The Ministry of Construction and Housing (, Misrad HaBinui VeHaShikun) is a portfolio in the Israeli cabinet. The ministry was created in 1961. Until 1977 and for a period from November 2014הדרך לדירה עוד לא התקצרה, שם המשרד כן Calcalist, 8 November 2014 till August 2015 it was known as the Ministry of Construction, and in 1977–2014 and from August 2015 as the Ministry of Construction and Housing (, Misrad HaBinui VeHaShikun). Construction was also previously part of the Labour and Construction ministry during the provisional government between 1948 and 1949.
There has been a Deputy Minister on several occasions.
The Ministry, through the Israel Land Authority, is the legal owner of the majority of land in Israel.
List of ministers #MinisterPartyGovernmentsTerm startTerm endNotesMinister of Housing1Giora YoseftalMapai102 November 1961 23 August 1962Died in office2Yosef AlmogiMapai10, 11, 1230 October 1962 23 May 19653Levi EshkolMapai1231 May 196512 January 1966Serving Prime Minister4Mordechai BentovNot an MK13, 1412 January 1966 15 December 1969Member of Mapam5Ze'ev SherfAlignment1515 December 1969 10 March 19746Yehoshua RabinovitzNot an MK1610 March 1974 3 June 1974Member of the Alignment7Avraham OferAlignment173 June 1974 3 January 1977Died in office8Shlomo RosenNot an MK1716 January 1977 20 June 1977Member of MapamMinister of Housing and Construction9Gideon PattLikud1820 June 1977 15 January 197910David LevyLikud18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 2315 January 1979 11 June 199011Ariel SharonLikud2411 June 199013 July 199212Binyamin Ben-EliezerLabor Party25, 2613 July 199218 June 1996Minister of Housing13Benjamin NetanyahuLikud2718 June 1996 6 July 1999Serving Prime MinisterMinister of Housing and Construction14Yitzhak LevyNational Religious Party286 July 199912 July 2000–Binyamin Ben-EliezerOne Israel2811 October 20007 March 200115Natan SharanskyYisrael BaAliyah297 March 200128 February 200316Effi EitamNational Religious Party303 March 200310 June 200417Tzipi LivniLikud304 July 200410 January 2005Acting minister until 31 August 200418Isaac HerzogLabor Party3010 January 200523 November 200519Ze'ev BoimKadima3018 January 20064 May 200620Meir SheetritKadima314 May 20064 July 2007–Ze'ev BoimKadima314 July 200731 March 200921Ariel AtiasShas3231 March 200918 March 2013Minister of Construction22Uri ArielThe Jewish Home3318 March 201314 May 201523Yoav GallantKulanu3414 May 20152 January 201924Yifat Shasha-BitonKulanu349 January 201917 May 2020 25Yaakov LitzmanUnited Torah Judaism3517 May 2020 13 September 2020 26Yitzhak CohenShas3514 October 202015 November 2020–Yaakov LitzmanUnited Torah Judaism3518 November 202013 June 202127Ze'ev ElkinNew Hope3613 June 202129 December 202228Yitzhak GoldknopfUnited Torah Judaism3729 December 202215 June 202529Haim KatzLikud3715 June 2025
Deputy ministers #MinisterPartyGovernmentsTerm startTerm end1Moshe KatsavLikud2010 October 198313 September 19842Avraham RavitzDegel HaTorah2425 June 199013 July 19923Aryeh GamlielShas2529 July 19929 September 19934Ran CohenMeretz254 August 199231 December 19925Eli Ben-MenachemLabor Party25, 268 April 199318 June 19966Alex GoldfarbYiud, Atid25, 262 January 199518 June 19967Meir PorushUnited Torah Judaism2724 June 19966 July 1999–Meir PorushUnited Torah Judaism294 June 200128 February 2003–Eli Ben-MenachemLabor Party3011 January 200523 November 20058Jackie LevyLikud3414 June 201518 November 2018
See also Housing in Israel Architecture of Israel
References
External links Ministry of Construction and Housing All Ministers in the Ministry of Housing and Construction Knesset website