Brig.-Gen. (res.) Binyamin Ben-Eliezer was Military Governor of Judea and Samaria and later Government Coordinator of Activities in the Administered Areas in the 1980s. Elected to the Knesset in 1984, Ben-Eliezer has served as Minister of Housing and Construction, Minister of Communications, Minister of Defense, and as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Infrastructures. He is currently a Labor MK.