Minister of Development (, Sar HaPituah) was a portfolio in the Israeli cabinet between 1953 and 1974. The ministry was responsible for government-owned mineral extraction companies and the country's geology institute. The department also set up both the quarry rehabilitation fund and the Dead Sea Works.
The post was scrapped in 1974, and succeeded three years later by the Energy and Infrastructure portfolio. Since 2005 there has also been a Minister for the Development of the Negev and Galilee.
List of ministers #MinisterPartyGovernmentTerm startTerm endNotes1Dov YosefMapai4, 5, 615 June 19533 November 19552Mordechai BentovMapam7, 8, 93 November 19552 November 19613Giora YoseftalMapai102 November 196123 August 1962Died in office4Yosef AlmogiMapai10, 11, 1230 October 196225 May 19655Haim Yosef ZadokMapai1231 May 196512 January 19666Moshe KolNot an MK13, 1412 January 196615 December 1969Member of the Independent Liberals, resigned from the Knesset when appointed minister in line with party policy7Haim LandauGahal1515 December 19696 August 19708Haim GvatiAlignment151 September 197010 March 19749Haim Bar-LevNot an MK1610 March 19743 June 1974Later elected to the next Knesset as a member of the Alignment.
Deputy ministers #MinisterPartyGovernmentTerm startTerm end1Yehuda Sha'ariIndependent Liberals13, 14
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