Ministry of Health (Israel)

Ministry of Health

משרד הבריאות
Ministry of Health building
Agency overview
Formed	1948
Jurisdiction	Government of Israel
Minister responsible	Yaakov Litzman
Website	www.health.gov.il

The Ministry of Health (Hebrew: מִשְׂרַד הַבְּרִיאוּת‎, translit. Misrad HaBri'ut) is a ministry in the Israeli government responsible for formulating health policies. The ministry plans, supervises, licenses and coordinates the country's healthcare services.^[1] In addition to overseeing health services provided by Kupat Holim and family health centers such as Tipat Halav, the ministry maintains general hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, mental health clinics, treatment programs for substance abuse and facilities for the chronically ill.^[2]

The current Minister of Health is Ya'akov Litzman.^[3]

Discrimination

Although the official languages of Israel are both Hebrew and Arabic, and 18% of Israel's citizens are Arab speakers, the Israeli Ministry of Health does not have a spokesperson who speaks Arabic or a liasion to work with Arab-language media. The Israel Government Advertising Agency reports that there are 15 health and environment ad campaigns, all in Hebrew only.^[4]

List of ministers

#	Minister	Party	Government	Term start	Term end	Notes
1	Haim-Moshe Shapira	United Religious Front, Hapoel HaMizrachi	P, 1, 2	14 May 1948	8 October 1951
2	Yosef Burg	Hapoel HaMizrachi	3	8 October 1951	24 December 1952
3	Yosef Sapir	General Zionists	4	24 December 1952	29 December 1953	Sapir and Serlin swapped ministerial portfolios; Sapir became Minister of Transportation
4	Yosef Serlin	General Zionists	4, 5	12 December 1953	29 June 1955
5	Dov Yosef	Mapai	6	29 June 1955	3 November 1955
6	Yisrael Barzilai	Mapam	7, 8, 9	3 November 1955	2 November 1961
–	Haim-Moshe Shapira	National Religious Party	10, 11, 12	2 November 1961	12 January 1966
–	Yisrael Barzilai	Not an MK	13, 14	12 January 1966	15 December 1969	Member of Mapam
7	Haim Gvati	Alignment	15	22 December 1969	27 July 1970
8	Victor Shem-Tov	Not an MK	15, 16, 17	27 July 1970	20 June 1977	Member of the Alignment
9	Eliezer Shostak	Likud	18, 19, 20	20 June 1977	13 September 1984
10	Mordechai Gur	Alignment	21	13 September 1984	20 October 1986
11	Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino	Alignment	22	20 October 1986	22 December 1988
12	Ya'akov Tzur	Alignment	23	22 December 1988	15 March 1990
13	Ehud Olmert	Likud	24	11 June 1990	13 July 1992
14	Haim Ramon	Labor Party	25	13 July 1992	8 February 1994
15	Yitzhak Rabin	Labor Party	25	8 February 1994	1 June 1994	Serving Prime Minister
16	Efraim Sneh	Labor Party	25, 26	1 June 1994	18 June 1996
17	Tzachi Hanegbi	Likud	27	18 June 199	12 November 1996
18	Yehoshua Matza	Likud	27	12 November 1996	6 July 1999
19	Shlomo Benizri	Shas	28	6 July 1999	11 July 2000
20	Roni Milo	Centre Party	28	10 August 2000	7 March 2001
21	Nissim Dahan	Shas	29	7 March 2001	23 May 2002
22	Ariel Sharon	Likud	29	23 May 2002	3 June 2002	Serving Prime Minister
–	Nissim Dahan	Shas	29	3 June 2002	28 February 2003
23	Dan Naveh	Likud	30	28 February 2003	14 January 2006
24	Yaakov Edri	Kadima	30	18 January 2006	4 May 2006
25	Ya'akov Ben-Yezri	Gil	31	4 May 2006	31 March 2009
26	Benjamin Netanyahu	Likud	32	31 March 2009	18 March 2013	Serving Prime Minister
27	Yael German	Yesh Atid	33	18 March 2013	4 December 2014
–	Benjamin Netanyahu	Likud	34	14 May 2015	27 August 2015	Serving Prime Minister
–	Ya'akov Litzman	United Torah Judaism	34	27 August 2015

Deputy ministers

#	Minister	Party	Government	Term start	Term end	Notes
1	Yitzhak Rafael	National Religious Party	10, 11, 12	2 November 1961	22 March 1965
2	Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir	National Religious Party	12	24 March 1965	12 January 1966
3	Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi	Alignment	15	24 May 1971	10 March 1974
4	Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino	Alignment	21	24 September 1984	20 October 1986
5	Eliezer Mizrahi	Agudat Yisrael Geulat Yisrael	24	25 June 1990	13 July 1992
6	Nawaf Massalha	Labor Party	25, 26	4 August 1992	18 June 1996
7	Shlomo Benizri	Shas	27	13 August 1996	6 July 1999
8	Ya'akov Litzman	United Torah Judaism	32	1 April 2009	18 March 2013	De facto minister (UTJ do not take full cabinet posts)
9	Tzachi Hanegbi	Likud	33	24 December 2014	14 May 2015
–	Ya'akov Litzman	United Torah Judaism	34	19 May 2015	27 August 2015	De facto minister (UTJ do not take full cabinet posts)

See also

• Health care in Israel
• List of hospitals in Israel

References

1. Ministry of Health
2. Health Services in Israel
3. https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindex_current_eng.asp?view=4
4. Jack Khoury: Israeli Health Ministry Ignores Arabs in Nutrition Campaigns, NGO Claims. Haaretz, 14 June 2016.

External links

• All Ministers in the Ministry of Health Knesset website