List of members of the fifth Knesset

The 120 members of the fifth Knesset were elected on 1 August 1961. The breakdown by party was as follows:

Members of the Fifth Knesset edit

Party		Name
	Mapai (42)	Yosef Almogi (until 1965)
		Zalman Aran
		Meir Argov
		Ami Assaf
		David Bar-Rav-Hai
		Moshe Baram
		Aharon Becker
		David Ben-Gurion (until 1965)
		Herzl Berger
		Menachem Cohen
		Yitzhak Coren
		Moshe Dayan (until 1965)
		Amos Degani (until 1965)
		Abba Eban
		Yosef Efrati
		Levi Eshkol
		Yosef Fischer
		Akiva Govrin
		Yisrael Guri
		David Hacohen
		Asher Hassin
		Avraham Herzfeld
		Beba Idelson
		Yisrael Kargman
		Yona Kesse (until 1964)
		Kadish Luz
		Golda Meir
		Mordechai Namir
		Dvora Netzer
		Baruch Osnia
		Shimon Peres (until 1965)
		David Petel
		Pinchas Sapir
		Moshe Sardines
		Moshe Sharett
		Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit
		Shmuel Shoresh
		Yizhar Smilansky (until 1965)
		Rachel Tzabari
		Yisrael Yeshayahu
		Giora Yoseftal
		Haim Yosef Zadok
	Herut (17)	Aryeh Altman
		Binyamin Arditi
		Binyamin Avniel
		Yohanan Bader
		Menachem Begin
		Aryeh Ben-Eliezer
		Haim Cohen-Meguri
		Avraham Drori
		Haim Landau
		Nahum Levin
		Eliyahu Meridor
		Ya'akov Meridor
		Esther Raziel-Naor
		Shabtai Shikhman
		Yosef Shofman
		Eliezer Shostak
		Avraham Tiar
	Liberal Party (17)	Zalman Abramov
		Peretz Bernstein
		Benno Cohen (until 1965)
		Idov Cohen
		Rachel Cohen-Kagan (until 1965)
		Yitzhak Golan (until 1965)
		Yizhar Harari (until 1965)
		Yitzhak Klinghoffer
		Moshe Kol (until 1965)
		Shlomo Perlstein
		Elimelekh Rimalt
		Pinchas Rosen (until 1965)
		Yosef Sapir
		Yosef Serlin
		Yehuda Sha'ari (until 1965)
		Baruch Uziel
		Zvi Zimmerman
	National Religious Party (12)	Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir
		Yosef Burg
		Michael Hasani
		Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg
		Mordechai Nurock
		Yitzhak Rafael
		Tova Sanhadray
		Binyamin Shahor
		Haim-Moshe Shapira
		Moshe Unna
		Zerach Warhaftig
		Frija Zoaretz
	Mapam (9)	Yisrael Barzilai
		Mordechai Bentov
		Ya'akov Hazan
		Yussuf Hamis
		Ya'akov Riftin
		Hanan Rubin
		Victor Shem-Tov
		Emma Talmi
		Meir Ya'ari
	Ahdut HaAvoda (8)	Yigal Allon
		Yisrael Bar-Yehuda
		Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
		Mordechai Bibi
		Moshe Carmel
		Yisrael Galili
		Ruth Haktin
		Nahum Nir
	Rafi (8)	Yosef Almogi (after 1965)
		Gideon Ben-Yisrael
		David Ben-Gurion (after 1965)
		Moshe Dayan (after 1965)
		Amos Degani (after 1965)
		Hannah Lamdan
		Shimon Peres (after 1965)
		Yizhar Smilansky (after 1965)
	Independent Liberals (7)	Benno Cohen (after 1965)
		Rachel Cohen-Kagan (after 1965)
		Yitzhak Golan (after 1965)
		Yizhar Harari (after 1965)
		Moshe Kol (after 1965)
		Pinchas Rosen (after 1965)
		Yehuda Sha'ari (after 1965)
	Maki (5)	Shmuel Mikunis
		Moshe Sneh
		Esther Vilenska
		Meir Vilner (until 1965)
		Tawfik Toubi (until 1965)
	Agudat Yisrael (4)	Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross
		Yitzhak-Meir Levin
		Shlomo Lorincz
		Menachem Porush
	Poalei Agudat Yisrael (2)	Kalman Kahana
	Poalei Agudat Yisrael (2)	Ya'akov Katz
	Rakah (2)	Meir Vilner (after 1965)
	Rakah (2)	Tawfik Toubi (after 1965)
	Cooperation and Brotherhood (2)	Jabr Muadi
	Cooperation and Brotherhood (2)	Diyab Obeid
	Progress and Development (2)	Ahmed A-Dahar
	Progress and Development (2)	Elias Nakhleh

Replacements edit

MK	Replaced	Party	Date	Notes
Emile Habibi	Meir Vilner	Maki	9 October 1961	Left party to form Rakah
Hannah Lamdan	Giora Yoseftal	Mapai	23 August 1962	Left party to form Rafi
Gideon Ben-Yisrael	Herzl Berger	Mapai	24 October 1962	Left party to form Rafi
Yosef Kushnir	Hanan Rubin	Mapam	24 October 1962
Shalom-Avraham Shaki	Mordechai Nurock	National Religious Party	8 November 1962
Moshe Kelmer	Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg	National Religious Party	2 April 1963
Mordechai Zar	Ami Assaf	Mapai	17 May 1963
Aharon Goldstein	Idov Cohen	Liberal Party	11 November 1963	Party merged with Herut to form Gahal
Jenia Tversky	Meir Argov	Mapai	24 November 1963
Aharon Yadlin	Jenia Tversky	Mapai	4 May 1964
Halil-Salim Jabara	Yitzhak Ben-Aharon	Ahdut HaAvoda	11 May 1964
Yosef Kremerman	Avraham Drori	Herut	20 August 1964	Party merged with the Liberal Party to form Gahal
Moshe Aram	Yisrael Bar-Yehuda	Ahdut HaAvoda	4 May 1865
Ari Ankorion	Moshe Sharett	Mapai	7 July 1965

External links edit

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