Members of the first Knesset

Members of the first Knesset

The following were members of Israel's first Knesset Assembly.

Mapai (46)

* Meir Argov
* Ami Assaf
* Zalman Aran
* Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
* Aryeh Bahir
* David Bar-Rav-Hai
* Yosef Beretz
* Chaim Ben-Asher
* David Ben-Gurion
* Shmuel Dayan
* Ben-Zion Dinor
* Hasya Drori
* Yechiel Duvdevani
* Yosef Efrati
* Heshel Frumkin (replaced by Jenia Taversky on 5/2/1951)
* Shraga Goren
* Akiva Govrin
* Israel Guri
* Eliyahu Hacarmeli
* David Hacohen
* Netta Harpaz
* Avraham Herzfeld
* Abba Hushi (replaced by Baruch Osnia on 12/2/1951)
* Beba Idelson
* Eliezer Kaplan
* Yona Kesse
* Yosef-Michael Lamm (replaced by Refael Bash on 21/5/1951)
* Shlomo Lavi
* Pinhas Lavon
* Eliezer Livna
* Ada Maimon
* Golda Meir
* Peretz Naftali
* Devorah Netzer
* David Remez (replaced by Menahem Cohen on 19/5/1951)
* Moshe Sharett
* Zalman Shazar
* Aryeh Sheftel (replaced by Yisrael Yeshayahu on 12/2/1951)
* Reuven Sheri
* Yosef Sprinzak
* Yizhar Smilansky
* Yehudit Simhoni (replaced by Herzel Berger on 5/2/1951)
* Ephraim Taburi
* Avraham Taviv (replaced by Yitzhak Kanav on 20/4/1950)
* Zvi Yehuda
* Dov (Bernard) Yosef

Mapam (19)

* Moshe Aram
* Menahem Bader
* Dov Bar-Nir (replaced by Menachem Ratzon on 10/4/1951)
* Israel Bar-Yehuda
* Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
* Mordechai Bentov
* Yaakov Chazan
* Israel Galili
* Fayge Ilanit
* Hannah Lamdan
* Nahum Nir
* Eliezer Peri
* Berl Repetur
* Yaakov Riftin
* Hanan Rubin
* Moshe Sneh
* Yitzhak Tabankin (replaced by David Livschitz on 12/4/1951)
* Meir Yaari
* Aharon Zisling

United Religious Front (16)

* Yosef Burg
* Moshe Kelmer (replaced by Eliyahu Mazor on 11/3/1949)
* Eliyahu-Moshe Ganchovsky
* Avraham-Yehuda Goldrat
* Aharon-Yaakov Greenberg
* Kalman Kahana
* Meir-David Levenstein
* Yitzhak-Meir Levin
* Yehuda Leib Maimon
* Benjamin Mintz
* Mordechai Nurock
* David-Zvi Pinkas
* Avraham-Haim Shag
* Haim-Moshe Shapira
* Moshe Unna
* Zerach Warhaftig


= Herut Movement (14) =

* Menahem Begin
* Yohanan Bader
* Aryeh Ben-Eliezer
* Haim Cohen-Meguri
* Uri-Zvi Greenberg
* Ari Jabotinsky ²
* Shmuel Katz
* Hillel Kook ²
* Haim Landau
* Eliyahu Lankin
* Yaakov Meridor
* Shmuel Merlin
* Avraham Rakanti
* Esther Raziel-Naor

General Zionists (7)

* Peretz Bernstein
* Yaacov Gil (Lifschitz)
* Yaakov Klivnov
* Shoshana Parsitz
* Israel Rokach
* Yosef Sapir
* Yosef Serlin


= Progressive Party (5) =

* Idov Cohen
* Yeshayahu Forder
* Avraham Granot
* Yizhar Harari
* Pinchas Rosen

Maki (4)

* Shmuel Mikunis
* Eliezer Preminger ¹
* Tawfik Toubi
* Meir Vilner

Sephardim and Oriental Communities (4)

* Moshe Ben-Ami
* Eliahu Eliashar
* Avraham Elmalich
* Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit

Democratic List of Nazareth (2)

* Seif-El-Din El-Zubi
* Amin-Salim Jarjora

Fighters' List (1)

* Natan Yellin-Mor

Yemenite Association (1)

* Zecharia Glosca


= WIZO (1) =

* Rachel Cohen-Kagan

¹ Eliezer Preminger left Maki, set up the Hebrew Communists and then joined Mapam

² Ari Jabotinsky and Hillel Kook left the Herut Movement

ee also

*Knesset
*List of Knesset speakers
*List of political parties in Israel
*List of Israelis
*List of Likud Knesset Members
*Prime Minister of Israel
*President of Israel
*Politics of Israel

External links

* [http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindexbyknesset_eng.asp?knesset=1 Members of the First Knesset on the official Knesset website (in English)]


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