Israel
- Minister of Labor – Golda Meir – 1949
- Minister of Foreign Affairs – Golda Meir – 1955
- Prime Minister – Golda Meir – 1969
- Minister of Health – Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino – 1986
- State Comptroller – Miriam Ben Porat – 1988
- State Attorney – Dorit Beinisch – 1989
- Minister of Education – Shulamit Aloni – 1992
- Minister of Environment – Ora Namir – 1992
- Minister of Communications – Shulamit Aloni – 1993
- Minister of Science and Culture – Shulamit Aloni – 1993
- Minister of Immigrant Absorption – Yuli Tamir – 1999
- Minister of Regional Cooperation – Tzipi Livni – 2001
- Minister of Commerce and Industry – Dalia Itzik – 2001
- Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development – Tzipi Livni – 2003
- Minister of Housing and Construction – Tzipi Livni – 2003
- Minister of Justice – Tzipi Livni – 2004
- Speaker of the Knesset – Dalia Itzik – 2006
- President (acting) – Dalia Itzik – 2007
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Famous quotes containing the word israel:
“Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy,
And with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXX (l. CXXX, 7–8)
“For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17-9.
“appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 8:5.
Leaders of ancient Israel asking the last of the judges, Samuel, to appoint a king.