Prime Ministers

REFERENCE TABLE 2 · PRIME MINISTERS

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Prime ministers

Each prime minister, the date the term begins, and the date it ends.

TERM BEGINS PRIME MINISTER PARTY TERM ENDS NOTE

1948 May 14 David Ben-Gurion Mapai 1954 Jan Heads the provisional government, then the first elected government from Mar 8, 1949

1954 Jan 26 Moshe Sharett Mapai 1955 Nov 3

1955 Nov 3 David Ben-Gurion Mapai 1963 Jun Second term

1963 Jun 26 Levi Eshkol Mapai, then Alignment

1969 Feb Dies in office

1969 Mar 17 Golda Meir Alignment 1974 Jun 3 Yigal Allon is acting prime minister from Feb 26 to Mar 17

1974 Jun 3 Yitzhak Rabin Alignment 1977 Jun First term

1977 Jun 20 Menachem Begin Likud 1983 Oct Resigns in 1983

1983 Oct 10 Yitzhak Shamir Likud 1984 Sep First term

1984 Sep 13 Shimon Peres Alignment 1986 Oct Unity government rotation

1986 Oct 20 Yitzhak Shamir Likud 1992 Jul Second term

1992 Jul 13 Yitzhak Rabin Labor 1995 Nov 4 Assassinated on Nov 4, 1995

1995 Nov 4 Shimon Peres Labor 1996 Jun Second term

1996 Jun 18 Benjamin Netanyahu

Likud 1999 Jul 6 First term

1999 Jul 6 Ehud Barak One Israel 2001 Mar 7 Resigns after losing the special election

2001 Mar 7 Ariel Sharon Likud, then Kadima 2006 Apr Incapacitated by a stroke on Jan 4, 2006

2006 Apr 14 Ehud Olmert Kadima 2009 Mar Acting prime minister from Jan 4, 2006

2009 Mar 31 Benjamin Netanyahu

Likud 2021 Jun Second term, the longest unbroken run

2021 Jun 13 Naftali Bennett Yamina 2022 Jul 1 Rotation government with Yair Lapid

2022 Jul 1 Yair Lapid Yesh Atid 2022 Dec Caretaker after the Knesset dissolves

2022 Dec 29 Benjamin Netanyahu

Likud In office Third term

Interim and caretaker periods are shown in the notes.

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