Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
State
of Israel/ Medina Yisrael/Isra’il
(Female suffrage 1948, although Jewish women wonted for the Assembly of the
Elected in 1920) Established as a state in 1948
Also
see Israel Heads,
Israel Parliament and Israel Parties
1949-56
Minister of Labour Golda Meïr
1949-52 Minister of Social Affairs
1956-64 Minister of Foreign Affairs
1969-74 Premier Minister
In 1948-49 Ambassador to USSR, 1964-68 Secretary General and 1969-74 Leader of
Labour. When she became Foreign Minister her surname was hebrewnized from
Meyerson to Meir. She was born in Russia as Golda Mabovic and later immigrated
to USA. Mother of 2, she lived (1898-1978).
1963-69 Cabinet Secretary
Yael Uzai
The Cabinet Secretary acts as Spokesperson
for the government and manages its weekly meetings. (b. 1920-).
1974
Minister without Portfolio for Human Rights Shulamit Aloni
1992-93 Minister of Education and Culture
1992-96 Member of The National Security Council
1993 Minister without Portfolio
1993-96 Minister of Communication, Science and Art
She founded and was Chairperson of Civil Rights Party/Ratz 1963-65 and 1973-95, Member of
the Knesset 1974-96. And she was Second in Cabinet 1995-96. Mother of 3 and (b. 1929-).
1981-84
Deputy Minister of Education and Culture Miriam Glasser-Tassa
Member of the Etzel underground movement. School principal for 25 years. MK 1981-88. Mother of three (b. 1929-).
1983-84
Minister without Portfolio Sara Doron
Chairperson of the Likud Knesset-Group ca. 1988-92, and former member of the
City Council of Tel Aviv. Founding member of the Liberal party. MK 1977-92. Mother of one. (b. 1922-).
1984-86
Deputy Minister of Health Shoshana Arbeli-Almoslino
1986-89 Minister of Health
Deputy Speaker of Knesset 1977-81. and 1989. Immigrated to Israel from Iraq in 1947. MK in 1965-92 and chaired numerous committees. (b. 1926-).
1990-92
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Golla Cohen
Also known as Geula, she was a
a prominent
member of the 1940s underground group Lehi,
Co-founder and since
1978 co-leader of the Tehiya Zionist Revival Movement, but
in 1992 she returned to the Likud Party. MK 1974-92. Her son Tzahi Hanegbi has been member
of various governments. (b. 1925-).
1992
Minister of Environment Ora Namir
1993-96 Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
Officer in Israel Defence Forces during the War of Independence, former
clerk of the Mapai Knesset Faction and later Chairperson of various Knesset-Committees in the period 1973-96, 1996-2000
Ambassador to China and Mongolia. Her late husband, Mordechai Namir was both Minister and
Mayor of Tel Aviv. (b. 1930-).
1992-96
Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Masha Lublesky
Former Secretary General of the Na’amat Movement. In 1996-99 advisor to the minister of Internal Security on violence against women. Mother of two. (b. 1936-).
1996-99
Minister of Communications and Minister for Women’s Rights Limor
Livnat
2001-06 Minister of Education
2002-06 Minister of Culture and Sports
2002-03 Minister of Science
Deputy Chairperson of the Likud World Movement. In 2001 she had widely been
expected to have been appointed Minister of
Internal Security. Candidate for the Chairmanship of the Party in 2005
after Ariel Sharon left to form Kadima. For the 2006-elections she is placed
10th on the party's electoral list as the highest ranking woman. Mother of 2. (b. 1950-).
1999-2001
Minister of Environment Dalia Itzik
2001-02 Minister of Trade and Industry
2005 Minister of Communication
2007 Acting President (25.01-15.07)
Former Deputy Mayor
of Jerusalem in charge of Education, Labour Member of the Knesset 1992-2005,
Minister of Environment 1999-2001, Minister of Trade and Industry 2001-02, Group
Chairperson of Labour 2003-05 and Acting Leader of the Oppostion in 2003. Minister of Communication in 2005,
and joined Kadima, a new party formed by Ariel Sharon in 2006 and Speaker of the Knesset from the same year.
She became Acting
President when the President Moshe Katsaw on his own request was temporary suspended
after the Attorney General announced that
he would charge the president with offences including rape, obstruction of justice and fraud, on 1. July he resigned and she continued in her role until his successor, Shimon Peres, took office. Mother
of 3. (b. 1952-).
1999-2001
Minister of Immigrant Absorption Prof. Yulli Tamir
2006- Minister of Education
2006-07 Acting Minister of Science, Technology, Culture and Sports (November-)
MK for Labour since 2003. Divorced and mother of 2. (b. 1954-).
Immigrated to Israel from Russia in 1991 and has been a member of the Knesset
since 1996 for the Russian Immigrant Party 1996-2005 until she joined Kadima. In
2006 Tzipi Livni assigned all the duties of the Ministry to her, when she was
appointed Foreign Minister. The desition by Prime Minister Olmert not to include
her - or another member of the Russian Immigrant Community - in the cabinet has
caused a grat uproar. Mother of 2. (b. 1952-).
1999-2001
Spokesperson of the Government Merav Parsi-Zaddok
2001
Minister of Regional Cooperation Tzipi Livni
2001-02 Minister without Portfolio in the Prime Minister's Office for Information
2002-03 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
2003-06 Minister of Immigrant Absorption
2004-05 Minister of Construction and Housing
2004-05 Acting Minister of Justice
2005-06 Minister of Justice (Until April)
2006- Minister of Foreign Affairs
2006- 1. Deputy Prime Minister
2006-07 Minister of Justice
MK for Likud 1999 until 2005 when she joined Kadima, a new party formed by Ariel
Sharon. Acting Prime Minister on various occasions whenever the chief of government is out of the country.
Her father was a Likud MK for many years. Mother of 2. (b. 1958-)
2001-02
Deputy Minister of Defence Dalia Rabin-Pelossof
MK of the Center Party and later joined Labour, 1999-2003. She was daughter of the murdered Premier-Minister Izak Rabin. Divorced and mother of 2. (b. 1950-).
2001-02
Deputy Minister of National Infrastructure Naomi Blumenthal
MK for Likud 1992-2006 and chair of various committees. Dismissed in 2002 because of financial irregularities in her primary elections campaign. Mother of 3. (b. 1943-).
2002
Deputy Minister of Transportation Sofa Landver
An immigrant from Russia, she was a Labour MK 1996-2003 and MK for Israel Beytenu Party since 2006. Deputy Speaker of the Knesset 1999-2002. Mother of one. (b. 1949-).
2005 Deputy Minister
in the Office of the 1st Vice-Prime Minister Orit Noked
Only two of Labour's 10 positions were
filled by women. The 1st Vice-Premier was Shimon Peres. Served as attorney general of the Kibbutz movement and is MK since 2002. Mother of 3. (b. 1952-).
2005-06 Deputy Minister of
Agriculture and Rural Development Gila Gamliel
Likud MK from 2003 and Chair of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women.
(b. 1974-).
No Deputy Ministers 2006-07
2007 Designate Minister of Tourism Esterina Tartman
Major, Group Chairperson
of the rightwing Israel Beitenu Party in the Knesset 2006-07. She
withdrew her nomination to the
Cabinet after key parts of her resume turned out to be false Divorced and
mother of 4. (b. 1957-).