List of members of the first Knesset

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

List of members

Party	Member	Notes
Mapai	Meir Argov
Mapai	Ami Assaf
Mapai	Zalman Aran
Mapai	Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Mapai	Aryeh Bahir
Mapai	David Bar-Rav-Hai
Mapai	Yosef Beretz
Mapai	Haim Ben-Asher
Mapai	David Ben-Gurion	Prime Minister, Minister of Defense
Mapai	Shmuel Dayan
Mapai	Ben-Zion Dinor
Mapai	Hasya Drori
Mapai	Yehiel Duvdevani
Mapai	Yosef Efrati
Mapai	Heshel Frumkin	Replaced by Jenia Tversky on 5/2/1951
Mapai	Shraga Goren
Mapai	Akiva Govrin
Mapai	Yisrael Guri
Mapai	Eliyahu Hacarmeli
Mapai	David Hacohen
Mapai	Neta Harpaz
Mapai	Avraham Herzfeld
Mapai	Abba Hushi	Replaced by Baruch Osnia on 12/2/1951
Mapai	Beba Idelson
Mapai	Eliezer Kaplan	Minister of Finance, Minister of Trade and Industry
Mapai	Yona Kesse
Mapai	Yosef-Michael Lamm	Replaced by Rafael Bash on 21/5/1951
Mapai	Shlomo Lavi
Mapai	Pinhas Lavon	Minister of Agriculture (second government)
Mapai	Eliezer Livna
Mapai	Ada Maimon
Mapai	Golda Meir	Minister of Labour and Social Security
Mapai	Peretz Naftali
Mapai	Dvora Netzer
Mapai	David Remez	Minister of Transportation (first government), Minister of Education and Culture (second government), replaced by Menachem Cohen on 19/5/1951
Mapai	Moshe Sharett	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mapai	Zalman Shazar	Minister of Education and Culture (first government)
Mapai	Aryeh Sheftel	Replaced by Yisrael Yeshayahu on 12/2/1951
Mapai	Reuven Sheri	Deputy Minister of Transportation (second government)
Mapai	Yosef Sprinzak
Mapai	Yizhar Smilansky
Mapai	Yehudit Simhonit	Replaced by Herzl Berger on 5/2/1951
Mapai	Efraim Taburi
Mapai	Avraham Taviv	Replaced by Yitzhak Kanav on 20/4/1950
Mapai	Zvi Yehuda
Mapai	Dov Yosef	Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Rationing and Supply (first government), Minister of Transportation (second government)
Mapam	Moshe Aram
Mapam	Menachem Bader
Mapam	Dov Bar-Nir	Replaced by Menachem Ratzon on 10/4/1951
Mapam	Yisrael Bar-Yehuda
Mapam	Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
Mapam	Mordechai Bentov
Mapam	Yaakov Hazan
Mapam	Yisrael Galili
Mapam	Fayge Ilanit
Mapam	Hannah Lamdan
Mapam	Nahum Nir
Mapam	Eliezer Peri
Mapam	Berl Repetur
Mapam	Ya'akov Riftin
Mapam	Hanan Rubin
Mapam	Moshe Sneh
Mapam	Yitzhak Tabenkin	Replaced by David Livschitz on 12/4/1951
Mapam	Meir Yaari
Mapam	Aharon Zisling
United Religious Front	Yosef Burg
United Religious Front	Moshe Kelmer	Replaced by Eliyahu Mazur on 11/3/1949
United Religious Front	Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky
United Religious Front	Avraham-Yehuda Goldrat
United Religious Front	Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg
United Religious Front	Kalman Kahana
United Religious Front	Meir-David Levenstein
United Religious Front	Yitzhak-Meir Levin	Minister of Welfare
United Religious Front	Yehuda Leib Maimon	Minister of Religions and War Victims
United Religious Front	Benjamin Mintz
United Religious Front	Mordechai Nurock
United Religious Front	David-Zvi Pinkas
United Religious Front	Avraham-Haim Shag
United Religious Front	Haim-Moshe Shapira	Minister of Health, Minister of Immigration, Minister of Internal Affairs
United Religious Front	Moshe Unna
United Religious Front	Zerach Warhaftig
Herut	Menachem Begin
Herut	Yohanan Bader
Herut	Aryeh Ben-Eliezer
Herut	Haim Cohen-Meguri
Herut	Uri-Zvi Greenberg
Herut	Ari Jabotinsky	Left the party to sit as an independent
Herut	Shmuel Katz
Herut	Hillel Kook	Left the party to sit as an independent
Herut	Haim Landau
Herut	Eliyahu Lankin
Herut	Yaakov Meridor
Herut	Shmuel Merlin
Herut	Avraham Rakanti
Herut	Esther Raziel-Naor
General Zionists	Peretz Bernstein
General Zionists	Ya'akov Gil
General Zionists	Ya'akov Klivnov
General Zionists	Shoshana Parsitz
General Zionists	Israel Rokach
General Zionists	Yosef Sapir
General Zionists	Yosef Serlin
Progressive Party	Idov Cohen
Progressive Party	Yeshayahu Forder
Progressive Party	Avraham Granot
Progressive Party	Yizhar Harari
Progressive Party	Pinchas Rosen	Minister of Justice
Maki	Shmuel Mikunis
Maki	Eliezer Preminger	Left to form the Hebrew Communists before joining Mapam
Maki	Tawfik Toubi
Maki	Meir Vilner
Sephardim & Oriental Communities	Moshe Ben-Ami
Sephardim & Oriental Communities	Eliyahu Eliashar
Sephardim & Oriental Communities	Avraham Elmalih
Sephardim & Oriental Communities	Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit	Minister of Police
Democratic List of Nazareth	Seif-El-Din El-Zubi
Democratic List of Nazareth	Amin-Salim Jarjora
Fighters' List	Nathan Yellin-Mor
Yemenite Association	Zecharia Glosca
WIZO	Rachel Cohen-Kagan

Replacements

MK	Replaced	Party	Date	Notes
Eliyahu Mazur	Moshe Kelmer	United Religious Front	11 March 1949
Yitzhak Kanav	Avraham Taviv	Mapai	20 April 1950
Herzl Berger	Yehudit Simhonit	Mapai	5 February 1951
Jenia Tversky	Heshel Frumkin	Mapai	5 February 1951
Yisrael Yeshayahu	Aryeh Sheftel	Mapai	12 February 1951
Baruch Osnia	Abba Hushi	Mapai	12 February 1951
Menachem Ratzon	Dov Bar-Nir	Mapam	10 April 1951
David Livschitz	Yitzhak Tabenkin	Mapam	12 April 1951
Menachem Cohen	David Remez	Mapai	19 May 1951
Rafael Bash	Yosef-Michael Lamm	Mapai	21 May 1951

See 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

• Members of the First Knesset Knesset website