List of members of the first Knesset
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The 120 members of the first Knesset were elected on 25 January 1949. The breakdown by party was as follows:
- Mapai: 46
- Mapam: 19 (gained one member during the Knesset term)
- United Religious Front: 16
- Herut: 14 (lost two members during the Knesset term)
- General Zionists: 7
- Progressive Party: 5
- Sephardim and Oriental Communities: 4
- Maki: 4 (lost one member during the Knesset term)
- Democratic List of Nazareth: 2
- Fighters' List: 1
- WIZO: 1
- Yemenite Association: 1
Members of the Knesset
{| class="sort wikitable sortable"
! colspan=2 | Party
! Name
! Note
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Mapai}}" rowspan=46 |
| rowspan=46 | Mapai (46)
| Meir Argov ||
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| Ami Assaf ||
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| Zalman Aran ||
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| Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ||
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| Aryeh Bahir ||
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| David Bar-Rav-Hai ||
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| Yosef Beretz ||
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| Haim Ben-Asher ||
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| David Ben-Gurion || Prime Minister, Minister of Defense
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| Shmuel Dayan ||
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| Ben-Zion Dinor ||
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| Hasya Drori ||
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| Yehiel Duvdevani ||
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| Yosef Efrati ||
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| Heshel Frumkin || Replaced by Jenia Tversky on 5/2/1951
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| Shraga Goren ||
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| Akiva Govrin ||
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| Yisrael Guri ||
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| Eliyahu Hacarmeli ||
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| David Hacohen ||
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| Neta Harpaz ||
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| Avraham Herzfeld ||
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| Abba Hushi || Replaced by Baruch Osnia on 12/2/1951
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| Beba Idelson ||
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| Eliezer Kaplan || Minister of Finance, Minister of Trade and Industry
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| Yona Kesse ||
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| Yosef-Michael Lamm || Replaced by Rafael Bash on 21/5/1951
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| Shlomo Lavi ||
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| Pinhas Lavon || Minister of Agriculture (second government)
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| Eliezer Livna ||
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| Ada Maimon ||
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| Golda Meir||Minister of Labour and Social Security
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| Peretz Naftali ||
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| Dvora Netzer ||
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| David Remez || Minister of Transportation (first government), Minister of Education and Culture (second government), replaced by Menachem Cohen on 19/5/1951
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| Moshe Sharett || Minister of Foreign Affairs
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| Zalman Shazar || Minister of Education and Culture (first government)
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| Aryeh Sheftel || Replaced by Yisrael Yeshayahu on 12/2/1951
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| Reuven Shari || Deputy Minister of Transportation (second government)
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| Yosef Sprinzak ||
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| Yizhar Smilansky ||
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| Yehudit Simhonit || Replaced by Herzl Berger on 5/2/1951
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| Efraim Taburi ||
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| Avraham Taviv || Replaced by Yitzhak Kanav on 20/4/1950
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| Zvi Yehuda ||
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| Dov Yosef || Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Rationing and Supply (first government), Minister of Transportation (second government)
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Mapam}}" rowspan=19 |
| rowspan=19 | Mapam (19)
| Moshe Aram ||
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| Menachem Bader ||
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| Dov Bar-Nir || Replaced by Menachem Ratzon on 10/4/1951
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| Yisrael Bar-Yehuda ||
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| Yitzhak Ben-Aharon ||
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| Mordechai Bentov ||
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| Yaakov Hazan ||
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| Yisrael Galili ||
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| Fayge Ilanit ||
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| Hannah Lamdan ||
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| Nahum Nir ||
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| Eliezer Peri ||
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| Berl Repetur ||
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| Ya'akov Riftin ||
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| Hanan Rubin ||
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| Moshe Sneh ||
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| Yitzhak Tabenkin || Replaced by David Livschitz on 12/4/1951
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| Meir Yaari ||
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| Aharon Zisling ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|United Religious Front}}" rowspan=16 |
| rowspan=16 | United Religious Front (16)
| Yosef Burg ||
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| Moshe Kelmer || Replaced by Eliyahu Mazur on 11/3/1949
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| {{nowrap|Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky}} ||
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| Kalman Kahana ||
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| Yitzhak-Meir Levin || Minister of Welfare
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| Yehuda Leib Maimon || Minister of Religions and War Victims
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| Benjamin Mintz ||
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| Mordechai Nurock ||
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| David-Zvi Pinkas ||
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| Avraham-Haim Shag ||
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| Haim-Moshe Shapira || Minister of Health, Minister of Immigration, Minister of Internal Affairs
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| Moshe Unna ||
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| Zerach Warhaftig ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Herut}}" rowspan=14 |
| rowspan=14 | Herut (14)
| Menachem Begin ||
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| Yohanan Bader ||
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| Aryeh Ben-Eliezer ||
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| Haim Cohen-Meguri ||
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| Uri-Zvi Greenberg ||
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| Ari Jabotinsky || Left the party to sit as an independent
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| Shmuel Katz ||
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| Hillel Kook || Left the party to sit as an independent
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| Haim Landau ||
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| Eliyahu Lankin ||
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| Yaakov Meridor ||
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| Shmuel Merlin ||
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| Avraham Rakanti ||
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| Esther Raziel-Naor ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|General Zionists}}" rowspan=7 |
| rowspan=7 | General Zionists (7)
| Peretz Bernstein ||
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| Ya'akov Gil ||
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| Ya'akov Klivnov ||
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| Shoshana Parsitz ||
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| Israel Rokach ||
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| Yosef Sapir ||
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| Yosef Serlin ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Progressive Party (Israel)}}" rowspan=5 |
| rowspan=5 | Progressive Party (5)
| Idov Cohen ||
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| Yeshayahu Forder ||
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| Avraham Granot ||
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| Yizhar Harari ||
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| Pinchas Rosen || Minister of Justice
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Maki (historical political party)}}" rowspan=4 |
| rowspan=4 | Maki (4)
| Shmuel Mikunis ||
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| Eliezer Preminger || Left to form the Hebrew Communists before joining Mapam
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| Tawfik Toubi ||
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| Meir Vilner ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Sephardim and Oriental Communities}}" rowspan=4 |
| rowspan=4 | Sephardim & Oriental Communities (4)
| Moshe Ben-Ami ||
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| Eliyahu Eliashar ||
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| Avraham Elmalih ||
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| Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit || Minister of Police
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Mapai}}" rowspan=2 |
| rowspan=2 | Democratic List of Nazareth (2)
| Seif-El-Din El-Zubi ||
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| Amin-Salim Jarjora ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Fighters' List}}" rowspan=1 |
| rowspan=1 | Fighters' List (1)
| Nathan Yellin-Mor ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Yemenite Association}}" rowspan=1 |
| rowspan=1 | Yemenite Association (1)
| Zecharia Glosca ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Women's International Zionist Organization}}" rowspan=1 |
| rowspan=1 | WIZO (1)
| Rachel Cohen-Kagan ||
|}
=Replacements=
{| class="sort wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"
!MK
!Replaced
!Party
!Date
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|Eliyahu Mazur||Moshe Kelmer||United Religious Front||11 March 1949
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|Yitzhak Kanav||Avraham Taviv||Mapai||20 April 1950
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|Herzl Berger||Yehudit Simhonit||Mapai||5 February 1951
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|Jenia Tversky||Heshel Frumkin||Mapai||5 February 1951
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|Yisrael Yeshayahu||Aryeh Sheftel||Mapai||12 February 1951
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|Baruch Osnia||Abba Hushi||Mapai||12 February 1951
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|Menachem Ratzon||Dov Bar-Nir||Mapam||10 April 1951
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|David Livschitz||Yitzhak Tabenkin||Mapam||12 April 1951
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|Menachem Cohen||David Remez||Mapai||19 May 1951
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|Rafael Bash||Yosef-Michael Lamm||Mapai||21 May 1951
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See also
External links
- [https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindexbyknesset_eng.asp?knesset=1 Members of the First Knesset] Knesset website
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