Third government of Israel

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Cabinet ministers leaving Prime Minister's office after the first session of Israel's 3rd Government

The third government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 8 October 1951, more than two months after the elections. His Mapai party formed a coalition with Mizrachi, Hapoel HaMizrachi, Agudat Yisrael, Poalei Agudat Yisrael and the three Israeli Arab parties, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development. There were 15 ministers.

Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael left the coalition on 23 September 1952 (though Kalman Kahana remained a deputy minister) shortly after disagreements over the conscription of women into the IDF. This left the government with only 60 of the 120 seats in the Knesset.

The government resigned on 19 December 1952 due to a dispute with the religious parties over religious education.

Two ministers, Eliezer Kaplan and David-Zvi Pinkas died in office.

Third government of Israel
Portfolio	Minister	Party
Prime Minister Minister of Defense	David Ben-Gurion	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
Deputy Prime Minister	Eliezer Kaplan (8 October 1951 – 13 July 1952)Template:Efn	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
Minister of Agriculture	Levi Eshkol (8 October 1951 – 25 June 1952)	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
	Peretz Naftali (25 June – 24 December 1952)	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
Minister of Education and Culture	Ben-Zion Dinor	style="background:Template:Party color|	Not an MKTemplate:Efn
Minister of Finance	Eliezer Kaplan (8 October 1951 – 25 June 1952)	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
	Levi Eshkol (25 June – 24 December 1952)	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Moshe Sharett	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
Minister of Health	Yosef Burg	style="background:Template:Party color|	Hapoel HaMizrachi
Minister of Internal Affairs Minister of Religions	Haim-Moshe Shapira	style="background:Template:Party color|	Hapoel HaMizrachi
Minister of Justice	Dov Yosef (8 October 1951 – 25 June 1952)	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
	Haim Cohn (25 June – 24 December 1952)	bgcolor=Template:Party color|	Not an MK
Minister of Labour	Golda Meir	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
Minister of Police	Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
Minister of Postal Services	Mordechai Nurock	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mizrachi
Minister of Trade and Industry	Dov Yosef	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
Minister of Transportation	David-Zvi Pinkas (8 October 1951 – 14 August 1952)Template:Efn	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mizrachi
	David Ben-Gurion (14 August – 24 December 1952)	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
Minister of Welfare	Yitzhak Meir Levin (8 October 1951 – 18 September 1952)	style="background:Template:Party color|	Agudat Yisrael
Minister without Portfolio	Pinhas Lavon (17 August - 24 December 1952)	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
	Peretz Naftali (8 October 1951 – 25 June 1952)	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
	Eliezer Kaplan (25 June - 13 July 1952)	style="background:Template:Party color" |	Mapai
Deputy Minister of Agriculture	Yosef Efrati	style="background:Template:Party color|	Mapai
Deputy Minister of Education and Culture	Kalman Kahana	style="background:Template:Party color|	Poalei Agudat Yisrael

External links

• Third Government of Israel Knesset website