Ministry of Communications
משרד התקשורת

Emblem of Israel
Agency overview
Formed1952
JurisdictionGovernment of Israel
Minister responsible
Websitewww.moc.gov.il

The Ministry of Communications (Hebrew: מִשְׂרָד הַתִּקְשֹׁרֶת, Misrad HaTikshoret) is the Israeli government ministry responsible for Communications in Israel. It is a relatively minor position in the cabinet. The ministry was established in 1952, and until 1970 was known as the Ministry of Postal Services (Hebrew: משרד הדואר, Misrad HaDo'ar).

List of ministers

The Communications Minister of Israel (Hebrew: שר התקשורת, Sar HaTikshoret) is the political head of the ministry. There is occasionally a Deputy Minister.

# Minister Party Governments Term start Term end Notes
Minister of Postal Services
1Mordechai NurockMizrachi33 November 195224 December 1952
2Yosef BurgHapoel HaMizrachi
National Religious Party		4, 5, 6, 7, 824 December 19521 July 1958
3Yisrael BarzilaiMapam824 November 195817 December 1959
4Binyamin MintzPoalei Agudat Yisrael917 July 196030 May 1961Died in office
5Eliyahu SassonAlignment10, 11, 12, 132 November 19612 January 1967Not an MK until after the 1965 elections
6Yisrael YeshayahuAlignment13, 142 January 196715 December 1969
7Elimelekh RimaltGahal1515 December 19696 August 1970
Minister of Communications
8Shimon PeresAlignment151 September 197010 March 1974
9Aharon UzanNot an MK1610 March 19743 June 1974
10Yitzhak RabinAlignment173 June 197420 March 1975
–Aharon UzanNot an MK1720 March 197520 June 1977
11Menachem BeginLikud1820 June 197724 October 1977
12Meir AmitDash1820 June 197715 September 1978
13Yitzhak Moda'iLikud1815 January 197922 December 1980
14Yoram AridorLikud185 January 19815 August 1981
15Mordechai TziporiLikud19, 205 August 198113 September 1984
16Amnon RubinsteinShinui21, 2213 September 198426 May 1987
17Gad YaacobiAlignment22, 239 June 198715 March 1990
18Rafael PinhasiShas2411 June 199013 July 1992
19Moshe ShahalLabor Party2513 July 19927 June 1993
20Shulamit AloniMeretz25, 267 June 199318 June 1996
21Limor LivnatLikud2718 June 19966 July 1999
22Binyamin Ben-EliezerOne Israel286 July 19997 March 2001
23Reuven RivlinLikud297 March 200128 February 2003
24Ariel SharonLikud3028 February 200317 August 2003
25Ehud OlmertLikud3029 September 200310 January 2005
26Dalia ItzikLabor Party3010 January 200523 November 2005
27Avraham HirschsonKadima3018 January 20064 May 2006
28Ariel AtiasShas314 May 200631 April 2009
29Moshe KahlonLikud3231 April 200918 March 2013
30Gilad ErdanLikud3318 March 20135 November 2014
31Benjamin NetanyahuLikud33, 345 November 201421 February 2017Also serving Prime Minister
32Tzachi HanegbiLikud3421 February 201729 May 2017Acting Minister
33Ayoob KaraLikud3429 May 201724 June 2019
34Dudi AmsalemLikud341 July 201917 May 2020
35Yoaz HendelDerekh Eretz3517 May 202016 December 2020
36Eitan GinzburgBlue and White353 May 202113 June 2021
37Yoaz HendelNew Hope3613 June 202129 December 2022
38Shlomo KarhiLikud3729 December 2022

Deputy ministers

# Minister Party Governments Term start Term end
1Jabr Muadi Progress and Development, Alignment 15, 16, 17 27 October 197124 March 1975
2Eliyahu Moyal Alignment 17 24 March 197520 June 1977
3Efraim Gur Alignment 24 2 July 199020 November 1990
4Yitzhak Vaknin Shas 28 5 August 199911 July 2000


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