{"slug": "prime-minister-of-israel", "label": "Prime Minister of Israel", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208487", "qid": "Q208487", "description": "head of government of Israel", "entries": 19, "years": 17, "span": [1886, 2025], "span_label": ["1886 CE", "2025 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 8}, {"title": "Births", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}], "also_known_as": ["Israel's Prime Minister", "Israeli PM", "Israeli Prime Minister", "Israeli prime minister"], "related": [{"slug": "nobel-peace-prize", "label": "Nobel Peace Prize", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "david-ben-gurion", "label": "David Ben-Gurion", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "benjamin-netanyahu", "label": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "israel", "label": "Israel", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "buenos-aires", "label": "Buenos Aires", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nazi-germany", "label": "Nazi Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hungary", "label": "Hungary", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "budapest", "label": "Budapest", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "international-criminal-court", "label": "International Criminal Court", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1886, "year_label": "1886 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – David Ben-Gurion, Polish-born first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679431#September–October", "title": "1886", "revid": 1372679431, "section": "Births › September–October"}}, {"year": 1913, "year_label": "1913 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 – Menachem Begin, Polish-born 6th Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373505613#August", "title": "1913", "revid": 1373505613, "section": "Births › August"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#March", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Births › March"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "March 1", "text": "1 March – Yitzhak Rabin, Fifth Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1995).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364239445#Births", "title": "1922 in Mandatory Palestine", "revid": 1364239445, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 2", "text": "August 2 – Shimon Peres, 8th Prime Minister of Israel, 9th President of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2016)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367772921#August", "title": "1923", "revid": 1367772921, "section": "Births › August"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "February 26", "text": "February 26 – Ariel Sharon, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2014)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#February", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Births › February"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 12", "text": "12 February – Ehud Barak, the 13th Chief of Staff of the IDF and former Prime Minister of Israel", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373243944#Notable_births", "title": "1942 in Mandatory Palestine", "revid": 1373243944, "section": "Notable births"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 25", "text": "January 25 – In the first Israeli elections, David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370167995#January", "title": "1949", "revid": 1370167995, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 11", "text": "May 11 – In Buenos Aires, four Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi German war criminal Adolf Eichmann in order that he can be taken to Israel and put on trial. This is announced on May 23 by Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#May", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1963, "year_label": "1963 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 26", "text": "26 June – Levi Eshkol is elected Prime Minister of Israel. The 11th Government is approved that day and the members are sworn in.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318407271#Events", "title": "1963 in Israel", "revid": 1318407271, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1973, "year_label": "1973 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 1", "text": "December 1 – David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373239256#December", "title": "1973", "revid": 1373239256, "section": "Deaths › December"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 9", "text": "March 9 – Menachem Begin, 78, Israeli politician, prime minister (1977–1983), Nobel Prize recipient (1978), heart attack.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363642812", "title": "Deaths in March 1992", "revid": 1363642812, "section": "Deaths › March"}}, {"year": 2001, "year_label": "2001 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 6", "text": "February 6 – 2001 Israeli prime ministerial election: Ariel Sharon of the Likud party is elected Prime Minister of Israel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373523156#February", "title": "2001", "revid": 1373523156, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2014, "year_label": "2014 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 11", "text": "January 11 – Ariel Sharon, 85, Israeli politician and general, Minister of Defense (1981–1983), Prime Minister (2001–2006), heart failure.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373607681", "title": "Deaths in January 2014", "revid": 1373607681, "section": "Deaths › January"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 20", "text": "April 20 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Alliance leader Benny Gantz agree on a deal to form a unity government, thus ending more than a year of political deadlock. As part of the deal, Netanyahu will hold onto his position for 18 more months, with Gantz replacing him afterwards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371633312#April", "title": "2020", "revid": 1371633312, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2021, "year_label": "2021 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 13", "text": "June 13 – Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving prime minister of Israel, is voted out of office; Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid are sworn in as Prime Minister of Israel and as Alternate Prime Minister of Israel, respectively.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372689859#June", "title": "2021", "revid": 1372689859, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – Yair Lapid succeeds Naftali Bennett as Prime Minister of Israel, while Bennett succeeds Lapid as Alternate Prime Minister of Israel; this arrangement had been created after the 2021 Israeli legislative election, in which no party won an outright majority.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#July", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – 2022 Israeli legislative election: A bloc of right-wing and far-right political parties led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins a 64-seat majority (out of 120), allowing him to be sworn in as Prime Minister of Israel for a third time in December.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#November", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2025, "year_label": "2025 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 3", "text": "April 3 – Hungary withdraws from the International Criminal Court after Israeli Prime Minister and accused war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest for a state visit, in defiance of the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372865033#April", "title": "2025", "revid": 1372865033, "section": "Events › April"}}]}