Ministry of Diaspora Affairs

Emblem of Israel
Agency overview
Formed1999
JurisdictionGovernment of Israel
Minister responsible
Agency executive
  • Avi Cohen-Scali, Director-General
Websitewww.gov.il

The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs is a government ministry in Israel. As a ministerial post in the Israeli cabinet, it has gone under several different names and was combined with the Jerusalem portfolio between 2013 and 2015. Between June and November 2005 there was also a Deputy Minister.

List of portfolio holders

# Minister Party Governments Term start Term end Notes
Minister of Social and Diaspora Affairs
1Michael MelchiorOne Israel285 August 19997 March 2001
2Natan SharanskyLikud303 March 20034 May 2006
Minister of Diaspora, Society and the Fight Against Antisemitism
3Isaac HerzogLabor Party3121 March 200731 March 2009
Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs
4Yuli-Yoel EdelsteinLikud3231 March 200918 March 2013
Minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs
5Benjamin NetanyahuLikud3318 March 201329 April 2013Serving Prime Minister
6Naftali BennettThe Jewish Home33, 3429 April 20131 June 2015
Minister of Diaspora Affairs
–Naftali BennettThe Jewish Home33, 341 June 20152 June 2019
7Tzipi HotovelyLikud345 January 202017 May 2020
8Omer YankelevichIsrael Resilience Party, Blue and White3517 May 202013 June 2021
9Nachman ShaiLabor Party3613 June 202129 December 2022
10Amichai ChikliLikud3729 December 2022

Deputy ministers

# Minister Party Governments Term start Term end
1Michael MelchiorMeimad3020 June 200523 November 2005

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