List of Israelis - Politicians

Politicians

  • Chaim Weizmann – first President of Israel (1949–52)
  • Yitzhak Ben-Zvi – first elected/second president President of Israel (1952–63)
  • David Ben-Gurion – first Prime Minister of Israel (1948–54, 1955–63)
  • Moshe Sharett – prime minister (1954–55)
  • Levi Eshkol – prime minister (1963–69)
  • Abba Eban – diplomat and Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (1966–74)
  • Golda Meir – prime minister (1969–74)
  • Yitzhak Rabin – prime minister (1974–77, 1992–95); Nobel Peace Prize (1994) (assassinated November 1995)
  • Menachem Begin – prime minister (1977–83); Nobel Peace Prize (1978)
  • Yitzhak Shamir – prime minister (1983–84, 1986–92)
  • Shimon Peres – President of Israel (2007–); prime minister (1984–86, 1995–96); Nobel Peace Prize (1994)
  • Benjamin Netanyahu – prime minister (1996–99), (2009–); Likud party chairman
  • Ehud Barak – prime minister (1999–01)
  • Moshe Katsav – president (2000–07), and convicted rapist
  • Ariel Sharon – prime minister (2001–06)
  • Ehud Olmert – prime minister (2006–09); former mayor of Jerusalem
  • Rehavam Zeevi – founder of the Moledet party (assassinated October 2001)
  • Yossi Beilin – leader of the Meretz-Yachad party and peace negotiator
  • Yosef Lapid – former leader of the Shinui party
  • Teddy Kollek – former mayor of Jerusalem
  • Effie Eitam – former leader of the National Religious Party party, now head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party
  • Rabbi Ovadia Yosef – spiritual leader of the Shas party

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