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Ministry of Health
משרד הבריאות
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Agency overview
Formed 1948
Jurisdiction Government of Israel
Minister responsible
  • Uriel Buso
Agency executive
  • Moshe Bar Siman Tov, Director-General

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 health care services. 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, and facilities for the chronically ill.

The current Minister of Health is Uriel Buso

History

In January 2021, the ministry entered a collaborative agreement with Pfizer granting the company access to Israel citizens' personal electronic medical records in order to observe the real-world safety and efficacy of the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine product.

In February 2022, the ministry banned medical professionals in Israel from providing conversion therapy.

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 1952 Sapir and Serlin swapped ministerial portfolios;
Sapir became Minister of Transportation
4 Yosef Serlin General Zionists 4, 5 29 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 1996 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
28 Ya'akov Litzman United Torah Judaism 34 27 August 2015 28 November 2017
– Benjamin Netanyahu Likud 34 28 November 2017 29 December 2019 Serving Prime Minister
– Yaakov Litzman United Torah Judaism 34 29 December 2019 17 May 2020
29 Yuli Edelstein Likud 35 17 May 2020 13 June 2021
30 Nitzan Horowitz Meretz 36 13 June 2021 29 December 2022
31 Aryeh Deri Shas 37 29 December 2022 24 January 2023
– Yoav Ben-Tzur Shas 37 24 January 2023 19 April 2023 Serving as Acting Minister following Aryeh Deri's dismissal
32 Moshe Arbel Shas 37 19 April 2023 12 October 2023
33 Uriel Buso Shas 37 12 October 2023

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 2 September 2015 De facto minister (UTJ do not take full cabinet posts)
– Ya'akov Litzman United Torah Judaism 34 10 January 2018 29 December 2019
10 Yoav Kisch Likud 35 25 May 2020 13 June 2021

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Ministerio de Salud (Israel) para niños

  • Health care in Israel
  • List of hospitals in Israel
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