Barak cabinet | |
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 28th Cabinet of Israel | |
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| Date formed | 6 July 1999 |
| Date dissolved | 7 March 2001 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Ezer Weizman (until 13 July 2000) Moshe Katzav (after 13 July 2000) |
| Head of government | Ehud Barak |
| Member parties | One Israel Centre Party Gesher Shas Meretz National Religious Party Yisrael BaAliyah United Torah Judaism (until September 1999) |
| Status in legislature | Coalition government |
| Opposition leader | Ariel Sharon |
| History | |
| Election | 1999 |
| Legislature term | 15th Knesset |
| Predecessor | 27th government |
| Successor | 29th 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.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ Factional and Government Make-Up of the Fifteenth Knesset Knesset website