Ministry of Public Security (Israel)

The Ministry of Public Security (Hebrew: המשרד לביטחון הפנים, Arabic: وزارة الأمن الداخلي), also Ministry of Internal Security, is a government agency of Israel. It is the statewide law enforcement agency and oversees the Israel Police, the Israel Prison Service and the Israel National Fire and Rescue Services. The current Minister of Public Security is Omer Bar-Lev.[1]

Ministry of Public Security
המשרד לביטחון הפנים

Emblem of Israel
Agency overview
Formed1948
JurisdictionGovernment of Israel
Minister responsible
Websitewww.mops.gov.il

List of ministers

The Minister of Public Security (Hebrew: שר לביטחון פנים, Sar LeVitahon Pnim) is the political head of the ministry. Until 1995 the position was known as Minister of Police (Hebrew: שר המשטרה, Sar HaMishtara). The first Minister of Police, Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, was a former policeman, and served in the position from Israeli independence in May 1948 until a month before his death in January 1967, serving in fourteen governments and making him the country's longest continually serving minister. The post was abolished after Menachem Begin became Prime Minister in 1977, but was reinstated in 1984 when Shimon Peres became PM. There is occasionally a Deputy Minister of Public Security.

# Minister Party Government Term start Term end Notes
Minister of Police
1Bechor-Shalom SheetritSephardim & Oriental Communities
Mapai
Alignment		P, 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12, 13		14 May 19482 January 1967
2Eliyahu SassonAlignment
Labor Party
Alignment		13, 142 January 196715 December 1969
3Shlomo HillelAlignment15, 16, 1715 December 196920 June 1977
4Haim Bar-LevAlignment21, 22, 2313 September 198415 March 1990
5Roni MiloLikud2411 June 199013 July 1992
6Moshe ShahalLabor Party2513 July 199222 November 1995
Minister of Internal Security
–Moshe ShahalLabor Party2622 November 199518 June 1996
7Avigdor KahalaniThird Way2718 June 19966 July 1999
8Shlomo Ben-AmiOne Israel286 July 19997 March 2001
9Uzi LandauLikud297 March 200128 February 2003
10Tzachi HanegbiLikud3028 February 20036 September 2004
11Gideon EzraLikud
Kadima		306 September 20044 May 2006Initially appointed Acting Minister, with position made permanent on 29 November 2004
12Avi DichterKadima314 May 20061 April 2009
13Yitzhak AharonovichYisrael Beiteinu32, 331 April 200914 May 2015
14Yariv LevinLikud3414 May 201525 May 2015
14Gilad ErdanLikud3425 May 201517 May 2020
15Amir OhanaLikud3517 May 202013 June 2021
16Omer Bar-LevLabor Party3613 June 2021

Deputy ministers
# Minister Party Government Term start Term end
1 Gideon Ezra Likud 29 7 March 2001 28 February 2003
2 Yaakov Edri Likud
Kadima		 30 10 March 2003 18 January 2006
3 Gadi Yevarkan Likud 35 17 May 2020 13 June 2021
4 Yoav Segalovich Yesh Atid 36 13 June 2021

Public Security Agencies

References
  1. "After year of deadlock and days of delays, Knesset swears in new Israeli government". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 13 May 2021.


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