The Labor, Welfare and Health Committee of the

Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...

deals with labor, employment and welfare matters, which operates continuously from the

first Knesset Constituent Assembly elections were held in newly independent Israel on 25 January 1949. Voter turnout was 86.9%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset (Hebrew: כ ...

until the dissolution of the

20th Knesset The members of the 20th Knesset were elected on 17 March 2015 and sworn in on 31 March 2015. Members of the Knesset Replacements The twentieth Knesset had the highest number of replacements in Israeli history, with at least 27 members leavi ...

. After not being filled during the 21st and 22nd Knessets due to the lack of a government, in the

23rd Knesset The members of the 23rd Knesset were elected on 2 March 2020. Members of the Knesset Replacements See also *Thirty-fifth government of Israel The thirty-fifth government of Israel ( he, מֶמְשֶׁלֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל הַש ...

, the Knesset plenum approved the proposal of the organizing committee to establish it as a special committee on welfare and labor that will operate until the establishment of the standing committees. The special committee was headed by

Aida Touma-Suleiman Aida Touma-Suleiman ( ar, عايدة توما سليمان, he, עָאִידָה תּוּמָא סֻלִימָאן; born 16 July 1964) is an Israeli Arab journalist and politician. She has been a member of the Knesset for Hadash since 2015. Bio ...

from the

Joint List The Joint List ( ar, القائمة المشتركة, ''al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah'', he, הָרְשִׁימָה הַמְּשֻׁתֶּפֶת, ''HaReshima HaMeshutefet'') was a political alliance of four of the Arab-Israeli, Arab-majority politi ...

, until

Haim Katz Haim Katz ( he, חַיִּים כַּץ, born 21 December 1947) is an Israeli politician. He currently serves as the Minister of Tourism. Katz was the Minister of Labor, Welfare and Social Services from 2015 to 2019, and served as a member of t ...

was elected to chair the committee. Following the formation of the

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, the committee was split - into the Labor and Welfare Committee, and the Health Committee. The chair of the Labor and Welfare Committee is Efrat Raytan from the Labor Party, and the chair of the Health Committee is

Idit Silman Idit Silman (, born 27 October 1980) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yamina from 2021 to 2022, and previously for the Union of Right-Wing Parties in 2019. She was the parliamentary whip of the coalition, befor ...

from

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party.

Chair

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