Chaim Weizmann – first President of Israel (1949–52) Yitzhak Ben-Zvi – first elected/second president President of Israel (1952–63) David Ben-Gurion – first Prime Minister of Israel (1948–54, 1955–63) Moshe Sharett – prime minister (1954–55) Levi Eshkol – prime minister (1963–69) Golda Meir – prime minister (1969–74) Yitzhak Rabin – prime minister (1974–77, 1992–95); Nobel Peace Prize (1994) (assassinated November 1995) Menachem Begin – prime minister (1977–83); Nobel Peace Prize (1978) Yitzhak Shamir – prime minister (1983–84, 1986–92) Shimon Peres – President of Israel (2007–2014); prime minister (1984–86, 1995–96); Nobel Peace Prize (1994) Benjamin Netanyahu – prime minister (1996–99), (2009–); was minister of finance; Likud party chairman Ehud Barak – prime minister (1999–01) Ariel Sharon – prime minister (2001–06) Ehud Olmert – prime minister (2006–09); former mayor of Jerusalem Rehavam Zeevi – founder of the Moledet party (assassinated October 2001) Yossi Beilin – leader of the Meretz-Yachad party and peace negotiator Yosef Lapid – former leader of the Shinui party Teddy Kollek – former mayor of Jerusalem Shulamit Aloni - former minister Shelly Yachimovich - former leader of the opposition Miriam Feirberg Yael German Gilad Erdan