2 weeks ago - David Ben-Gurion (top left) was the first prime minister of Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu (top right) is the longest-serving and incumbent prime minister, as well as the first Israeli prime minister to be born in the State of Israel after its independence. Yair Lapid (bottom left) is considered ...

2 weeks ago - This is a list of prime ministers of Israel organized chronologically from earliest to most

2 weeks ago - On 25 July 1993, after Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel, Rabin authorized a week-long military operation in Lebanon. Rabin played a leading role in the signing of the Oslo Accords, which created the Palestinian National Authority and granted it partial control over parts of the ...

February 22, 2023 - Rabin was the first native-born Prime Minister of Israel. In 1993, the world was surprised by news that Israel and its long-time adversary, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), had been engaged ...

2 days ago - In 1972, he returned to the US, ... The Jonathan Institute. Between 1984 and 1988 Netanyahu was Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. Netanyahu rose to prominence after his election as chair of Likud in 1993, becoming leader of the opposition....

June 6, 2026 - Israel - Prime ministers of Israel: The table provides a chronological list of the prime ministers of Israel.

He served as prime minister until May, 1977, when he was replaced by Shimon Peres. Rabin went on to serve as defense minister from 1984 until 1990. In February, 1992, he was elected leader of the Labor Party and, in June, 1992, again became ...

3 weeks ago - Shamir became leader of Herut and Likud in 1983, leading Likud until 1993. ... ↑ Haberman, Clyde (2012-06-30). "Former Israeli PM Shamir dies at 96".

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and chief executive of the state. Prime Ministers are elected for four-year terms, but the Knesset can dissolve and call new elections at any time.

May 11, 2008 - After a military career during which he became chief of staff for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Yitzhak Rabin pursued a diplomatic, then later political, path that eventually led him to become prime minister.

Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974-77, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995.

Yitzhak Rabin was the soldier who became Prime Minister of Israel in 1992, and who abandoned the use of force in favor of negotiations to achieve peace with the Palestinians. He approved the Oslo Accords, negotiated in secret in Norway in 1993.

September 6, 2025 - Ezer Weizman, former Israeli Air Force commander and Defense Minister of Israel, ran against Dov Shilansky, a Likud politician. The Knesset elected Weizman, by a majority of 66 to 53 to serve as the next President of Israel. He assumed office on May 13, 1993.

The position of Prime Minister of Israel was established alongside the independence of the state of Israel. From the first election in 1949 to 1996 the PM was a member of the Knesset as explained above. However, from 1996 to 2003, the Knesset opted to have the public vote for the PM on a separate ballot.

1 week ago - Wikimedia Commons has media related to Prime ministers of Israel. ... The PM's Who Shaped Israel Archived 13 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine – slideshow by The First Post

Born in Ukraine and raised in Wisconsin, Meir rose in Labor Zionism with the Histadrut and engaged in diplomacy for the Jewish Agency and Israel, including trying to keep Transjordan out of the 1948 war… ... Netanyahu has served as the Likud ...

Netanyahu was called upon throughout to uphold Israel’s image with its Western allies and to work toward a negotiated peace between Israel and neighboring states. Again, Netanyahu’s diplomatic skills earned him the popular support of his party. In 1993, Likud elected him its chair and its candidate for prime minister of Israel.

November 21, 2024 - Netanyahu was also Israel's youngest leader and the first to be born after the state was founded in 1948. Despite having fiercely criticised the 1993 Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians, Netanyahu signed a deal handing over 80% of Hebron to Palestinian Authority control and agreed to further withdrawals from the occupied West Bank, to much opprobrium from the right.

4 days ago - His third term began in 2022. Benjamin Netanyahu is a member of Likud, an ideologically conservative and nationalist party. He first became Likud’s leader in 1993, succeeding Yitzḥak Shamir, but he lost that role to Ariel Sharon in 1999.