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The other two who have served as acting prime minister have gone on to become the prime minister. The incumbent prime minister of Israel is Benjamin Netanyahu, who assumed office on 29 December 2022. He also held the office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021.
David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), founder of Israel, first Prime Minister of Israel 1948–1953, 1954–1963; Mordechai Ben-Porat, former minister without portfolio; Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel; Shlomo Benizri, former minister; Naftali Bennett, minister of education, leader of The Jewish Home, thirteenth Prime Minister of Israel ...
In 1948, Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein and a number of other Jewish public figures signed an open letter which compared a Jewish political party to Nazism, writing that, "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the 'Freedom Party' (Tnuat Haherut), a political party ...
The Israel Defense Forces is the military branch of Israel that was established in 1948. Both men and women are expected to serve in the military for at least two years and remain in the reserves ...
Eleven people have served as President of Israel, four of whom have served two consecutive terms. Another, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, was elected to three consecutive terms, although he died in office soon after the beginning of his third term. Isaac Herzog has been serving as the 11th President of Israel since 2021.
1967 photograph of Netanyahu by the Israel Defense Forces. Netanyahu was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv. [3] [4] His mother, Tzila Segal (1912–2000), was born in Petah Tikva in the Ottoman Empire's Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, and his father, Warsaw-born Benzion Netanyahu (né Mileikowsky; 1910–2012), was a historian specializing in the Jewish Golden age of Spain.
Amir Avivi, president and founder of Israel Defense and Security Forum, a hawkish group of former military officers, said the generals are obsessed with Netanyahu's downfall and misusing their ...
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has a poster hanging on a wall of his office in Tel Aviv, in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. At the bottom are Hamas' junior field commanders.