The eighth government of Israel was formed by

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on 7 January 1958, and was the second government of the third Knesset. Ben-Gurion kept the same coalition partners as during the previous government, i.e.

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, the National Religious Party,

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, the Progressive Party, the

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and

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. The only change to the cabinet was the addition of Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir as a Deputy Minister. All ministers and deputy ministers from the National Religious Party left the cabinet on 1 July 1958. The government collapsed following Ben-Gurion's resignation on 5 July 1959 after Ahdut HaAvoda and Mapam voted against the government during a vote on selling arms to

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and then refused to resign from the government. New elections were called in November that year after Ben-Gurion told

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that he was unable to form a new government.1959 timeline
Jewish Agency for Israel

Cabinet members

¹ Although Sapir was not an MK during the third Knesset, he was later an MK for

. ² Carmel did not enter the Knesset until 9 June 1958.

References

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