Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's commitment to the High Court, the government is due to approve this morning the appointments of five permanent ministers to government ministries whose ministers resigned around the last election campaign.

Ministers will be asked to approve the appointment of MK Eitan Ginzburg as Minister of Communications, the appointment of Hili Tropper to the Ministry of Science and Technology, Itzik Shmuli to the Ministry of Social Equality, Yoav Galant as Minister of Higher Education and Yuval Steinitz as Minister of Water.