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14 Jun, 7 tweets, 2 min read
The 36th government of the State of Israel.
The new government has nine female ministers, a record for Israel (out of 27 total).
Six ministers in the new government wear a kippa.

Two are not Jewish.
Five of the ministers were born outside of Israel:

- 3 in the former Soviet Union
- 1 in Morocco
- 1 in Ethiopia
Nachman Shai, the oldest minister in the new government (74), was born in the British Mandate of Palestine before the State of Israel was established.
*correction, IDI said there were 6 kippa wearers, I thought they meant Hendel, who grew up religious, but they may have meant Kariv, who wasn't a minister in the end.

So 5 kippa wearers it is.

en.idi.org.il/articles/34687
I regret to inform you that there are no mustaches in the new government.

Only two ministers have any facial hair: Avigdor Liberman and Meir Cohen.

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