Chaim Weizmann (until 9 November 1952) Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (from 16 December 1952)
Head of government
David Ben-Gurion
Member parties
Mapai Hapoel HaMizrachi Mizrachi Agudat Yisrael Poalei Agudat Yisrael Democratic List for Israeli Arabs Progress and Work Agriculture and Development
Status in legislature
Coalition
Opposition leader
Peretz Bernstein
History
Election(s)
1951 Israeli legislative election
Legislature term(s)
2nd Knesset
Predecessor
2nd cabinet of Israel
Successor
4th cabinet of Israel
Cabinet ministers leaving Prime Minister's office after the first session of Israel's 3rd Government
The third government of Israel was formed by David Ben-Gurion on 8 October 1951, more than two months after the elections. His Mapai party formed a coalition with Mizrachi, Hapoel HaMizrachi, Agudat Yisrael, Poalei Agudat Yisrael and the three Israeli Arab parties, the Democratic List for Israeli Arabs, Progress and Work and Agriculture and Development. There were 15 ministers.
Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael left the coalition on 23 September 1952 (though Kalman Kahana remained a deputy minister) shortly after disagreements over the conscription of women into the IDF. This left the government with only 60 of the 120 seats in the Knesset.[1]
The government resigned on 19 December 1952 due to a dispute with the religious parties over religious education.
Two ministers, Eliezer Kaplan and David-Zvi Pinkas died in office.
The Cabinet
Position
Person
Party
Prime Minister Minister of Defense
David Ben-Gurion
Mapai
Deputy Prime Minister
Eliezer Kaplan (until 13 July 1952)[a]
Mapai
Minister of Agriculture
Levi Eshkol (until 25 June 1952)
Mapai
Peretz Naftali (after 25 June 1952)
Mapai
Minister of Education and Culture
Ben-Zion Dinor
Not an MK[b]
Minister of Finance
Eliezer Kaplan (until 25 June 1952)
Mapai
Levi Eshkol (after 25 June 1952)
Mapai
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Moshe Sharett
Mapai
Minister of Health
Yosef Burg
Hapoel HaMizrachi
Minister of Internal Affairs Minister of Religions
Haim-Moshe Shapira
Hapoel HaMizrachi
Minister of Justice
Dov Yosef (until 25 June 1952)
Mapai
Haim Cohn (after 25 June 1952)
Not an MK
Minister of Labour
Golda Meir
Mapai
Minister of Police
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit
Mapai
Minister of Postal Services
Mordechai Nurock
Mizrachi
Minister of Trade and Industry
Dov Yosef
Mapai
Minister of Transportation
David-Zvi Pinkas (until 14 August 1952)[a]
Mizrachi
David Ben-Gurion (after 14 August 1952)
Mapai
Minister of Welfare
Yitzhak Meir Levin (until 18 September 1952)
Agudat Yisrael
Minister without Portfolio
Peretz Naftali (until 25 June 1952)
Mapai
Minister without Portfolio
Pinhas Lavon (17 August - 24 December 1952)
Mapai
Deputy Minister of Agriculture
Yosef Efrati
Mapai
Deputy Minister of Education and Culture
Kalman Kahana
Poalei Agudat Yisrael
^ abDied in office
^Although Dinor was not an MK in the second Knesset, he had been an MK for Mapai in the first Knesset.
^1952 timeline Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine Jewish Agency for Israel
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