The government will convene on Tuesday for a meeting in which it will approve the composition of the ministers who will make up the political-security cabinet, as well as the chairmanship of the Shin Bet Affairs Committee.
In addition to the ministers who are required to be members of it by law - the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of National Security - the political-security cabinet will also include Ministers Aryeh Deri, Avi Dichter, Ron Dermer, Yisrael Katz and Miri Regev.
The ministers will be asked to approve a motion stipulating that Minister Yariv Levin will chair the Shin Bet Affairs Committee, and not Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel, who entered the government at the last minute.
The government will also approve six deputy ministers: Avi Maoz (Noam), Moshe Arbel (Shas), Moshe Abutbul (Shas), Yaakov Tesler (United Torah Judaism), Uri Maklev (United Torah Judaism) and Michal Woldiger (Religious Zionist Party). The proposal brought before the government states that, according to the estimate of the Ministry of Finance, the budget cost for each deputy minister is estimated at 2.6 million shekels per year.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed the appointments of May Golan from the Likud and Almog Cohen from Otzma Yehudit to the position of deputy ministers in the Prime Minister's Office. This is due to the fact that the law allows two deputy ministers to be appointed in the Prime Minister's Office, while Netanyahu appointed four.
Likud is considering appointing the two to other ministries or changing the Basic Law so that there is no limit on the allocation, which would require a postponement of their appointment until the legislation is completed.