Eleventh government of Israel congratulating Shazar 1964

The eleventh government of Israel was formed on 26 June 1963, midway through the fifth Knesset. It was the first government formed by

Levi Eshkol Levi Eshkol ( ;‎ 25 October 1895 – 26 February 1969), born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik (), was the prime minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. A founder of the Israeli Labor Party, he served in numerous seni ...

following the second resignation of

David Ben-Gurion David Ben-Gurion ( ; ; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary List of national founders, national founder and first Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency ...

. Eshkol kept the same coalition partners as previously, i.e.

Mapai Mapai (, an abbreviation for , ''Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael'', ) was a Labor Zionist and democratic socialist political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in January ...

, the

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and

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. There were few changes, with Eshkol replacing Ben-Gurion in the dual role of Prime Minister and Minister of Defense,

Pinhas Sapir Pinchas Sapir (; born Pinchas Kozlowski 15 October 1906 – 12 August 1975) was an Israeli politician during the first three decades following the country's founding. He held two important ministerial posts, Minister of Finance (1963–68 and 1 ...

replacing Eshkol as Minister of Finance, and

Abba Eban Abba Solomon Meir Eban (; ; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was a History of the Jews in South Africa, South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. D ...

replacing

Zalman Aran Zalman "Ziama" Aran (; 1 March 1899 – 6 September 1970) was a Zionist activist, educator and Israeli government minister. Biography Zalman Aharonowitz (later Aran) was born in Yuzovka in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire (no ...

as Education Minister, as well as becoming the country's second Deputy Prime Minister. Eshkol presented it as a "government of continuity".1963 timeline
Jewish Agency for Israel Deputy Ministers were appointed on 1 July. The government resigned following the resignation of Eshkol on 14 December 1964. Eshkol had quit over a dispute with Ben-Gurion concerning the

Lavon Affair The Lavon affair was a failed Israeli covert operation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of a false flag operation, a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to pla ...

, which Ben Gurion had demanded that the

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investigate. The twelfth government was formed a week later.

Cabinet members

¹ Although Gvati was not an MK at the time, he later entered the Knesset as a member of the

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, a merger or

and

. ² Although Yosef was not an MK at the time, he was a member of

. ³ Although Sasson was not an MK at the time, he was elected to the next Knesset as a member of the

, an alliance of Mapai and

References

External links

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