Fourteenth government of Israel

The fourteenth government of Israel was formed by Golda Meir on 17 March 1969, following the death of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol on 26 February. She kept the same national unity government coalition, including the newly formed Alignment alliance of the Labor Party and Mapam, as well as Gahal, the National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals, Poalei Agudat Yisrael, Progress and Development, Cooperation and Brotherhood. The only change to the cabinet was the scrapping of the Minister of Information post, with the previous post-holder Yisrael Galili becoming a Minister without Portfolio instead.

First Meir Cabinet
14th Cabinet of Israel
Date formed	17 March 1969 (1969-03-17)
Date dissolved	15 December 1969 (1969-12-15)
People and organisations
Head of state	Zalman Shazar
Head of government	Golda Meir
Member parties	Alignment National Religious Party Gahal Independent Liberals Poalei Agudat Yisrael Progress and Development Cooperation and Brotherhood
Status in legislature	Coalition
Opposition leader	Yitzhak-Meir Levin
History
Legislature term	6th Knesset
Predecessor	13th Cabinet of Israel
Successor	15th Cabinet of Israel

The government served until the formation of the fifteenth government by Meir on 15 December 1969, following the October elections.

Israeli government formation, March 1969

17 March 1969

Nominee Golda Meir Yitzhak-Meir Levin Party Alignment Agudat Yisrael Electoral vote 93 27 Percentage 77.5% 22.5%

Prime Minister before election Levi Eshkol Alignment Elected Prime Minister Golda Meir Alignment

Cabinet members

Position	Person	Party
Prime Minister	Golda Meir	Alignment
Deputy Prime Minister	Yigal Allon	Alignment
Minister of Agriculture	Haim Gvati	Not an MK 1
Minister of Defense	Moshe Dayan	Alignment
Minister of Development	Moshe Kol	Not an MK 2
Minister of Education and Culture	Zalman Aran	Alignment
Minister of Finance	Ze'ev Sherf	Alignment
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Abba Eban	Alignment
Minister of Health	Yisrael Barzilai	Not an MK 3
Minister of Housing	Mordechai Bentov	Not an MK 3
Minister of Immigrant Absorption	Yigal Allon	Alignment
Minister of Internal Affairs	Haim-Moshe Shapira	National Religious Party
Minister of Justice	Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira	Not an MK 4
Minister of Labour	Yosef Almogi	Alignment
Minister of Police	Eliyahu Sasson	Alignment
Minister of Postal Services	Yisrael Yeshayahu	Alignment
Minister of Religions	Zerach Warhaftig	National Religious Party
Minister of Tourism	Moshe Kol	Not an MK 2
Minister of Trade and Industry	Ze'ev Sherf	Alignment
Minister of Transportation	Moshe Carmel	Not an MK 1
Minister of Welfare	Yosef Burg	National Religious Party
Minister without Portfolio	Yisrael Galili	Alignment
	Menachem Begin	Gahal
	Yosef Sapir	Gahal
	Pinchas Sapir	Alignment
Deputy Minister of Agriculture	Aharon Uzan (until 17 November 1969)	Alignment
Deputy Minister of Development	Yehuda Sha'ari	Independent Liberals
Deputy Minister of Education and Culture	Kalman Kahana	Poalei Agudat Yisrael
	Aharon Yadlin (until 17 November 1969)	Alignment
Deputy Minister of Finance	Zvi Dinstein	Alignment
Deputy Minister of Immigrant Absorption	Aryeh Eliav	Alignment
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs	Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir	National Religious Party
Deputy Minister of Religions	Binyamin Shahor	National Religious Party

¹ Gvati and Carmel had been elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list, but resigned their seats in 1966.

² Kol had been elected to the Knesset on the Independent Liberals list, but had resigned after being appointed to the cabinet.

³ Although Barzilai and Bentov were not Knesset members, both were members of Mapam.

⁴ Although Shapira was not an MK at the time, he had previously been an MK for Mapai, and was elected to the next Knesset as a member of the Alignment.

External links

• Sixth Knesset: Government 14 Knesset website