The Shadow Cabinet of Tommy Lapid was created on 3 January 2005Minutes of the Knesset: 203rd Meeting of the 16th KnessetMeet Tommy's Shadow Government: Ynet following Shinui's withdrawal from the government in December 2004. Although the idea was considered before,Peres will not assemble a shadow cabinet: Ma'ariv, 24 March 1980 especially in the 1980s when Likud and the Israeli Labor Party formed large blocs in the Knesset, this was the first time a Shadow Cabinet was formed in Israel.
Shadow cabinet list Portfolio Shadow MinisterPartyShadow Prime MinisterTommy LapidShinuiShadow Vice Prime MinisterTommy LapidShinuiShadow Acting Prime MinisterAvraham PorazShinuiShadow Minister of AgricultureReshef HenShinuiShadow Minister of CommunicationsAvraham PorazShinuiShadow Minister of DefenseIlan ShalgiShinuiShadow Minister of Education, Culture and SportMeli Polishook-BlochShinuiShadow Minister of the EnvironmentIlan ShalgiShinuiShadow Minister of FinanceAvraham PorazShinuiShadow Minister of Foreign AffairsEliezer SandbergShinuiShadow Minister of HealthEhud RassabiShinuiShadow Minister of Housing and ConstructionIlan LeibovitchShinuiShadow Minister of Immigrant AbsorptionVictor BrailovskyShinuiShadow Minister of Industry, Trade and LabourIlan LeibovitchShinuiShadow Minister of Internal AffairsRoni BrizonShinuiShadow Minister of Internal Securitynot appointedShadow Minister of JusticeEti LivniShinuiShadow Minister of National InfrastructureHemi DoronShinuiShadow Minister of Religious AffairsRoni BrizonShinuiShadow Minister of Science and TechnologyMeli Polishook-BlochShinuiShadow Minister of TourismErela GolanShinuiShadow Minister of TransportationIlan LeibovitchShinuiShadow Minister of Welfare and Social ServicesYigal YasinovShinui
Personnel differences The following members of the shadow cabinet were ex-ministers in the Sharon government on the day of Shinui's withdrawal: Tommy Lapid, who held the Justice portfolio in the Sharon government, held no shadow portfolio apart from that of Prime Minister (shadowing Sharon) and Vice Prime Minister (shadowing Shimon Peres). Avraham Poraz, who held the Interior portfolio in the Sharon government, was moved to shadow the communications and finance portfolios. Ilan Shalgi, who held the environmental protection portfolio in the Sharon government, retained it in the shadow cabinet, also gaining the defense portfolio. Eliezer Sandberg, who held the national infrastructure portfolio in the Sharon government, was moved to shadow the foreign affairs portfolio. Victor Brailovsky, who held the culture portfolio in the Sharon government, was moved to shadow the immigrant absorption portfolio.
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