The Provisional Government

14/05/1948

- 08/03/1949

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion

Photo by GPO

Pictured: Left to Right
Eliezer Kaplan – Minister of Finance
Yitzhak Greenboim – Minister of Interior
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit – Minister of Police and Minorities
David Ben Gurion – Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
Zeev Sherf – Government Secretary (probably)
Pinhas Rosen – Minister of Justice
Haim Moshe Shapira – Minister of Immigration and Health
Yitzhak Meir Levin – Minister of Welfare
Yehuda Leib Maimon – Minister of Religions and War Victims
Peretz Bernstein – Minister of Trade, Industry and Supply

Not Shown:

Mordechai Bentov – Minister of Labor and Minister of Housing and Construction
Aharon Zisling – Minister of Agriculture
David Remez – Minister of Transportation
Moshe Sharett – Minister of Foreign Affairs

Comment:

On 16.2.49, Prof. Haim Weizmann was elected President of the State. The Provisional Government tendered its resignation to the President

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