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{{Short description|Portfolio in the Israeli cabinet between 1953 and 1974}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox government agency
|nativename = משרד הפיתוח
|name = Ministry of Development
|formed = 1953
|dissolved = 1974
|image=Emblem of Israel.svg
|image_caption=[[Emblem of Israel]]
|image_size=130px
|jurisdiction = [[Government of Israel]]
}}
'''Minister of Development''' ({{langx|he|שר הפיתוח}}, ''Sar HaPituah'') was a portfolio in the [[cabinet of Israel|Israeli cabinet]] between 1953 and 1974. The ministry was responsible for government-owned mineral extraction companies and the country's geology institute. The department also set up both the quarry rehabilitation fund and the [[Dead Sea Works]].

The post was scrapped in 1974, and succeeded three years later by the [[Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources|Energy and Infrastructure portfolio]]. Since 2005 there has also been a [[Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee|Minister for the Development of the Negev and Galilee]].

==List of ministers==
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
!#
!Minister
!Party
!Government
!Term start
!Term end
!Notes
|-
|1||align=left|[[Dov Yosef]]||align=left|[[Mapai]]||[[Fourth government of Israel|4]], [[Fifth government of Israel|5]], [[Sixth government of Israel|6]]||15 June 1953||3 November 1955||
|-
|2||align=left|[[Mordechai Bentov]]||align=left|[[Mapam]]||[[Seventh government of Israel|7]], [[Eighth government of Israel|8]], [[Ninth government of Israel|9]]||3 November 1955||2 November 1961||
|-
|3||align=left|[[Giora Yoseftal]]||align=left|[[Mapai]]||[[Tenth government of Israel|10]]||2 November 1961||23 August 1962||Died in office
|-
|4||align=left|[[Yosef Almogi]]||align=left|[[Mapai]]||[[Tenth government of Israel|10]], [[Eleventh government of Israel|11]], [[Twelfth government of Israel|12]]||30 October 1962||25 May 1965||
|-
|5||align=left|[[Haim Yosef Zadok]]||align=left|[[Mapai]]||[[Twelfth government of Israel|12]]||31 May 1965||12 January 1966||
|-
|6||align=left|[[Moshe Kol]]||align=left|Not an MK||[[Thirteenth government of Israel|13]], [[Fourteenth government of Israel|14]]||12 January 1966||15 December 1969||Member of the Independent Liberals, resigned from the Knesset when appointed minister in line with party policy
|-
|7||align=left|[[Haim Landau]]||align=left|[[Gahal]]||[[Fifteenth government of Israel|15]]||15 December 1969||6 August 1970||
|-
|8||align=left|[[Haim Gvati]]||align=left|[[Alignment (Israel)|Alignment]]||[[Fifteenth government of Israel|15]]||1 September 1970||10 March 1974||
|-
|9||align=left|[[Haim Bar-Lev]]||align=left|Not an MK||[[Sixteenth government of Israel|16]]||10 March 1974||3 June 1974||Later elected to the next Knesset as a member of the Alignment.
|}

===Deputy ministers===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
!#
!Minister
!Party
!Government
!Term start
!Term end
|-
|1||align=left|[[Yehuda Sha'ari]]||align=left|[[Independent Liberals (Israel)|Independent Liberals]]||[[Thirteenth government of Israel|13]], [[Fourteenth government of Israel|14]]||{{start date|df=yes|1966|1|17}}||{{end date|df=yes|1969|12|15}}
|}

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{{Israeli ministers}}
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[[Category:Lists of government ministers of Israel]]


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