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Prime Minister of Israel

head of government of Israel

19 dated entries naming Prime Minister of Israel, drawn from 17 separate years between 1886 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Israel's Prime Minister, Israeli PM, Israeli Prime Minister, Israeli prime minister in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1886October 16 – David Ben-Gurion, Polish-born first Prime Minister of Israel (died 1973)source

20th century

  • 1913August 16 – Menachem Begin, Polish-born 6th Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1992)source
  • 1922March 1 – Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1995)source
  • 19221 March – Yitzhak Rabin, Fifth Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1995).source
  • 1923August 2 – Shimon Peres, 8th Prime Minister of Israel, 9th President of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 2016)source
  • 1928February 26 – Ariel Sharon, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (died 2014)source
  • 194212 February – Ehud Barak, the 13th Chief of Staff of the IDF and former Prime Minister of Israelsource
  • 1949January 25 – In the first Israeli elections, David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.source
  • 1960May 11 – In Buenos Aires, four Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi German war criminal Adolf Eichmann in order that he can be taken to Israel and put on trial. This is announced on May 23 by Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion.source
  • 196326 June – Levi Eshkol is elected Prime Minister of Israel. The 11th Government is approved that day and the members are sworn in.source
  • 1973December 1 – David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (born 1886)source
  • 1992March 9 – Menachem Begin, 78, Israeli politician, prime minister (1977–1983), Nobel Prize recipient (1978), heart attack.source

21st century

  • 2001February 6 – 2001 Israeli prime ministerial election: Ariel Sharon of the Likud party is elected Prime Minister of Israel.source
  • 2014January 11 – Ariel Sharon, 85, Israeli politician and general, Minister of Defense (1981–1983), Prime Minister (2001–2006), heart failure.source
  • 2020April 20 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Alliance leader Benny Gantz agree on a deal to form a unity government, thus ending more than a year of political deadlock. As part of the deal, Netanyahu will hold onto his position for 18 more months, with Gantz replacing him afterwards.source
  • 2021June 13 – Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving prime minister of Israel, is voted out of office; Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid are sworn in as Prime Minister of Israel and as Alternate Prime Minister of Israel, respectively.source
  • 2022July 1 – Yair Lapid succeeds Naftali Bennett as Prime Minister of Israel, while Bennett succeeds Lapid as Alternate Prime Minister of Israel; this arrangement had been created after the 2021 Israeli legislative election, in which no party won an outright majority.source
  • 2022November 1 – 2022 Israeli legislative election: A bloc of right-wing and far-right political parties led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins a 64-seat majority (out of 120), allowing him to be sworn in as Prime Minister of Israel for a third time in December.source
  • 2025April 3 – Hungary withdraws from the International Criminal Court after Israeli Prime Minister and accused war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest for a state visit, in defiance of the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against him.source

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