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Ministry Of Intelligence (Israel)
The Ministry of Intelligence (, ''Misrad HaModi'in'') was a government ministry in Israel. It oversaw policies related to the operation of the intelligence organizations, the Mossad and the Shabak (Israel Security Agency), in support of the national security of the State of Israel, in coordination with and under the guidance of the prime minister. History The Ministry of Intelligence was established in 2009 to coordinate between the various agencies in the Israeli Intelligence Community, including the Mossad, Shin Bet, Aman, and the Israeli Foreign Ministry's intelligence gathering operations. The Ministry of Intelligence was based on the model of the United States' Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It is charged with maintaining contact with the intelligence organizations and ensuring that they execute the directives of the political echelon; examining the structure of the intelligence organizations and initiating and leading plans for their improvement; form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emblem Of Israel
The emblem of Israel () depicts a temple menorah surrounded by an olive branch on each side, with the word ''Israel'' written in Hebrew language, Hebrew () below it. While it is commonly displayed in Tekhelet in Judaism, blue and white, the emblem has appeared in alternative colour combinations depending on the use, such as on the President of Israel, Israeli Presidential Standard (see below). History The State of Israel adopted the symbol after a design competition held in 1948. The design is based on the winning entry submitted by Gabriel and Maxim Shamir's proposal, with elements taken from other submissions, including entries from Oteh Walisch, W. Struski, Itamar David, Yerachmiel Schechter, and Willie Wind, whose entry won the first design competition. The emblem was officially adopted on February 10, 1949. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Members Of The Twenty-fifth Knesset
The members of the 25th Knesset were 2022 Israeli legislative election, elected on 1 November 2022 and sworn in on 15 November. Composition One Druze in Israel, Druze lawmaker, 29 women, 23 new Lists_of_Knesset_members, MKs and three openly gay MKs were elected to the 25th Knesset. The number of Arab citizens of Israel, Arab MKs was the lowest in two decades with 10 MKs. On 30 June 2024, the Israeli Labor Party announced plans to merge with Meretz to become The Democrats (Israel), The Democrats, with Labor MKs expected to become MKs for the new party; the merger was approved on 12 July. However, Likud MK and chair of the Knesset House Committee Ofir Katz denied the February 2025 request by Labor chairwoman Efrat Rayten to change the name of the Knesset faction to The Democrats and she withdrew it. On 11 November 2024 Hadash-Ta'al MK Ofer Cassif was suspended from the Knesset for six months for supporting South Africa's genocide case against Israel. Members of the Knesset R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirty-fifth Government Of Israel
The thirty-fifth government of Israel (), or the Netanyahu–Gantz government, was the government of Israel which was sworn in on 17 May 2020 and dissolved on 13 June 2021. It was originally expected to be established following the April 2019 election, but after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to form a government, the Knesset dissolved itself, thereby setting up a snap election that took place on 17 September 2019. Following the second election, no one was able to form a government again, and a third election took place on 2 March 2020. An agreement was ultimately reached on 20 April 2020, between Netanyahu and MK Benny Gantz on the formation of a national unity government. The Knesset, and with it the current government's legislative operations, was again dissolved on 23 December 2020, resulting in the 2021 election. On 13 June 2021, in a 60–59 vote with 1 abstention, the Knesset voted to approve the thirty-sixth government of Israel led by Naftali Benne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Cohen (politician Born 1972)
Eli (Eliahu) Cohen (; born 3 October 1972) is an Israeli politician serving as the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure for the Likud party and a member of the Security Cabinet. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Economy and Industry, Minister of Intelligence, and Chair of the Reforms Committee. Cohen is a certified public accountant and has held senior positions in the private sector. Biography Eli Cohen was born and raised in Holon. During his military service in the Israeli Air Force, he rose to the rank of Major. While serving, he pursued and completed a bachelor's degree in accounting at Tel Aviv University, another bachelor's degree with honors in management and economics at the Open University, and a master's degree in business administration with a specialization in finance and accounting at Tel Aviv University. Later, Cohen lectured at Tel Aviv University in the fields of management, finance, and accounting. In 2000, after completing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirty-fourth Government Of Israel
The thirty-fourth government of Israel, also known as the Fourth Netanyahu Government, was the Cabinet of Israel, government of Israel, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu between 2015 and 2020. It was formed after the 2015 Israeli legislative election, March 2015 Knesset election. The coalition that made up the government, consisting of Likud, United Torah Judaism, Shas, Kulanu and the Jewish Home, was submitted to the President of Israel just before the deadline on 6 May 2015. Government ministers were introduced, approved by the Knesset and sworn in on 14 May. Deputy ministers were sworn in on 19 May. On 29 December 2018, the newly formed New Right (Israel), New Right party became a coalition partner, after splitting from the Jewish Home. Between them, the coalition parties held 61 of the 120 seats in the Knesset. The elections that led to the formation of the government were a result of events on 2 December 2014, when Netanyahu dismissed two of his ministers, whose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Katz
Israel Katz (; born 21 September 1955) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Likud currently serving as Ministry of Defense (Israel), Minister of Defense and a member of the Security Cabinet of Israel. Katz has been recognized for his role in modernizing Israel’s transportation infrastructure, including the expansion of highways, the development of high-speed rail, and reforms to Israel’s ports that increased competition and reduced shipping costs. Katz has previously served as Agriculture Minister of Israel, Minister of Agriculture, Transportation Minister of Israel, Minister of Transport, Ministry of Intelligence Services, Minister of Intelligence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel), Minister of Energy, Ministry of Finance (Israel), Minister of Finance, and twice as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Minister of Foreign Affairs. On 5 November 2024, it was announced that he would be nominated by Prime Minister Netanyahu as Defense Minister of Israel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirty-third Government Of Israel
The thirty-third government of Israel, also known as the third Netanyahu government, was formed after the January 2013 Knesset elections, took office on 18 March 2013 and served until 14 May 2015. The Prime Minister was Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud; the government was a coalition of Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu, Yesh Atid, the Jewish Home, and Hatnuah. Formation Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu, which had run on a common list in the elections, were the largest faction in the Knesset, with 31 seats, and formed the government. Hatnuah agreed to become part of the government in February. The final coalition agreement between Likud-Beteinu and the other parties was as signed on 15 March. The coalition parties held 68 of the 120 seats in the Knesset. The parties agreed to a deal that would raise the voting threshold in future elections from 2 to 4 percent; had this restriction been effect in the 2013 elections, Kadima and the three Arab parties would have failed to qualify for seats in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuval Steinitz
Yuval Steinitz (; born 10 April 1958) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Likud party. He also held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Finance, Minister of Intelligence, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Minister of Energy. Steinitz holds a PhD in philosophy and has been a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa. His book " Invitation to Philosophy", was published in 74 editions and printings and considered the best-selling philosophy book in the history of the State of Israel. Steinitz currently serves as chairman of the board of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Biography Born and raised in Moshav Ramot HaShavim, 30 km north of Tel Aviv, he is the eldest of four children. His father, Dan, is an engineer and his late mother, Mina, was a teacher of literature and philosophy. Steinitz served in the IDF as a soldier in Golani infantry Brigade (1977–1980). He sustained a leg injury during a battle with the Syrian army wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirty-second Government Of Israel
The Thirty-second government of Israel, also known as the Second Netanyahu Government, was the largest cabinet in the country's history, in terms of the number of ministers: initially containing 30 ministers and nine deputy ministers, it later added another deputy prime minister as of May 2012 until he resigned in July 2012. Formation Following the 2009 Israeli legislative election, 2009 Knesset elections, the new government was formed on 31 March 2009. It consisted of a coalition of Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu, Shas, the Israeli Labor Party, Labor and the Jewish Home. The parties formed a center-right coalition government. Changes since formation On 1 April 2009, United Torah Judaism joined as well. In January 2011, Labor Party leader Ehud Barak formed a breakaway party, Independence (Israeli political party), Independence, which enabled him to maintain his loyal Labor's MK faction within Netanyahu's government, and prevented the departure of Labor party as a whole from Netanyahu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Likud
Likud (, ), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement (), is a major Right-wing politics, right-wing, political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon in an alliance with several right-wing parties. Likud's landslide victory in the 1977 Israeli legislative election, 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had lost power. In addition, it was the first time in Israel that a right-wing party received the most votes. After ruling the country for most of the 1980s, the party lost the 1992 Israeli legislative election, Knesset election in 1992. Likud's candidate Benjamin Netanyahu won the vote for Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister in 1996 Israeli prime ministerial election, 1996 and was given the task of forming a government after the 1996 Israeli legislative election, 1996 elections following Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Yitzak Rabin's assassination. Netany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Meridor
Dan Meridor (; born 23 April 1947) is an Israeli politician and minister. A longtime member of the Likud party, in the late 1990s he became one of the founders of the Center Party. He rejoined Likud a decade later, and returned to the Knesset following the 2009 elections. Meridor served at various times as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy in the Israeli Cabinet. In 2014, Meridor succeeded Avi Primor as president of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, an institute of international affairs which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress. Biography Born in Jerusalem towards the end of the Mandate era, Meridor is the son of Eliyahu Meridor, a longtime political associate of Menachem Begin in the Irgun and Herut (which he represented in the Knesset), and Ra'anana Meridor, an associate professor of Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was drafted into the IDF in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ofir Akunis
Ofir Akunis (; born 28 May 1973) is an Israeli politician and diplomat. Since May 2024 he has been the Israeli Consul General in New York, his first diplomatic posting. As a politician, Akunis served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and was the Minister of Science and Technology from 2015 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2024. He previously held the posts of Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services in 2020 and Minister of Regional Cooperation in 2020-2021. Biography Early life Akunis was born in Tel Aviv. His grandfather was a Greek-Jew who immigrated to Israel from Saloniki in 1934 and was a member of the Likud Party himself. His mother immigrated to Israel from Poland in 1957. He attended the Herzliya Hebrew High School between 1987 and 1991 and served as youth correspondent for the weekly " Ma'ariv LaNoar" magazine. Akunis' mandatory military service was spent as a correspondent for the Chief Education Officer of the Education and Youth Corps. After his army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
