'ar) until 1970.
List of ministers The Communications Minister of Israel (, Sar HaTikshoret) is the political head of the ministry. There is occasionally a Deputy Minister.
#MinisterPartyGovernmentsTerm startTerm endNotesMinister of Postal Services1Mordechai NurockMizrachi32Yosef BurgHapoel HaMizrachi4, 5, 6, 7, 83Yisrael BarzilaiMapam84Binyamin MintzPoalei Agudat Yisrael9Died in office5Eliyahu SassonAlignmentNot an MK until after the 1965 elections6Yisrael YeshayahuAlignment13, 147Elimelekh RimaltGahal15Minister of Communications8Shimon PeresAlignment159Aharon UzanNot an MK1610Yitzhak RabinAlignment17–Aharon UzanNot an MK1711Menachem BeginLikud1812Meir AmitDash1813Yitzhak Moda'iLikud1814Yoram AridorLikud1815Mordechai TziporiLikud19, 2016Amnon RubinsteinShinui21, 2217Gad YaacobiAlignment22, 2318Rafael PinhasiShas2419Moshe ShahalLabor Party2520Shulamit AloniMeretz25, 2621Limor LivnatLikud2722One Israel2823Reuven RivlinLikud2924Ariel SharonLikud3025Ehud OlmertLikud3026Dalia ItzikLabor Party3027Avraham HirschsonKadima3028Ariel AtiasShas3129Moshe KahlonLikud3231 March 200918 March 201330Gilad ErdanLikud3318 March 20135 November 201431Benjamin NetanyahuLikud33, 345 November 201421 February 2017Also serving prime minister32Tzachi HanegbiLikud3421 February 201729 May 2017Acting Minister33Ayoob KaraLikud3434Dudi AmsalemLikud3435Yoaz HendelDerekh Eretz35 36Eitan GinzburgBlue and White35 37Yoaz HendelNew Hope36 38Shlomo KarhiLikud37
Deputy ministers #MinisterPartyGovernmentsTerm startTerm end1Jabr MuadiProgress and Development, Alignment15, 16, 172Eliyahu MoyalAlignment17 3Efraim GurAlignment24 4Yitzhak VakninShas28
External links All Ministers in the Ministry of Communications Knesset website Israel Ministry of Communications site in English