Former Israeli Prime Ministers
Send to a friendEhud Barak
Minister of Defence, Head of the Labour Party, Former Prime Minister
Ehud Barak was born in 1942 in Kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon. He joined the Israel Defence Forces in 1959, and served as a soldier and commander of an elite…Read more
Menachem Begin
Prime Minister 1977-1983
Menachem Begin - underground commander, parliamentarian and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel - was born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland in 1913. A passionate Zionist from an early…Read more
David Ben-Gurion
Founder of the State of Israel, Prime Minister 1948-1953 and 1955-1963
David Ben-Gurion - Zionist leader and Israel's first and longest-serving Prime Minister - was born David Green in Plonsk, Poland in 1886 and educated in a Hebrew school established by…Read more
Levi Eshkol
Prime Minister 1963-1969
Levi Eshkol - labour Zionist leader and the third Prime Minister of the State of Israel - was born Levi Shkolnik in the Ukraine in 1895. He had a traditional…Read more
Golda Meir
Prime Minister 1969-1974
Golda Meir was born Golda Mabovitch in Kiev in 1898, and emigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA in 1906 with her family due to economic hardship. In high school she…Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu
Likud Party Chairman; Leader of the Opposition; Prime Minister 1996-1999
Benjamin Netanyahu was born in Tel Aviv in 1949 and grew up in Jerusalem. He spent his adolescent years in the United States, where his father - a noted historian…Read more
Shimon Peres
President of the State of Israel, Former Prime Minister
Shimon Peres was born in Byelorussia in 1923 and immigrated to Palestine with his family at the age of 11. He grew up in Tel Aviv and attended the agricultural…Read more
Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister 1974-1977 and 1992-1995
Yitzhak Rabin - IDF Chief of Staff, diplomat and the fifth Prime Minister of the State of Israel - was born in Jerusalem in 1922, the son of a labour-Zionist…Read more
Yitzhak Shamir
Prime Minister 1983-1984 and 1986-1992
Yitzhak Shamir was born in Ruzinoy, Poland in 1915. He attended the Bialystok Hebrew Secondary School and was an active member of Jabotinsky's Betar Zionist youth movement.…Read more
Moshe Sharett
Prime Minister 1954-1955
Moshe Sharett - the first Foreign Minister and second Prime Minister of the State of Israel - was born Moshe Shertok in Kherson (Ukraine) in 1894. He arrived in Israel…Read more
Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister 2001-2005
Ariel ('Arik') Sharon was born in 1928 in Kfar Malal. He served in the IDF for more than 25 years, retiring with the rank of Major-General. He holds an LL.B…Read more
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