Twenty-third government of Israel

{{Short description|1988–90 government led by Yitzhak Shamir}}

{{Infobox government cabinet

|cabinet_name = Third Shamir Cabinet

|cabinet_number = 23rd

|jurisdiction = Israel

|flag = Flag of Israel.svg

|flag_border = true

|date_formed = {{Start date|1988|12|22|df=y}}

|date_dissolved = {{End date|1990|06|11|df=y}}

|government_head = Yitzhak Shamir

|state_head = Chaim Herzog

|image = Yitzhak Shamir (1980).jpg

|legislature_status = National Unity Government

|political_parties = Likud
Alignment (until 15 March 1990)
Shas
National Religious Party
Agudat Yisrael
Degel HaTorah

|previous = 22nd Cabinet of Israel

|successor = 24th Cabinet of Israel

|legislature_term = 12th Knesset

|election = 1988 Israeli legislative election

|opposition_leader = Shulamit Aloni

}}

The twenty-third government of Israel was formed by Yitzhak Shamir of Likud on 22 December 1988, following the November 1988 elections. The government remained a national unity coalition between Likud and the Alignment, with the National Religious Party, Shas, Agudat Yisrael and Degel HaTorah also being members of the coalition. It was the first government to have a Minister of the Environment.

In 1990, after Shamir refused to accept a peace initiative developed by United States Secretary of State James Baker, the Alignment filed a motion of no-confidence in the government. Shamir fired all the Alignment ministers,[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1D6123DF937A25750C0A966958260&scp=166&sq=peres+shamir&st=nyt Israeli Coalition Dissolves In Fight Over Peace Plan] New York Times, 14 March 1990 but the vote was passed by 60–55, meaning that President Chaim Herzog had to ask one of the party leaders to form a new government. It was the first, and to date, only time which a government was brought down by a no confidence motion. Herzog initially asked Alignment leader Shimon Peres to form a new government, but after Peres was unable to, turned to Shamir, who successfully formed the twenty-fourth government on 11 June. The incident became known as the dirty trick.

Cabinet members

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:left"

|-

!Position

!Person

!colspan=2|Party

|-

|Prime Minister

|Yitzhak Shamir

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Acting Prime Minister

|Shimon Peres (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|rowspan=2|Deputy Prime Minister

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Yitzhak Navon (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Minister of Agriculture

|Avraham Katz-Oz (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Minister of Communications

|Gad Yaacobi (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Minister of Defense

|Yitzhak Rabin (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Minister of Economics and Planning

|Yitzhak Moda'i

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Minister of Education and Culture

|Yitzhak Navon (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Minister of Energy and Infrastructure

|Moshe Shahal (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|rowspan=2|Minister of the Environment

|Roni Milo (until 7 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Rafael Edri (7–15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Minister of Finance

|Shimon Peres (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Minister of Foreign Affairs

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Minister of Health

|Ya'akov Tzur (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Minister of Housing and Construction

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Minister of Immigrant Absorption

|Yitzhak Peretz

|style="background:{{party color|Shas}}|

|-

|rowspan=2|Minister of Industry and Trade

|Ariel Sharon (until 20 February 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Moshe Nissim (from 20 February 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Minister of Internal Affairs

|Not an MK ¹

|style="background:{{party color|Shas}}|

|-

|Minister of Justice

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|rowspan=2|{{nowrap|Minister of Labour and Social Welfare}}

|Yitzhak Shamir (until 7 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Roni Milo (from 7 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Minister of Police

|Haim Bar-Lev (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Minister of Religious Affairs

|Zevulun Hammer

|National Religious Party

|style="background:{{party color|National Religious Party}}|

|-

|Minister of Science and Development

|Ezer Weizman (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Minister of Tourism

|Avraham Sharir

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Minister of Transportation

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|rowspan=6|Minister without Portfolio

|Rafael Edri (until 7 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Moshe Nissim (until 7 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Mordechai Gur (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Avner Shaki (from 27 December 1988)

|National Religious Party

|style="background:{{party color|National Religious Party}}|

|-

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Deputy Minister of Finance

|Yossi Beilin (until 15 March 1990)

|style="background:{{party color|Alignment (political party)}}|

|-

|Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

|Benjamin Netanyahu

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs

|Rafael Pinhasi

|style="background:{{party color|Likud}}|

|-

|Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare

|Moshe Ze'ev Feldman

|Agudat Yisrael

|style="background:{{party color|Agudat Yisrael}}|

|}

¹ Although Deri was not a Knesset member at the time, he was a member of Shas.

References

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External links

[https://www.knesset.gov.il/govt/eng/GovtByNumber_eng.asp?govt=23 Tenth Knesset: Government 23] Knesset website

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