David Ben-Gurion made an attempt to form a minority government consisting of Mapai and Sephardim and Oriental Communities on 17 October, but it was not approved by the Knesset.

Two days later President Chaim Weizmann asked Progressive Party leader Pinchas Rosen to form a government,[1] but it was Ben-Gurion who finally managed to do so on 1 November 1950.

The coalition partners were the same as in the first government: Mapai, the United Religious Front, the Progressive Party, the Sephardim and Oriental Communities and the Democratic List of Nazareth.

Ya'akov Geri was appointed Minister of Trade and Industry despite not being a Member of the Knesset.

The government resigned on 14 February 1951 after the Knesset had rejected David Remez's proposals on the registration of schoolchildren.