Mapai United Religious Front Progressive Party Sephardim and Oriental Communities Democratic List of Nazareth
Status in legislature
Coalition
Opposition leader
Meir Ya'ari
History
Election(s)
1949 Israeli legislative election
Legislature term(s)
1st Knesset
Predecessor
Provisional cabinet of Israel
Successor
2nd cabinet of Israel
First Government of Israel on 1 May 1949. Left-right: Golda Meir, Zalman Shazar, Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, Zvi Maimon (government stenographer), Dov Yosef, Eliezer Kaplan, Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Ze'ev Sherf (cabinet secretary), Pinchas Rosen, David Remez, Haim Moshe Shapira, Yitzhak Meir Levin, Yehuda Leib Maimon.
The first government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 8 March 1949, a month and a half after the elections for the First Knesset. His Mapai party formed a coalition with the United Religious Front, the Progressive Party, the Sephardim and Oriental Communities and the Democratic List of Nazareth, and there were 12 ministers.
A notable piece of legislation enacted during the term of the first government was an educational law in 1949 which introduced compulsory schooling for all children between the ages of 5 and 14.[1]
Ben-Gurion resigned on 15 October 1950 after the United Religious Front objected to his demands that the Supply and Rationing Ministry be closed and a businessman appointed as Minister for Trade and Industry, as well as issues over education in the new immigrant camps.
The Cabinet
Position
Person
Party
Prime Minister Minister of Defense
David Ben-Gurion
Mapai
Minister of Agriculture Minister of Rationing and Supply
Dov Yosef
Mapai
Minister of Education and Culture
Zalman Shazar
Mapai
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Moshe Sharett
Mapai
Minister of Finance Minister of Trade and Industry
Eliezer Kaplan
Mapai
Minister of Health Minister of Immigration Minister of Internal Affairs
Haim-Moshe Shapira
United Religious Front
Minister of Justice
Pinchas Rosen
Progressive Party
Minister of Labour and Social Security
Golda Meir
Mapai
Minister of Police
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit
Sephardim and Oriental Communities
Minister of Religions and War Victims
Yehuda Leib Maimon
United Religious Front
Minister of Transportation
David Remez
Mapai
Minister of Welfare
Yitzhak-Meir Levin
United Religious Front
^The Challenge Of Israel by Misha Louvish. Publisher: Jerusalem Israel Univ Press; 1st Edition (1968)
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