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

	Name	Note
Mapai (46)	Meir Argov
	Ami Assaf
	Zalman Aran
	Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
	Aryeh Bahir
	David Bar-Rav-Hai
	Yosef Beretz
	Haim Ben-Asher
	David Ben-Gurion	Prime Minister, Minister of Defense
	Shmuel Dayan
	Ben-Zion Dinor
	Hasya Drori
	Yehiel Duvdevani
	Yosef Efrati
	Heshel Frumkin	Replaced by Jenia Tversky on 5/2/1951
	Shraga Goren
	Akiva Govrin
	Yisrael Guri
	Eliyahu Hacarmeli
	David Hacohen
	Neta Harpaz
	Avraham Herzfeld
	Abba Hushi	Replaced by Baruch Osnia on 12/2/1951
	Beba Idelson
	Eliezer Kaplan	Minister of Finance, Minister of Trade and Industry
	Yona Kesse
	Yosef-Michael Lamm	Replaced by Rafael Bash on 21/5/1951
	Shlomo Lavi
	Pinhas Lavon	Minister of Agriculture (second government)
	Eliezer Livna
	Ada Maimon
	Golda Meir	Minister of Labour and Social Security
	Peretz Naftali
	Dvora Netzer
	David Remez	Minister of Transportation (first government), Minister of Education and Culture (second government), replaced by Menachem Cohen on 19/5/1951
	Moshe Sharett	Minister of Foreign Affairs
	Zalman Shazar	Minister of Education and Culture (first government)
	Aryeh Sheftel	Replaced by Yisrael Yeshayahu on 12/2/1951
	Reuven Shari	Deputy Minister of Transportation (second government)
	Yosef Sprinzak
	Yizhar Smilansky
	Yehudit Simhonit	Replaced by Herzl Berger on 5/2/1951
	Efraim Taburi
	Avraham Taviv	Replaced by Yitzhak Kanav on 20/4/1950
	Zvi Yehuda
	Dov Yosef	Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Rationing and Supply (first government), Minister of Transportation (second government)
Mapam (19)	Moshe Aram
	Menachem Bader
	Dov Bar-Nir	Replaced by Menachem Ratzon on 10/4/1951
	Yisrael Bar-Yehuda
	Yitzhak Ben-Aharon
	Mordechai Bentov
	Yaakov Hazan
	Yisrael Galili
	Fayge Ilanit
	Hannah Lamdan
	Nahum Nir
	Eliezer Peri
	Berl Repetur
	Ya'akov Riftin
	Hanan Rubin
	Moshe Sneh
	Yitzhak Tabenkin	Replaced by David Livschitz on 12/4/1951
	Meir Yaari
	Aharon Zisling
United Religious Front (16)	Yosef Burg
	Moshe Kelmer	Replaced by Eliyahu Mazur on 11/3/1949
	Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky
	Avraham-Yehuda Goldrat
	Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg
	Kalman Kahana
	Meir-David Levenstein
	Yitzhak-Meir Levin	Minister of Welfare
	Yehuda Leib Maimon	Minister of Religions and War Victims
	Benjamin Mintz
	Mordechai Nurock
	David-Zvi Pinkas
	Avraham-Haim Shag
	Haim-Moshe Shapira	Minister of Health, Minister of Immigration, Minister of Internal Affairs
	Moshe Unna
	Zerach Warhaftig
Herut (14)	Menachem Begin
	Yohanan Bader
	Aryeh Ben-Eliezer
	Haim Cohen-Meguri
	Uri-Zvi Greenberg
	Ari Jabotinsky	Left the party to sit as an independent
	Shmuel Katz
	Hillel Kook	Left the party to sit as an independent
	Haim Landau
	Eliyahu Lankin
	Yaakov Meridor
	Shmuel Merlin
	Avraham Rakanti
	Esther Raziel-Naor
General Zionists (7)	Peretz Bernstein
	Ya'akov Gil
	Ya'akov Klivnov
	Shoshana Parsitz
	Israel Rokach
	Yosef Sapir
	Yosef Serlin
Progressive Party (5)	Idov Cohen
	Yeshayahu Forder
	Avraham Granot
	Yizhar Harari
	Pinchas Rosen	Minister of Justice
Maki (4)	Shmuel Mikunis
	Eliezer Preminger	Left to form the Hebrew Communists before joining Mapam
	Tawfik Toubi
	Meir Vilner
Sephardim & Oriental Communities (4)	Moshe Ben-Ami
	Eliyahu Eliashar
	Avraham Elmalih
	Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit	Minister of Police
Democratic List of Nazareth (2)	Seif-El-Din El-Zubi
Democratic List of Nazareth (2)	Amin-Salim Jarjora
Fighters' List (1)	Nathan Yellin-Mor
Yemenite Association (1)	Zecharia Glosca
WIZO (1)	Rachel Cohen-Kagan

MK	Replaced	Party	Date
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

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