Second Meir Cabinet
15th Cabinet of Israel
Date formed	15 December 1969 (1969-12-15)
Date dissolved	10 March 1974 (1974-03-10)
People and organisations
Head of state	Zalman Shazar (until 1973) Ephraim Katzir (from 1973)
Head of government	Golda Meir
Member parties	Alignment Gahal (until August 1970) National Religious Party Progress and Development Independent Liberals Cooperation and Brotherhood
Status in legislature	Coalition
Opposition leader	Yitzhak-Meir Levin (until 1970) Menachem Begin (from 1970)
History
Election	1969 Israeli legislative election
Legislature term	7th Knesset
Predecessor	14th Cabinet of Israel
Successor	16th Cabinet of Israel

The fifteenth government of Israel was formed by Golda Meir on 15 December 1969 following the October elections. The government was a continuation of the national unity government formed during the previous Knesset, and consisted of the Alignment, Gahal, the National Religious Party, the Independent Liberals and the Israeli Arab parties Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood. Gahal left the coalition in early August 1970 after the government agreed to accept the Rogers Plan.^[1]

The government remained in place until 10 March 1974, when the sixteenth government took power following the December 1973 elections. It is notable for being the first government to last a full four-year Knesset term, and the first to include any non-Jewish members; On 24 May 1971 Meir appointed Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi as Deputy Minister of Health, making him the first Israeli Arab to join the cabinet. In November that year, Druze MK Jabr Muadi also joined the cabinet as Deputy Minister of Communications.

Israeli government formation, December 1969

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Nominee Golda Meir Yitzhak-Meir Levin Party Alignment Agudat Yisrael Electoral vote 102 18 Percentage 85.0% 15.0%

Prime Minister before election Golda Meir Alignment Elected Prime Minister Golda Meir Alignment

¹ Although Barzilai, Shem-Tov, Peled were not MKs at the time all had previously been MKs for Mapam, one of the constituents of the Alignment.

² Died in office.

³ All National Religious Party MKs except Haim-Moshe Shapira and Michael Hasani resigned from the Knesset upon being appointed to the cabinet.

⁴ Yaakov-Shimshon Shapira was out of office between 13 June and 12 September 1972.

⁵ All Independent Liberal MKs resigned from the Knesset upon being appointed to the cabinet.

⁶ Bar-Lev was later an MK for the Alignment.

⁷ Dolchin and Weizman were Gahal members.

⁸ Goldschmidt was out of office between 16 and 19 July 1970.

• Seventh Knesset: Government 15 Knesset website