List of heads of government of Yisrael
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This is a list of the Presidents of Yisrael. The President of Yisrael is the head of government of the Kingdom of Yisrael, indirectly elected to a four-year term by district-level constituencies through the Electoral College. The officeholder co-leads the executive branch of the Government of Yisrael alongside the King of Yisrael, who is the head of state.
For the previous iteration of this office in the early constitutional period, the Prime Ministership of Yisrael, see below under Prime Ministers of Yisrael, and for the head of government under the Autocracy of Yisrael, see under Chancellors of Yisrael.
Presidents (1952 - present)
Constitutional Liberal Party (8) Royalist Conservative Party (7) Independent (1) | ||||||||
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Presidency | President | Prior office | Party | Election | Vice-President | Length of term | ||
1 | March 3, 1952 – January 31, 1960 |
File:??? | Asher Berkowitz 1898-1971 (73) |
Acting Prime Minister of the Provisional Governing Council | Constitutional Liberal | 1952 (special national referendum) | Aaron Barkan | 7 years, 11 months |
1956 | ||||||||
2 | January 31, 1960 – January 15, 1964 |
File:??? | Aaron Barkan 1904-1979 (75) |
1st Vice-President of Yisrael |
Constitutional Liberal | 1960 | Yitzchok Bar-Lev | 3 years, 11 months, 16 days |
3 | January 15, 1964 – January 31, 1968 |
File:??? | Nosson Zadlec 1916-1983 (67) |
Governor of the Central District | Royalist Conservative | 1964 | Zachariah Bloomberg | 4 years, 16 days |
4 | January 31, 1968 – April 18, 1974 |
File:TBD | Boaz Benayoun 1919-1974 (65) |
Knesset Majority Leader and MK from Dervaylik | Constitutional Liberal | 1968 | Tal Habbad | 6 years, 2 months, 19 days |
1972 | ||||||||
5 | April 18, 1974 – January 4, 1976 |
File:??? | Tal Habbad 1921-1985 (64) |
Vice-President under Boaz Benayoun | Constitutional Liberal | None (assumed office by laws of presidential succession) |
Ozriel Gebroks | 1 year, 8 months, 14 days |
6 | January 4, 1976 – January 5, 1984 |
File:??? | Binyamin Schwartz 1937-present (87) |
Governor of Yerushalayim | Royalist Conservative | 1976 | Michoel Citron | 8 years, 1 day |
1980 | ||||||||
7 | January 5, 1984 – January 20, 1988 |
File:??? | Michoel Citron 1941-present (83) |
Vice-President under Binyamin Schwartz | Royalist Conservative | 1984 | Yossi Feigelbaum | 4 years, 15 days |
8 | January 20, 1988 – January 6, 1992 |
File:???.png | Yosef Aronov 1938-2005 (67) |
Foreign Minister under Tal Habbad | Constitutional Liberal | 1988 | Itai Gabor | 3 years, 11 months, 14 days |
9 | January 6, 1992 – January 22, 1996 |
File:???.png | Kabi Arad 1948-present (76) |
Governor of the Western District | Constitutional Liberal | 1992 | Moshe Fink | 4 years, 16 days |
10 | January 22, 1996 – July 7, 1997 |
File:???.png | Adom Greenbaum 1935-2011 (76) |
Knesset Minority Leader | Royalist Conservative | 1996 | Yanky Fishbein | 1 year, 6 months, 16 days |
11 | July 7, 1997 – January 9, 2000 |
File:???.png | Yanky Fishbein 1945-2019 (74) |
Vice-President under Adom Greenbaum | Royalist Conservative | None (assumed office by laws of presidential succession) |
Noam Itzchak | 2 years, 6 months, 2 days |
12 | January 9, 2000 – November 23, 2002 |
File:???.png | Naor Hillel 1939-2020 (81) |
Member of Knesset from Dervaylik | Constitutional Liberal | 2000 | Ariel Halevi | 2 years, 10 months, 14 days |
13 | November 23, 2002 – January 25, 2004 |
File:???.png | Ariel Halevi 1963-present (61) |
Vice-President under Naor Hillel | Independent | None (assumed office by laws of presidential succession) |
Yuval Luzzatto | 1 years, 9 months, 29 days |
14 | January 25, 2004 – January 30, 2012 |
Eitan Herzog 1960-present (64) |
Governor of the Eastern District | Constitutional Liberal | 2004 | Joshua Lieberman | 8 years, 5 days | |
2008 | ||||||||
15 | January 30, 2012 – February 3, 2020 |
Noah Feldman 1959-present (65) |
Governor of the Western District | Royalist Conservative | 2012 | Joseph Sayegh | 8 years, 4 days | |
2016 | ||||||||
16 | February 3, 2020 – Incumbent |
Yitzchok Katz 1967-present (57) |
Foreign Minister under Noah Feldman | Royalist Conservative | 2020 | Gershon Blau | 4 years, 295 days |