Prime Minister Netanyahu - 11 Consecutive Years

Another Milestone for Benjamin Netanyahu - 11 Consecutive Years as Prime Minister

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On March 31, 2009, ten years after leaving the Prime Minister's Office following his defeat by Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Prime Minister of Israel and has continued to serve in office continuously for the past eleven years. This tenure puts Netanyahu in second place among the current leaders of OECD countries, after Angela Merkel, who has served continuously since 2005.

If we extend the perspective to all the democratic leaders who have served since the end of World War II, Netanyahu is in 18th place.

Consecutive Terms of Prime Ministers, OECD Countries

	Prime Minister	Country	Consecutive Years	Consecutive # of Years
1	Taga Erlander	Sweden	1946 – 1969	23
2	Jean-Claude Juncker	Luxembourg	1995 – 2013	18.9
3	Robert Menzies	Australia	1949 – 1966	16.1
4	Helmut Kohl	Germany	1982 – 1998	16.1
5	Pierre Werner	Luxembourg	1959 – 1974	15.3
6	Angela Merkel	Germany	2005 –	14.3
7	Konrad Adenauer	Germany	1949 – 1963	14.1
8	Francois Mitterand	France	1981 – 1995	14
9	Felipe Gonzalez	Spain	1982 – 1996	13.4
10	David Oddsson	Iceland	1991 – 2004	13.4
11	Bruno Kreisky	Austria	1970 – 1983	13.1
12	Jacques Chirac	France	1995 – 2007	12
13	Ruud Lubbers	Netherlands	1982 – 1994	11.8
14	John Howard	Australia	1996 – 2007	11.7
15	Margaret Thatcher	Britain	1979 – 1990	11.6
16	Keith Holyoake	New Zealand	1960 – 1972	11.2
17	Pierre Trudeau	Canada	1968 – 1979	11.1
18	Benjamin Netanyahu	Israel	2009 –	11
19	Bertie Ahern	Ireland	1997 – 2008	10.9
20	Franz Vranitzky	Austria	1986 - 1997	10.6