The Ministry of Economy () is a ministry of the Israeli government that oversees commerce, industry and labor in Israel.
History The ministry was established in 1948 as the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. In 1977 the Tourism Ministry post was added to it, becoming the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism. However, the merger was reversed in 1981 and the office was renamed Ministry of Industry and Trade. Labor, which had been merged with the Welfare Ministry in the 1970s, was appended to the portfolio in 2003.
List of ministers #MinisterPartyGovernmentTerm startTerm endNotesMinister of Trade and Industry1Peretz BernsteinGeneral ZionistsP14 May 194810 March 19492Eliezer KaplanMapai110 March 19491 November 19503Ya'akov GeriNot an MK21 November 19508 October 19514Dov YosefMapai38 October 195124 December 1952–Peretz BernsteinGeneral Zionists4, 524 December 195229 June 19555Peretz NaftaliMapai629 June 19553 November 19556Pinchas SapirMapai3 November 195525 May 19657Haim Yosef ZadokMapai, Alignment12, 1325 May 196522 November 19668Ze'ev SherfAlignment13, 1422 November 196615 December 19699Yosef SapirGahal1515 December 19696 August 1970–Pinchas SapirAlignment151 September 19705 March 197210Haim Bar-LevNot an MK15, 16, 175 March 197220 June 1977Not an MK at the time of his appointment, but later elected to the Knesset on the Alignment listMinister of Industry, Trade and Tourism11Yigal HurvitzLikud1820 June 19771 October 197812Gideon PattLikud1815 January 19795 August 1981Minister of Industry and Trade–Gideon PattLikud19, 205 August 198113Ariel SharonLikud21, 22, 2320 February 199014Moshe NissimLikud23, 247 March 199013 July 199215Michael HarishLabor Party25, 2613 July 199218 June 199616Natan SharanskyYisrael BaAliyah2718 June 19966 July 199917Ran CohenMeretz286 July 199924 June 200018Ehud BarakOne Israel2824 September 20007 March 200119Dalia ItzikLabor Party297 March 20012 November 2002–Ariel SharonLikud292 November 200228 February 2003Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor20Ehud OlmertLikud, Kadima3028 February 20034 May 200621Eli YishaiShas314 May 200631 March 200922Labor Party3231 March 200917 January 201123Shalom SimhonIndependence3218 January 201122 January 2013Minister of the Economy24Naftali Bennett3323 January 201314 May 201525Aryeh DeriShas3414 May 20153 November 201526Benjamin NetanyahuLikud343 November 20151 August 201627Moshe KahlonKulanu341 August 201623 January 201728Eli CohenKulanu3423 January 201717 May 2020 29Amir PeretzLabor Party3517 May 202013 June 2021 30Orna BarbivaiYesh Atid3613 June 2021 29 December 202231Nir BarkatLikud3729 December 2022
Deputy ministers #MinisterPartyGovernmentTerm startTerm end1Zalman SuzayivGeneral Zionists4, 515 June 195329 June 19552Aryeh EliavAlignment1317 October 196622 November 1966–Aryeh EliavAlignment1328 November 196626 June 19673Yitzhak PeretzLikud1828 June 197715 January 1979 4Masha LubelskyLabor Party25, 264 August 199218 June 19965Eli Ben-MenachemLabor Party297 March 20012 November 2002 6Michael RatzonLikud305 March 200328 October 2004 7Eli AflaloKadima3030 March 20054 May 20068Orit NokedLabor Party3231 March 200918 January 20119Yair GolanMeretz3613 June 202129 December 2022
References
External links
Ministry website All Ministers in the Ministry of Trade and Industry Knesset website