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The Ministry of Housing and Construction (Hebrew: משרד הבינוי והשיכון‎, Misrad HaBinui VeHaShikhun) is a portfolio in the Israeli cabinet. The ministry was created in 1961, and until 1977 it was known as the Ministry of Housing. Construction was also previously part of the Labour and Construction ministry during the provisional government between 1948 and 1949. The current minister is Ariel Atias of Shas.

There has been a Deputy Minister on several occasions.

List of housing and construction ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Giora Yoseftal	Mapai	10	November 2, 1961 – August 23, 1962 1
Yosef Almogi	Mapai	10, 11, 12	October 30, 1962 – May 23, 1965
Levi Eshkol	Mapai	12	May 31, 1965 – January 12, 1966
Mordechai Bentov	Not an MK 2	13, 14	January 12, 1966 – December 15, 1969
Ze'ev Sherf	Alignment	15	December 15, 1969 – March 10, 1974
Yehoshua Rabinovitz	Not an MK 3	16	March 10, 1974 – June 3, 1974
Avraham Ofer	Alignment	17	June 3, 1974 – January 3, 1977 1
Shlomo Rosen	Not an MK 4	17	January 16, 1977 – June 20, 1977
Gideon Patt	Likud	18	June 20, 1977 – January 15, 1979
David Levy	Likud	18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23	January 15, 1979 – June 11, 1990
Ariel Sharon	Likud	24	June 11, 1990 – July 13, 1992
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer	Labor Party	25, 26	July 13, 1992 – June 18, 1996
Benjamin Netanyahu	Likud	27	June 18, 1996 – July 6, 1999
Yitzhak Levy	National Religious Party	28	July 6, 1999 – July 12, 2000
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer	One Israel	28	October 11, 2000 – March 7, 2001
Natan Sharansky	Yisrael BaAliyah	29	March 7, 2001 – February 28, 2003
Effi Eitam	National Religious Party	30	March 3, 2003 – June 10, 2004
Tzipi Livni	Likud	30	July 4, 2004 – January 10, 2005 5
Isaac Herzog	Labor Party	30	January 10, 2005 – November 23, 2005
Ze'ev Boim	Kadima	30	January 18, 2006 – May 4, 2006
Meir Sheetrit	Kadima	31	May 4, 2006 – July 4, 2007
Ze'ev Boim	Kadima	31	July 4, 2007 – March 31, 2009
Ariel Atias	Shas	32	March 31, 2009 –

¹ Died in office.

² Although Bentov was not an MK at the time of his appointment, he had previously represented Mapam in the Knesset.

³ Although Rabinovitz was not an MK at the time of his appointment, he was elected to the next Knesset on the Alignment's list.

⁴ Although Rosen was not an MK at the time of his appointment, he had previously represented Mapam and the Alignment in the Knesset.

⁵ Livni was acting minister until 31 August, when her appointment was made permanent.

Deputy Ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Moshe Katsav	Likud	20	October 10, 1983 – September 13, 1984
Avraham Ravitz	Degel HaTorah	24	June 25, 1990 – July 13, 1992
Aryeh Gamliel	Shas	25	July 29, 1992 – September 9, 1993
Ran Cohen	Meretz	25	August 4, 1992 – December 31, 1992
Eli Ben-Menachem	Labor Party	25, 26	April 8, 1993 – June 18, 1996
Alex Goldfarb	Yiud, Atid	25, 26	January 2, 1992 – June 18, 1996
Meir Porush	United Torah Judaism	27, 29	June 24, 1996 – July 6, 1999 June 4, 2001 – February 28, 2003
Eli Ben-Menachem	Labor Party	30	January 11, 2005 – November 23, 2005

External links

• Ministry of Construction and Housing
• All Ministers in the Ministry of Housing and Construction Knesset website