Minister of Diaspora Affairs

Minister of Diaspora Affairs
משרד התפוצות
Agency overview
Formed 1999
Jurisdiction Government of Israel
Minister responsible

The Minister of Diaspora Affairs is a post in the Israeli cabinet. The portfolio 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.

The combination of the portfolios of Diaspora relations emphasized the role of the ministry as one of a number of leading spokespersons for the Israeli government abroad, albeit more directly to the Jewish diaspora in comparison to the general state-to-state diplomacy of the Foreign 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
(5)Benjamin NetanyahuLikud3318 March 201329 April 2013Serving Prime Minister
(6)Naftali BennettThe Jewish Home33, 3429 April 20131 June 2015
Minister of Diaspora Affairs
Naftali BennettThe Jewish Home33, 341 June 2015

Deputy ministers

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

References

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