the 1988 elections, Tehiya were again excluded from the governing coalition. Ne'eman resigned from the Knesset on 31 January 1990 and was replaced by Gershon Shafat. However, Tehiya joined the government in June after the Alignment had left, and he was appointed Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and Minister of Science and Technology despite not retaking his seat in the Knesset. He lost his ministerial position following the 1992 elections and did not return to politics. Death He died at age 80, on 26 April 2006 in the Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, from a stroke. He left a wife, Dvora; a son and daughter; and a sister, Ruth Ben-Yisrael. See also List of Israel Prize recipients References External links Jerusalem Post obituary Yuval Ne'eman's papers in the INSPIRE-HEP database Jewish Physicists list 1925 births 2006 deaths People from Tel Aviv Jews in Mandatory Palestine Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium alumni Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Haganah members Israeli soldiers Israeli Jews Presidents of universities in Israel Jewish scientists Particle physicists Israeli physicists Israeli nuclear physicists Academic staff of Tel Aviv University Israel Prize in exact science recipients Israel Prize in exact science recipients who were physicists EMET Prize recipients in the Exact Sciences Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Tehiya leaders Founding members of the World Cultural Council Space program of Israel Jewish physicists Jewish Israeli politicians Members of the 10th Knesset (1981–1984) Members of the 11th Knesset (1984–1988) Members of the 12th Knesset (1988–1992) Fellows of the American Physical Society Burials at Trumpeldor Cemetery Leaders of the Opposition (Israel) Ministers of Energy of Israel Ministers of Infrastructure of Israel Ministers of Science of Israel