Ministers and Senior Officials of the 31st Government of Israel
4 May 2006
President
Moshe Katsav - President of the State of Israel
Cabinet Ministers
Ehud Olmert - Prime Minister, Minister of Social Welfare
Shimon Peres - Vice Premier, Minister for the Development of the Negev and Galillee
Tzipi Livni - Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Amir Peretz - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense
Eliyahu Yishai - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor
Shaul Mofaz - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Transportation and Road Safety
Ariel Atias - Minister of Communications
Ronnie Bar-On - Minister of the Interior
Yacov Ben Yizri - Minister of Health
Benjamin Ben-Eliezer - Minister of National Infrastructures
Ze'ev Boim - Minister of Immigrant Absorption
Eitan Cabel - Minister without Portfolio (responsible for the Israel Broadcasting Authority)
Yitzhak Cohen - Minister without Portfolio (responsible for the religious councils)
Abraham Dicter - Minister of Public Security
Ya'akov Edery - Minister without Portfolio (responsible for liaison with the Knesset)
Rafi Eitan - Minister of Pensioner Affairs
Gideon Ezra - Minister of the Environment
Isaac Herzog - Minister of Tourism
Abraham Hirchson - Minister of Finance
Meshulam Nahari - Minister without Portfolio
Ophir Pines-Paz - Minister of Science and Technology
Haim Ramon - Minister of Justice
Meir Sheetrit - Minister of Housing and Construction
Shalom Simhon - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Yuli Tamir - Minister of Education, Culture and Sport
Senior Government Officials
Dalia Itzik, MK - Speaker of the Knesset
Aharon Barak - President of the Supreme Court
Micha Lindenstrauss - State Comptroller and Ombudsman
Stanley Fischer - Governor of the Bank of Israel
Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz - IDF Chief of General Staff
Moshe Karadi - Commissioner of Police
Menachem Mazuz - Attorney General
Rabbi Shlomo Amar - Sephardi Chief Rabbi
Rabbi Yona Metzger - Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi
