Twenty-eighth government of Israel

Barak cabinet

28th Cabinet of Israel
Date formed6 July 1999 (1999-07-06)
Date dissolved7 March 2001 (2001-03-07)
People and organisations
Head of stateEzer Weizman (until 13 July 2000)
Moshe Katzav (after 13 July 2000)
Head of governmentEhud Barak
Member partiesOne Israel
Centre Party
Gesher
Shas
Meretz
National Religious Party
Yisrael BaAliyah
United Torah Judaism (until September 1999)
Status in legislatureCoalition government
Opposition leaderAriel Sharon
History
Election1999
Legislature term15th Knesset
Predecessor27th government
Successor29th government

The twenty-eighth government of Israel was formed by Ehud Barak of One Israel on 6 July 1999 after his victory in the May election for Prime Minister. Alongside One Israel (an alliance of the Labor Party, Meimad and Gesher), Barak included Shas, Meretz, Yisrael BaAliyah, the Centre Party, the National Religious Party and United Torah Judaism in his coalition. The parties formed a center-left coalition.[1] United Torah Judaism left the government in September 1999 due to a dispute over the transport of a turbine on Shabbat.[2]

Following the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the government began to fall apart. Barak called a special election for Prime Minister in February 2001, which he lost to Likud leader Ariel Sharon. Sharon went on to form the twenty-ninth government on 7 March.

Israeli government formation, 1999

← 1996 6 July 1999 2001 →
 
Nominee Ehud Barak Benjamin Netanyahu
Party One Israel Likud
Popular vote 1,791,020 1,402,474
Percentage 56.1% 43.9%

Prime Minister before election

Benjamin Netanyahu
Likud

Elected Prime Minister

Ehud Barak
One Israel

  1. ^ Shmuel Sandler, Manfred Gerstenfeld & Hillel Frisch, ed. (2011). Israel at the Polls 2009. Routledge. p. 111. The same factors apparently explain the zigzagging in IB's political tactics. In the 1999 elections, the party received four Knesset seats. It joined the right-wing National Union bloc in opposition to Ehud Barak's centre-left government.
  2. ^ Factional and Government Make-Up of the Fifteenth Knesset Knesset website