Meir Sheetrit

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Meir Sheetrit
Date of birth	10 October 1948
Year of Aliyah	1957
Knesset(s)	10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th (current)
Party	Kadima
Former parties	Likud
Gov't roles (current in bold)	Minister of the Interior Minister of Housing & Construction Minister of Finance Minister of Justice Minister of Transportation Minister of Education, Culture & Sport

Meir Sheetrit (Hebrew: מאיר שטרית‎, born 10 October 1948) is an Israeli politician, Knesset member, and has been Minister of the Interior since 4 July 2007. He also served as Acting Justice Minister for three months in 2006.

Sheetrit was born in Ksar Souk (now Errachidia), in Morocco, in 1957 his family immigrated to Israel. Sheetrit holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from Bar-Ilan University. Sheetrit is married and is a father to two children. He began his political career in 1974 when he was elected as the mayor of the city of Yavne and served until 1987. Sheetrit was elected to the Israeli Knesset in 1981 and served as a member until 1988 and again from 1992 to the present. In 1988 he was elected as treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Israel and served in this position until 1992. In 1996 Sheetrit was elected as the chairman of the political coalition and of the Likud fraction in the Knesset. In 1998 he was appointed by then Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu Finance Minister. In 2001 he was appointed Justice Minister. In 2003, he was appointed as Treasury Minister (a Minister in the Finance Ministry; in effect, a type of Deputy Finance Minister), led by then Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who was spearheading a sweeping and highly unpopular policy of privatization reform, supported by Sheetrit. He was appointed Minister of Transportation in 2004, and later served as minister of Education, Culture and Sport until 2006.

With the formation of the Kadima party in 2005, headed by Ariel Sharon, Sheetrit quit the Likud and joined the newly formed party. He was elected to the 17th Knesset in 2006 on the Kadima ticket. As of May 4, 2006, he is the Minister of Construction and Housing. From August 23 through November 29, 2006, he also served as Acting Justice Minister, following Haim Ramon's resignation on 18 August over an Indecent assault indictment. Sheetrit was replaced in the justice portfolio by Vice Prime Minister Tzipi Livni, who also continues to serve as Foreign Minister. As part of a cabinet reshuffle in July 2007 he left the Housing and Construction Ministry and became Minister of the Interior.

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v • d • e Education Ministers of Israel Zalman Shazar (1949-50) • David Remez (1950-51) • David Ben-Gurion (1951) • Ben-Zion Dinur (1951-55) • Zalman Aran (1955-60) • Abba Eban (1960-63) • Zalman Aran (1963-69) • Yigal Allon (1969-74) • Aharon Yadlin (1974-77) • Zevulun Hammer (1977-84) • Yitzhak Navon (1984-90) • Zevulun Hammer (1990-92) • Shulamit Aloni (1992-93) • Yitzhak Rabin (1993) • Amnon Rubinstein (1993-96) • Zevulun Hammer (1996-98) • Yitzhak Levy (1998-99) • Yossi Sarid (1999-2000) • Ehud Barak (2000-01) • Limor Livnat (2001-06) • Meir Sheetrit (2006) • Yuli Tamir (2006-date)

v • d • e Justice Ministers of Israel Pinchas Rosen (1948-51) · Dov Yosef (1951-52) · Haim Cohen (1952) · Pinchas Rosen (1952-56) · David Ben-Gurion (1956-58) · Pinchas Rosen (1958-61) · Dov Yosef (1961-66) · Yaakov Shimshon Shapiro (1966-72) · Golda Meir (1972) · Yaakov Shimshon Shapiro (1972-73) · Golda Meir (1973-74) · Haim Yosef Tzadok (1974-77) · Menachem Begin (1977) · Shmuel Tamir (1977-80) · Moshe Nissim (1980-86) · Yitzhak Moda'i (1986) · Avraham Sharir (1986-88) · Dan Meridor (1988-92) · David Libai (1992-96) · Yaakov Neeman (1996) · Benjamin Netanyahu (1996) · Tzachi Hanegbi (1996-99) · Yossi Beilin (1999-2001) · Meir Sheetrit (2001-2003) · Tommy Lapid (2003-04) · Tzipi Livni (2004-06)* · Haim Ramon (2006) · Meir Sheetrit (2006)* · Ehud Olmert (2006)* · Tzipi Livni (2006-07) · Daniel Friedmann (2007-present) * - Entire or partial tenure as Substitute Justice Minister, until a replacement was found

v • d • e Transportation Ministers of Israel David Remez (1948-50) • Dov Yosef (1950-51) • David-Zvi Pinkas (1951-52) • David Ben-Gurion (1952) • Yosef Serlin (1952-53) • Yosef Sapir (1953-55) • Zalman Aran (1955) • Moshe Carmel (1955-59) • Yitzhak Ben-Aharon (1959-62) • Israel Bar-Yehuda (1962-65) • Moshe Carmel (1965-69) • Ezer Weizman (1969-70) • Shimon Peres (1970-74) • Aharon Yariv (1974) • Gad Yaacobi (1974-77) • Menachem Begin (1977) • Meir Amit (1977-78) • Haim Landau (1979-1981) • Haim Corfu (1981-88) • Moshe Katsav (1988-92) • Israel Kessar (1992-96) • Yitzhak Levy (1996-1998) • Shaul Yahalom (1998-1999) • Yitzhak Mordechai (1999-2000) • Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (2000-01) • Efraim Sneh (2001-2002) • Ariel Sharon (2002) • Tzachi Hanegbi (2002-03) • Avigdor Lieberman (2003-2004) • Meir Sheetrit (2004-2006) • Shaul Mofaz (2006-date)