Israel Government Graph

Method and Status Definitions

Structure from the Basic Laws (consolidated English text at constituteproject.org) and founding statutes, named on each node. Officeholders researched live on September 25, 2026, each with sources.

This graph models the State of Israel as institutions, positions and typed relationships (appoints, confirms, elects, commands, vets, sponsors, parallel to). Israel has no single constitution, so legal anchors name the Basic Law and section in the node text. Knesset factions are modelled as nodes so that the coalition's hold on the Government, and the rabbinical councils and settler bodies that instruct parts of it, appear as edges rather than footnotes.

Verified means two independent source families agree (official gov.il, knesset.gov.il, idf.il or boi.org.il pages; named press). Single source means one family only. Acting, vacant and unconfirmed are shown as such rather than filled with a guess.

Timing matters: the election for the 26th Knesset is on October 27, 2026, so every political holder and every faction seat count is a snapshot of the 25th Knesset and the 37th Government. The Haredi walkouts of June and July 2025 left several portfolios with Likud caretakers; the State Comptroller post has been vacant since July 3, 2026 pending a court-ordered repeat vote; the Attorney General remains in office after the High Court annulled her dismissal.

Parallel and quasi-state structures include the national institutions (WZO Settlement Division, Jewish Agency, KKL-JNF) recognised by the 1952 Status Law and funded partly by the state, the Histadrut, the Yesha Council, and the rabbinical councils whose rulings bind Shas and UTJ. They are modelled because they allocate land, budgets and votes without being part of the Government.

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