List of members of the sixteenth Knesset

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The 120 members of the sixteenth Knesset were elected on 28 January 2003. The breakdown by party was as follows:

Likud: 38
Labor Party-Meimad: 19
Shinui: 15
Shas: 11
National Union: 7
Meretz-Yachad and the Democratic Choice: 6
National Religious Party: 6
United Torah Judaism: 5
Hadash-Ta'al: 3
One Nation: 3
Balad: 3
Yisrael BaAliyah: 2
United Arab List: 2

List of members

{| class="sort wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"

!Party

!MK

!Notes

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|Likud||Ariel Sharon||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Binyamin Netanyahu

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|Likud||Tzachi Hanegbi||Left the party to join Kadima, replaced by Pnina Rosenblum (Likud) on 10 December 2005

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|Likud||Silvan Shalom

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|Likud||Dan Naveh

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|Likud||Limor Livnat

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|Likud||Yisrael Katz

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|Likud||Gideon Ezra||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Naomi Blumenthal

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|Likud||Uzi Landau

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|Likud||Gila Gamliel

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|Likud||Yuval Steinitz

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|Likud||Tzipi Livni||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Michael Eitan

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|Likud||Meir Sheetrit||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||David Levy

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|Likud||Ruhama Avraham||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Gideon Sa'ar

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|Likud||Daniel Benlulu

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|Likud||Michael Ratzon

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|Likud||Majalli Wahabi||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Yaakov Edri||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Ehud Yatom

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|Likud||Eli Aflalo||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Moshe Kahlon

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|Likud||Omri Sharon||Replaced by David Mena (Likud) on 5 January 2006

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|Likud||Michael Gorlovsky

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|Likud||Inbal Gavrieli

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|Likud||Gilad Erdan

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|Likud||Roni Bar-On||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Yehiel Hazan

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|Likud||Ehud Olmert||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Leah Ness

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|Likud||Ze'ev Boim||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Avraham Hirschson||Left the party to join Kadima

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|Likud||Reuven Rivlin

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|Likud||Haim Katz

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|Likud||Ayoob Kara

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Amram Mitzna||Replaced by Salah Tarif on 23 February 2005

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Binyamin Ben-Eliezer

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Shimon Peres||Replaced by Wizman Shiry on 17 January 2006 when he left to join Kadima

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Matan Vilnai

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Avraham Burg||Replaced by Raleb Majadele on 28 June 2004

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Dalia Itzik||Replaced by Avi Yehezkel on 17 January 2006 when she left to join Kadima

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Ophir Pines-Paz

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Efraim Sneh

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Yuli Tamir

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Michael Melchior

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Isaac Herzog

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Haim Ramon||Replaced by Efi Oshaya on 18 January 2006 when he left to join Kadima

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Danny Yatom

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Eitan Cabel

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Avraham Shochat

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Colette Avital

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Shalom Simhon

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Orit Noked

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|Labor Party-Meimad||Eli Ben-Menachem

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|Shinui||Tommy Lapid||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006

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|Shinui||Avraham Poraz||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006

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|Shinui||Yehudit Naot||Replaced by Erela Golan on 16 December 2004

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|Shinui||Yosef Paritzky||Left party to form Tzalash

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|Shinui||Eliezer Sandberg||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006, then split to form National Home

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|Shinui||Victor Brailovsky||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006

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|Shinui||Ilan Shalgi||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006

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|Shinui||Meli Polishook-Bloch||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006

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|Shinui||Reshef Hen||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006

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|Shinui||Roni Brizon||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006

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|Shinui||Ehud Rassabi

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|Shinui||Eti Livni||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006

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|Shinui||Ilan Leibovitch

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|Shinui||Hemi Doron||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006, then split to form National Home

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|Shinui||Yigal Yasinov||Left to form HaOlim, which merged into the Yisrael Beiteinu faction of the National Union (Yisrael Beiteinu later broke away)

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|Shas||Eli Yishai

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|Shas||Shlomo Benizri

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|Shas||Nissim Dahan

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|Shas||Amnon Cohen

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|Shas||Yitzhak Cohen

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|Shas||David Azulai

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|Shas||Meshulam Nahari

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|Shas||Yitzhak Vaknin

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|Shas||Yair Peretz||Replaced by Ofer Hugi on 25 March 2006

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|Shas||Nissim Ze'ev

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|Shas||Ya'akov Margi

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|National Union||Avigdor Lieberman||Replaced by Eliezer Cohen on 26 March 2003

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|National Union||Binyamin Elon

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|National Union||Yuri Stern||Yisrael Beiteinu broke away from National Union

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|National Union||Zvi Hendel

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|National Union||Michael Nudelman||Left the party to sit as an independent, replaced by Esterina Tartman (Yisrael Beiteinu) on 8 February 2006

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|National Union||Uri Ariel

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|National Union||Aryeh Eldad

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|Meretz-Yachad||Yossi Sarid

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||Meretz-Yachad||Haim Oron

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|Meretz-Yachad||Ran Cohen

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|Meretz-Yachad||Zehava Gal-On

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|Meretz-Yachad||Roman Bronfman

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|Meretz-Yachad||Avshalom Vilan

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|National Religious Party||Effi Eitam||Broke away to form the Renewed National Religious Zionism Party

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|National Religious Party||Zevulun Orlev

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|National Religious Party||Shaul Yahalom

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|National Religious Party||Yitzhak Levy||Broke away to form the Renewed National Religious Zionism Party

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|{{nowrap|National Religious Party}}||Gila Finkelstein

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|National Religious Party||Nissan Slomiansky

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|United Torah Judaism||Ya'akov Litzman||Party split, stayed in Agudat Yisrael faction

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|United Torah Judaism||Avraham Ravitz||Party split, stayed in Degel HaTorah faction

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|United Torah Judaism||Meir Porush||Party split, stayed in Agudat Yisrael faction

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|United Torah Judaism||Moshe Gafni||Party split, stayed in Degel HaTorah faction

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|United Torah Judaism||Yisrael Eichler||Party split, stayed in Agudat Yisrael faction, replaced by Shmuel Halpert on 23 February 2005

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|Hadash||Mohammad Barakeh

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|Hadash||Issam Makhoul

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|Hadash||Ahmad Tibi||Split from party to have Ta'al as an independent party

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|One Nation||Amir Peretz||Party merged into Labor Party-Meimad

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|One Nation||Ilana Cohen||Party merged into Labor Party-Meimad

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|One Nation||David Tal||Split to form Noy, then merged into Kadima

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|Balad||Azmi Bishara

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|Balad||Jamal Zahalka

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|Balad||Wasil Taha

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|Yisrael BaAliyah||Marina Solodkin||Party merged into Likud

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|Yisrael BaAliyah||Yuli-Yoel Edelstein||Party merged into Likud

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|United Arab List||{{nowrap|Abdulmalik Dehamshe}}

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|United Arab List||Taleb el-Sana

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=Replacements=

{| class="sort wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"

!MK

!Replaced

!Date

!Party

!Notes

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|Eliezer Cohen||Avigdor Lieberman||26 March 2003||National Union||Yisrael Beiteinu left the Union on 1 February

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|Raleb Majadele||Avraham Burg||28 June 2004||Labor Party-Meimad

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|Erela Golan||Yehudit Naot||16 December 2004||Shinui||Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006

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|Shmuel Halpert||Yisrael Eichler||23 February 2005||Agudat Yisrael

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|Salah Tarif||Amram Mitzna||23 February 2005||Labor Party-Meimad||Replaced by Ronen Tzur on 22 January 2006

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|Pnina Rosenblum||Tzachi Hanegbi||10 December 2005||Likud

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|David Mena||Omri Sharon||5 January 2006||Likud

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|Sofa Landver||Avraham Shochat||11 January 2006||Labor Party-Meimad||Replaced by Orna Angel on 8 February 2006

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|Wizman Shiry||Shimon Peres||17 January 2006||Labor Party-Meimad

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|Avi Yehezkel||Dalia Itzik||17 January 2006||Labor Party-Meimad||Replaced by Dani Koren on 28 January 2006

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|Efi Oshaya||Haim Ramon||18 January 2006||Labor Party-Meimad||Replaced by Tova Ilan on 21 January 2006

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|Tova Ilan||Efi Oshaya||21 January 2006||Labor Party-Meimad

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|Ronen Tzur||Salah Tarif||22 January 2006||Labor Party-Meimad

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|Dani Koren||Avi Yehezkel||28 January 2006||Labor Party-Meimad

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|Esterina Tartman||Michael Nudelman||8 February 2006||Yisrael Beiteinu

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|Orna Angel||Sofa Landver||8 February 2006||Labor Party-Meimad||Replaced by Neta Dobrin on 15 February 2006

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|Neta Dobrin||Orna Angel||15 February 2006||Labor Party-Meimad

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|Ofer Hugi||Yair Peretz||25 March 2006||Shas

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External links

[https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindexByKnesset_eng.asp?knesset=16 Knesset members in the Sixteenth Knesset] Knesset website

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