Alignment National Religious Party Independent Liberals Progress and Development Arab List for Bedouin and Villagers
Status in legislature
Coalition
Opposition leader
Menachem Begin
History
Election
1973 Israeli legislative election
Legislature term
8th Knesset
Predecessor
15th Cabinet of Israel
Successor
17th Cabinet of Israel
The sixteenth government of Israel was formed by Golda Meir on 10 March 1974, following the December 1973 elections. However, following Meir's resignation as Prime Minister on 11 April, it only remained in office until 3 June, and at just 85 days, was the shortest-lived government in Israeli political history.[1]
Meir's coalition consisted of only three parties; the Alignment, the National Religious Party and the Independent Liberals, although the two Israeli Arab Alignment-affiliated parties (Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers) had merged into the Alignment following the election, and held 68 of the 120 seats in the Knesset. The government initially had 22 ministers, although Minister of Welfare Michael Hasani resigned on 4 April and was not replaced. Nine of the ministers were non-Knesset members, although two of them (both from the Independent Liberals) had been elected to the Knesset in the recent election, but resigned after being appointed to the cabinet. Unlike the previous government, in which there were nine deputy ministerial portfolios, the sixteenth government had only one deputy minister, who was not appointed until 6 May.
Despite her government being praised for its administration, Meir resigned on 11 April 1974 after the Agranat Commission had published its interim report on the Yom Kippur War.[2] The government remained in office whilst the Labor Party (the largest faction within the Alignment) elected a new leader who would attempt to form a new government. On 26 April Yitzhak Rabin, then Minister of Labour, defeated Shimon Peres, the Minister of Information, in the party's leadership contest. Rabin went on to form the seventeenth government on 3 June 1974.
Israeli government formation, March 1974
← 1969
10 March 1974
June 1974 →
Nominee
Golda Meir
Menachem Begin
Party
Alignment
Likud
Electoral vote
68
52
Percentage
56.7%
43.3%
Prime Minister before election
Golda Meir
Alignment
Elected Prime Minister
Golda Meir
Alignment
^1974 timeline Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine Jewish Agency for Israel
^The Eighth Knesset Knesset website
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