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The Thirteenth Government
The Thirteenth Government 12.1.66-17.3.69 – Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
 The 13th Government
Enlarged Picture

Standing right to left:
Haim Zadok – Minister of Trade and Industry
Israel Galili – Minister without Portfolio
Mordechai Bentov – Minister of Housing
Yaakov Shimshon Shapira – Minister of Justice
Haim Gvati – Minister of Agriculture
Israel Barzilai – Minister of Health
Yosef Burg – Minister of Welfare
Yigal Allon – Minister of Labor
Eliyahu Sasson – Minister of Postal Services
Moshe Carmel – Minister of Transportation
Zerach Warhaftig – Minister of Religions
Moshe Kol – Minister of Tourism and Minister of Development

Seated right to left:
Abba Eban – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Zalman Aran – Minister of Education and Culture
Haim Moshe Shapira – Minister of Interior
Zalman Shazar – Third President
Levi Eshkol – Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit – Minister of Police
Pinhas Sapir – Minister of Finance

Government Members:
Levi Eshkol – Prime Minister and Minister of Defense until 5.6.67 (died on 26.2.69)
Abba Eban – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Yigal Allon – Appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Immigrant Absorption on 1.7.68, and Acting Prime Minister on 26.2.69
Zalman Aran – Minister of Education and Culture
Yosef Burg – Minister of Welfare
Mordechai Bentov – Minister of Housing
Israel Barzilai – Minister of Health
Haim Gvati – Minister of Agriculture
Israel Galili – Minister without Portfolio until 5.6.67, thereafter Minister of Information
Zerach Warhaftig – Minister of Religions
Moshe Carmel – Minister of Transportation
Pinhas Sapir – Minister of Finance until 5.8.68, thereafter Minister without Portfolio
Haim Zadok – Minister of Trade and Industry until his resignation on 22.11.66
Moshe Kol – Minister of Tourism and Minister of Development
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit – Minister of Police until his resignation on 2.1.67
Haim Moshe Shapira – Minister of Interior
Yaakov Shimshon Shapira – Minister of Justice
Eliyahu Sasson – Minister of Postal Services until 2.1.67, thereafter Minister of Police
Zeev Sherf – joined the Government as Minister of Trade and Industry on 22.11.66, also Minister of Finance from 5.8.68
Yisrael Yeshayahu – Minister of Postal Services from 2.1.67
Moshe Dayan – Minister of Defense from 5.6.67
Menachem Begin – Minister without Portfolio from 5.6.67
Yosef Sapir – Minister without portfolio from 5.6.67
Joseph Almogi – Minister of Labor from 8.7.68

Comments: 
1. On 5.6.67, with the outbreak of the 6-Day War, ministers from the Gahal and Rafi parties joined the Government (Dayan, Begin and Sapir).
2. On 26.2.69, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol passed away, and the Government ended its tenure.  It served as a transitional Government for 41 days.

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