List of members of the second Knesset
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The 120 members of the second Knesset were elected on 30 July 1951. The breakdown by party was as follows:
- Mapai: 45
- General Zionists: 20
- Mapam: 15
- Hapoel HaMizrachi: 8
- Herut: 8
- Maki: 5
- Progressive Party: 4
- Democratic List for Israeli Arabs: 3
- Agudat Yisrael: 3
- Sephardim and Oriental Communities: 2
- Poalei Agudat Yisrael: 2
- Mizrachi: 2
- Progress and Work: 1
- Yemenite Association: 1
- Agriculture and Development: 1
List of members
{| class="sort wikitable sortable"
! colspan=2 | Party
! Name
! Notes
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Mapai}}" rowspan=45 |
| rowspan=45 | Mapai (45)
| Ada Maimon ||
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| Akiva Govrin ||
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| Ami Assaf ||
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| Avraham Herzfeld ||
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| Baruch Osnia| ||
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| Beba Idelson ||
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| Haim Ben-Asher ||
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| David Bar-Rav-Hai ||
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| David Ben-Gurion || Prime Minister (1951–54), Minister of Defense
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| David Hacohen || Replaced by Baruch Kamin
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| Dvora Netzer ||
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| Dov Yosef ||
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| Eliezer Kaplan || Replaced by Avraham Kalfon
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| Eliezer Livna ||
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| Eliyahu Hacarmeli || Replaced by Shlomo Hillel
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| Efraim Taburi ||
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| Golda Meir ||
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| Herzl Berger ||
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| Yisrael Guri ||
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| Jenia Tversky ||
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| Yosef Sprinzak ||
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| Kadish Luz ||
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| Levi Eshkol ||
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| Meir Argov ||
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| Mordechai Namir ||
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| Moshe Sharett || Prime Minister (1954–55), Minister of Foreign Affairs
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| Peretz Naftali ||
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| Pinhas Lavon ||
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| Reuven Feldman ||
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| Reuven Shari ||
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| Sarah Kafrit ||
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| Shlomo Lavi ||
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| Shmuel Dayan ||
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| Zalman Shazar ||
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| Ya'akov Uri ||
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| Yehezkel Hen || Replaced by Rachel Tzabari
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| Yisrael Yeshayahu ||
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| Yitzhak Ben-Zvi || Replaced by Ya'akov Nitzani
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| Yizhar Smilansky ||
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| Yona Kesse ||
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| Yosef Efrati ||
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| Zalman Aran ||
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| Ze'ev Shefer ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|General Zionists}}" rowspan=20 |
| rowspan=20 | General Zionists (20)
| Avraham Stop ||
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| Batsheva Katznelson ||
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| Ben-Zion Harel ||
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| Haim Ariav ||
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| Haim Boger ||
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| Elimelekh Rimalt ||
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| Ezra Ichilov ||
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| George Flash ||
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| Israel Rokach ||
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| Nahum Het ||
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| Peretz Bernstein ||
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| Shalom Zisman ||
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| Shimon Bejarano ||
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| Shlomo Perlstein ||
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| Shoshana Parsitz ||
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| Simha Babah ||
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| Ya'akov Klivnov ||
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| Yosef Sapir ||
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| Yosef Serlin ||
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| Zalman Suzayiv ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Mapam}}" rowspan=15 |
| rowspan=15 | Mapam (15)
| Eliezer Peri ||
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| Hanan Rubin ||
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| Meir Ya'ari || Leader of the Opposition (1952-55)
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| Mordechai Bentov ||
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| Ya'akov Hazan ||
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| Ya'akov Riftin ||
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| Aharon Zisling || Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion
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| Israel Bar-Yehuda || Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion
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| Moshe Aram || Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion
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| Yitzhak Ben-Aharon || |Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion
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| David Livschitz || Left Mapam to establish the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda, before joining Mapai
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| Hannah Lamdan || Left Mapam to establish the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda, before joining Mapai
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| Adolf Berman || Left Mapam to establish the Left Faction, before joining Maki
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| Moshe Sneh || Left Mapam to establish the Left Faction, before joining Maki
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| Rostam Bastuni || Left Mapam to establish the Left Faction, before returning to Mapam
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Hapoel HaMizrachi}}" rowspan=8 |
| rowspan=8 | Hapoel HaMizrachi (8)
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| Haim-Moshe Shapira ||
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| Michael Hasani ||
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| Moshe Kelmer ||
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| Moshe Unna ||
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| Yitzhak Rafael ||
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| Yosef Burg ||
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| Zerach Warhaftig ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Herut}}" rowspan=8 |
| rowspan=8 | Herut (8)
| Aryeh Altman ||
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| Aryeh Ben-Eliezer || Replaced by Haim Cohen-Meguri
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| Binyamin Avniel ||
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| Esther Raziel-Naor ||
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| Haim Landau ||
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| Menachem Begin ||
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| Ya'akov Meridor || Replaced by Eliezer Shostak
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| Yohanan Bader ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Maki (historical political party)}}" rowspan=5 |
| rowspan=5 | Maki (5)
| Emile Habibi ||
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| Esther Vilenska ||
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| Meir Vilner ||
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| Shmuel Mikunis ||
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| Tawfik Toubi ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Progressive Party (Israel)}}" rowspan=4 |
| rowspan=4 | Progressive Party (4)
| Avraham Granot || Replaced by Yeshayahu Forder
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| Moshe Kol || Replaced by Idov Cohen
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| Pinchas Rosen ||
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| Yizhar Harari ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Democratic List for Israeli Arabs}}" rowspan=3 |
| rowspan=3 | Democratic List for Israeli Arabs (3)
| Jabr Moade ||
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| Masaad Kassis ||
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| Seif el-Din el-Zubi ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Agudat Yisrael}}" rowspan=3 |
| rowspan=3 | Agudat Yisrael (3)
| Avraham Deutsch || Replaced by Zalman Ben-Ya'akov
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| Shlomo Lorincz ||
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| Yitzhak-Meir Levin ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Sephardim and Oriental Communities}}" rowspan=2 |
| rowspan=2 | Sephardim and Oriental Communities (2)
| Binyamin Sasson || Party merged into the General Zionists
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| Eliyahu Eliashar || Party merged into the General Zionists
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Poalei Agudat Yisrael}}" rowspan=2 |
| rowspan=2 | Poalei Agudat Yisrael (2)
| Binyamin Mintz ||
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| Kalman Kahana ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Mizrachi (political party)}}" rowspan=2 |
| rowspan=2 | Mizrachi (2)
|David-Zvi Pinkas || Replaced by Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir
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|Mordechai Nurock ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Progress and Work}}" rowspan=1 |
| rowspan=1 | Progress and Work (1)
| Salah-Hassan Hanifes ||
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Yemenite Association}}" rowspan=1 |
| rowspan=1 | Yemenite Association (1)
| Shimon Garidi || Party merged into the General Zionists, then broke away again
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| style="width:4px; background-color:{{party color|Agriculture and Development}}" rowspan=1 |
| rowspan=1 | Agriculture and Development (1)
| Faras Hamdan ||
|}
=Replacements=
{| class="sort wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"
!MK
!Replaced
!Party
!Date
!Notes
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|Idov Cohen||Moshe Kol||Progressive Party||10 September 1951||
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|Yeshayahu Forder||Avraham Granot||Progressive Party||10 September 1951||
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|Eliezer Shostak||Ya'akov Meridor||Herut||2 November 1951||
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|Rachel Tzabari||Yehezkel Hen||Mapai||4 April 1952||
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|Avraham Kalfon||Eliezer Kaplan||Mapai||13 July 1952||
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|Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir||David-Zvi Pinkas||Mizrachi||14 August 1952||
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|Ya'akov Nitzani||Yitzhak Ben-Zvi||Mapai||8 December 1952||
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|Shlomo Hillel||Eliyahu Hacarmeli||Mapai||21 December 1952||
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|Zalman Ben-Ya'akov||Avraham Deutsch||Agudat Yisrael||24 June 1953||
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|Haim Cohen-Meguri||Aryeh Ben-Eliezer||Herut||6 July 1953||
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|Baruch Kamin||David Hacohen||Mapai||1 December 1953||
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External links
- [https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindexbyknesset_eng.asp?knesset=2 Members of the Second Knesset] Knesset website
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