Netanyahu hands out additional ministries to Likud MKs; Miri Regev back at transportation

28 December 2022, 10:32 pm 1 Edit

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and then-culture minister Miri Regev in the Knesset on February 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu hands out additional ministerial posts to members of his Likud party.

MK Miri Regev will helm the Transportation Ministry, which she has previously led, and will be tasked with organizing the official commemoration of Israel’s 75th Independence Day next year. Regev similarly oversaw official state events when serving as culture minister from 2015 to 2020.

She will also be part of the high-level security cabinet.

Other appointments include Likud MK Ofir Akunis as science and technology minister and MK Miki Zohar as culture and sports minister.

MK Idit Silman, whose defection from the last coalition helped precipitate its collapse, is given the Environmental Protection Ministry.