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The newest ministers

- • Jerusalem Post Staff

Likud

• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: The nation’s longest serving prime minister, first elected to Knesset in 1988, has served as foreign minister and finance minister

• Finance Minister Israel Katz: Served as transporta­tion minister for a decade and foreign minister for a year

• Health Minister Yuli Edelstein: Former minister of immigrant absorption, public diplomacy and Diaspora affairs who also served as Knesset speaker for seven years

• Education Minister: Not appointed yet

• Energy Minister: Not appointed yet

• Internal Security Minister Amir Ohana: Served as justice minister, considered close to Netanyahu and his family

• Transporta­tion Minister Miri Regev: Served as IDF spokeswoma­n and minister of culture and sports, considered close to Netanyahu and his wife, Sara

• Environmen­tal Protection Minister: Not appointed yet

• Intelligen­ce Services Minister Eli Cohen: Served as economy minister and MK in Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu

• Regional Cooperatio­n Minister Ophir Akunis: Served as science and technology minister and social welfare minister, former Netanyahu aide

• Ministeria­l Liaison to

the Knesset David Amsalem: Served as communicat­ions minister and coalition chairman and member of Jerusalem city council

• Deputy Health Minister

Yoav Kisch: Former Air Force combat pilot who headed Knesset’s Land of Israel caucus

• Deputy Internal Security

Minister Gadi Yevarkan: Ethiopian immigrant activist who jumped ship from Blue and White ahead of the March election

• Knesset Social Welfare

Committee chairman Haim Katz: Former social welfare minister and union leader

• Knesset Corona Committee chairwoman Yifat Shasha Biton: A resident of Kiryat Shmona, she served as constructi­on minister and MK in Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu party

Blue and White

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