Twentieth government of Israel

The twentieth government of Israel was formed by Yitzhak Shamir of Likud on 10 October 1983, following the resignation of Prime Minister Menachen Begin on 28 August.^[1]

First Shamir Cabinet
20th Cabinet of Israel
Date formed	10 October 1983 (1983-10-10)
Date dissolved	13 September 1984 (1984-09-13)
People and organisations
Head of state	Chaim Herzog
Head of government	Yitzhak Shamir
Member parties	Likud National Religious Party Tami Tehiya Movement for the Renewal of Social Zionism Agudat Yisrael
Status in legislature	Coalition government
Opposition party	Alignment
Opposition leader	Shimon Peres
History
Legislature term	10th Knesset
Predecessor	19th Cabinet of Israel
Successor	21st Cabinet of Israel

Shamir kept the same coalition partners as the previous government, i.e. the National Religious Party, Agudat Yisrael, Tami and the Movement for the Renewal of Social Zionism. The coalition held 62 of the 120 seats in the Knesset. All ministers kept their roles from the previous government, with the only changes being that Shamir replaced Begin as Prime Minister (whilst keeping the Foreign Affairs portfolio), Pesah Grupper being promoted from Deputy Minister of Agriculture (also replacing Begin, who had held the portfolio before), Mordechai Tzipori losing his Deputy Minister of Defense role, and Yehuda Ben-Meir becoming Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The government held office until 13 September the following year, when the twenty-first government was formed following the July 1984 elections.

Israeli government formation, 1983

← 1981 10 October 1983 1984 →

Nominee Yitzhak Shamir Shimon Peres Party Likud Alignment Electoral vote 62 58 Percentage 51.7% 48.3%

Prime Minister before election Menachem Begin Likud Elected Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir Likud

Cabinet members

Position	Person	Party
Prime Minister	Yitzhak Shamir	Likud
Deputy Prime Minister	David Levy	Likud
Minister of Agriculture	Pesah Grupper	Likud
Minister of Communications	Mordechai Tzipori	Likud
Minister of Defense	Moshe Arens	Not an MK 1
Minister of Economics and Inter-Ministry Co-ordination	Ya'akov Meridor	Likud
Minister of Education and Culture	Zevulun Hammer	National Religious Party
Minister of Energy and Infrastructure	Yitzhak Moda'i	Likud
Minister of Finance	Yoram Aridor (until 15 October 1983)	Likud
	Yigal Cohen-Orgad (from 15 October 1983)	Likud
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Yitzhak Shamir	Likud
Minister of Health	Eliezer Shostak	Likud
Minister of Housing and Construction	David Levy	Likud
Minister of Immigrant Absorption	Aharon Uzan	Tami
Minister of Industry and Trade	Gideon Patt	Likud
Minister of Internal Affairs	Yosef Burg	National Religious Party
Minister of Justice	Moshe Nissim	Likud
Minister of Labour and Social Welfare	Aharon Uzan	Tami
Minister of Religious Affairs	Yosef Burg	National Religious Party
Minister of Science and Development	Yuval Ne'eman	Tehiya
Minister of Tourism	Avraham Sharir	Likud
Minister of Transportation	Haim Corfu	Likud
Minister without Portfolio	Mordechai Ben-Porat (until 31 January 1984)	Movement for the Renewal of Social Zionism
	Ariel Sharon	Likud
	Sarah Doron	Likud
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office	Dov Shilansky	Likud
Deputy Minister of Agriculture	Michael Dekel	Likud
Deputy Minister of Education and Culture	Miriam Glazer-Ta'asa	Likud
Deputy Minister of Finance	Haim Kaufman	Likud
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs	Yehuda Ben-Meir	National Religious Party
Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction	Moshe Katsav	Likud
Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare	Ben-Zion Rubin	Tami

¹ Although Arens was not an MK at the time, he had been elected to the Knesset on the Likud list.