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The Fifteenth Government
Fifteenth Government 15.12.69-10.3.74 – Prime Minister Golda Meir
  The 15th Government
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Standing left to right:
Shlomo Hillel – Minister of Police
Moshe Dayan – Minister of Defense
Zerach Warhaftig – Minister of Religions
Yaakov Shimshon Shapira – Minister of Justice
Shimon Peres – Minister without Portfolio
Yosef Burg – Minister of Welfare
Zeev Sherf –Minister of Housing
Yosef Sapir – Minister of Trade and Industry
Elimelech Rimalt – Minister of Postal Services
Moshe Kol – Minister of Tourism
Pinhas Sapir – Minister of Finance
Israel Barzilai – Minister without Portfolio
Victor Shem-Tov – Minister without Portfolio
Ezer Weizman – Minister of Transportation
Haim Gvati – Minister of Health and Minister of Agriculture
Haim Landau – Minister of Development
Menachem Begin – Minister without Portfolio
Aryeh Dolchin – Minister without Portfolio
Haim Moshe Shapira – Minister of Interior
Michael Arnon – Government Secretary

Seated left to right:
Golda Meir – Prime Minister
Zalman Shazar – Third President
Yigal Allon – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Culture

Government Members:
Golda Meir – Prime Minister
Yigal Allon – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Culture
Abba Eban – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Joseph Almogi – Minister of Labor
Menachem Begin – Minister without Portfolio, tendered his resignation on 4.8.70, which took effect on 6.8.70
Yosef Burg – Minister of Welfare until 1.9.70, thereafter Minister of Interior
Israel Barzilai – Minister without Portfolio, died 12.6.70
Haim Gvati – Minister of Agriculture, also Minister of Health between 22.12.69 and 27.7.70, and Minister of Development from 1.9.70
Israel Galili – Minister without Portfolio
Aryeh Dolchin – Minister without Portfolio, tendered his resignation on 4.8.70, which took effect on 6.8.70
Moshe Dayan – Minister of Defense
Shlomo Hillel – Minister of Police
Ezer Weizman – Minister of Transportation, tendered his resignation on 4.8.70, which took effect on 6.8.70
Zerach Warhaftig – Minister of Religions
Haim Landau – Minister of Development, tendered his resignation on 4.8.70, which took effect on 6.8.70
Yosef Sapir – Minister of Trade and Industry, tendered his resignation on 4.8.70, which took effect on 6.8.70
Pinhas Sapir – Minister of Finance, also Minister of Trade and Industry between 1.9.70 and 5.3.72
Shimon Peres – Minister without Portfolio, temporarily Minister of Immigrant Absorption between 21.12.69 and 27.7.70.  Minister of Transportation and Minister of Postal Services from 1.9.70
Moshe Kol – Minister of Tourism
Elimelech Rimalt – Minister of Postal Services, tendered his resignation on 4.8.70, which took effect on 6.8.70
Victor Shem-Tov – Minister without Portfolio, Minister of Health from 27.7.70
Haim Moshe Shapira – Minister of Interior, died 16.7.70
Yaakov Shimshon Shapira – Minister of Justice, tendered his resignation on 11.6.72, which took effect on 13.6.72; re-appointed Minister of Justice on 12.9.72, again tendered his resignation, on 30.10.73, which took effect on 1.11.73
Zeev Sherf –Minister of Housing
Natan Peled – joined the Government on 27.7.70 as Minister of Immigrant Absorption
Michael Chasani – joined the Government on 1.9.70 as Minister of Welfare
Haim Bar-Lev – joined the Government on 5.3.72 as Minister of Trade and Industry (approved by Knesset on 6.3.72)

Comment: 
1. Due to the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, elections were postponed from 3.11.73 to 1.1.74.
2. In accordance with the adoption of United Nations Resolution 242 by the Government, the ministers of Gahal resigned on 6.8.70.  Thus ended the “National Likud Government”.

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