The new government is expected to have 22 ministers, including Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu. Here are the agreed-upon portfolios.
Likud Beytenu Binyamin Netanyahu – prime minister and temporary
foreign minister
Moshe Ya’alon – defense minister
Gideon Sa’ar – interior
minister
Yair Shamir – agriculture minister
Yitzhak Aharonovitch – public
security minister
Sofa Landver – immigration absorption minister
Uzi Landau –
tourism minister
Israel Katz – transportation minister
Gilad Erdan, Silvan
Shalom, Yuval Steinitz and Limor Livnat are expected to divide the Ministries of
Communications, Infrastructure, Strategic Affairs and Home Front Defense
Expected deputy ministers: deputy education minister, deputy health minister
Yuli Edelstein – Knesset speaker
Avigdor Liberman – Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee chair man, foreign minister
if exonerated in corruption trial Tzachi Hanegbi - coalition chairman
Yesh Atid Yair Lapid – finance minister
Shai
Piron – education minister
Meir Cohen – welfare and social services minister
Yael German – health minister
Yaakov Peri – science minister
Ofer Shelah –
deputy defense minister
Bayit Yehudi Naftali Bennett – economics and trade
minister (formerly Industry, trade and labor), with responsibility for the Religious Services Ministry and the Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Ministry
Uri
Ariel – construction and housing, including the Israel Lands Authority
Uri
Orbach – pensioners affairs
Eliahu Ben-Dahan – deputy religious services
minister, with expanded responsibilities, including conversion, the Chief
Rabbinate and yeshivas
Nissan Slomiansky and Ayelet Shaked – rotation for head
of the Knesset Finance Committee
Hatnua Tzipi Livni – justice minister
Amir
Peretz – environmental protection minister