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The Tourism Minister of Israel (Hebrew: שר התיירות‎, Sar HaTayarut) is the political head of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism and a relatively minor position in the Israeli cabinet. The position is currently held by Stas Misezhnikov of Yisrael Beiteinu.

The position was created in 1964, with Akiva Govrin being the first person to hold the job, but was appended to the Trade and Industry portfolio between 1977 and 1981. Ehud Barak is the only Prime Minister to have held the position whilst serving as head of government, whilst Moshe Katsav, who was Minister of Tourism from 1996 to 1999, went on to become President.

On one occasion there was a Deputy Minister of Tourism.

List of Tourism ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Akiva Govrin	Mapai	12th	22 December 1964 – 12 January 1966
Moshe Kol 1	Independent Liberals	13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th	12 January 1966 – 20 June 1977
Gideon Patt	Likud	19th	5 August 1981 – 11 August 1981
Avraham Sharir	Likud	19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd	11 August 1981 – 22 December 1988
Gideon Patt	Likud	23rd, 24th	22 December 1988 – 13 July 1992
Uzi Baram	Labor Party	25th, 26th	13 July 1992 – 18 June 1996
Moshe Katsav	Likud	27th	18 June 1996 – 6 July 1999
Ehud Barak 2	One Israel	28th	6 July 1999 – 5 August 1999
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak	Centre Party	28th	5/8/1999- 7 March 2001
Rehavam Ze'evi 3	National Union	29th	7 March 2001 – 17 October 2001
Binyamin Elon	National Union	29th	31 October 2001 – 14 March 2002
Yitzhak Levy	National Religious Party	29th	18 September 2002 – 28 February 2003
Binyamin Elon 4	National Union	30th	28 February 2003 – 6 June 2004
Gideon Ezra 5	Likud	30th	4 July 2004 – 10 January 2005
Avraham Hirschson	Kadima	30th	10 January 2005 – 4 May 2006
Isaac Herzog	Labor Party	31st	4 May 2006 – 21 March 2007
Yitzhak Aharonovich	Yisrael Beiteinu	31st	21 March 2007 – 16 January 2008
Ruhama Avraham	Kadima	31st	14 July 2008 – 31 March 2009
Stas Misezhnikov	Yisrael Beiteinu	32nd	31/3/2009–present

¹ Kol resigned from the Knesset when appointed Minister in line with Independent Liberals party policy.

² Also serving Prime Minister.

³ Ze'evi was assassinated on 17 October 2001.

⁴ Elon was sacked from the cabinet after the National Union refused to support Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan. In an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to prevent him from being fired before a cabinet vote on the plan by avoiding receiving notification of his sacking, Elon went into hiding.

⁵ Ezra was initially appointed Acting Minister of Tourism, with the position made permanent on 31 August 2004.

Deputy Ministers

Minister	Party	Government(s)	Dates in Office
Yehuda Sha'ari	Independent Liberals	15th	22 December 1969 – 10 March 1974

See also

• Tourism in Israel

External links

• Ministry of Tourism
• All Ministers in the Ministry of Tourism Knesset website