Alternate Prime Minister of Israel

Alternate Prime Minister of Israel רֹאשׁ הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה הַחֲלִיפִי
Emblem of Israel
Incumbent Vacant since 29 December 2022
Nominator	Knesset
Appointer	President
Inaugural holder	Benny Gantz
Formation	17 May 2020; 4 years ago (2020-05-17)

The alternate prime minister of Israel (Hebrew: ראש הממשלה החליפי, romanized: Rosh ha-memshela ha-ḥalifi)^{[note 1]} is the de facto deputy of the prime minister of Israel and the second highest ranking cabinet minister. His job is to replace the prime minister of Israel in a rotation government.

List of Alternate Prime Ministers

De facto

No.	Portrait	Minister	Party	Government	Term start	Term end	Notes
N/A		Yitzhak Shamir	Likud Herut	21	13 September 1984	20 October 1986	Shamir was prime minister-designate in a rotation government with Shimon Peres. The rotation deal was not binding as no legally-entrenched rotation mechanism existed at the time, and the de jure post held by Shamir was that of an ordinary designated acting prime minister.
N/A		Shimon Peres	Alignment Labor Party	22	20 October 1986	22 December 1988	Shamir became prime minister on 20 October 1986, with Peres as his alternate, in accordance with the 1984 rotation deal. The rotation deal was not legally binding as no legally-entrenched rotation mechanism existed at the time, and the de jure post held by Peres was that of an ordinary designated acting prime minister.

De jure

No.	Portrait	Minister	Party	Government	Term start	Term end	Notes
1		Benny Gantz	Blue and White Resilience Party	35	17 May 2020	13 June 2021	Gantz was prime minister-designate in an alternation government with Benjamin Netanyahu, and he would have come into office on 17 November 2021. In December 2020, the coalition collapsed, and was replaced by a new government on 13 June 2021.
2		Yair Lapid	Yesh Atid	36	13 June 2021	30 June 2022	Lapid was prime minister-designate in an alternation government with Naftali Bennett. He was expected to come into office on 27 August 2023 before the Knesset dissolved itself in June 2022. He took over as Prime Minister on 1 July 2022.
3		Naftali Bennett	Yamina	36	1 July 2022	29 December 2022	Bennett became Alternate Prime Minister after the early dissolution of the Knesset in June 2022, switching places with Yair Lapid.

Notes

1. While the Basic Law passed on 7 May 2020 used the phrasing "חלופי",^[1] the Academy of the Hebrew Language published on 11 May an article explaining that the proper Hebrew phrasing is "חליפי"^[2]

References

1. Basic Law: The Government (in Hebrew). Retrieved 10 June 2020
2. "חלופי, חליפי, חילופי". Academy of the Hebrew Language (in Hebrew). 11 May 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.