List of members of the sixteenth Knesset

This is a list of Members of the 16th Knesset.

The 120 deputies were elected on 29 January 2003.

Composition

Broken down by parties or lists, the following distribution of seats was:

During the election period, however, revealed numerous faction change. Thus the party Jisra'el be ` Aliyah merged in 2003 with the Likud, which thus held 40 seats. In 2005, the fraction of United Torah Judaism broke into two parties, Agudat Jisra'el and Degel ha - Torah. Cleavage and new party also experienced Shinui (1 MP, founded Tzalasch ) and the National Religious Party ( 2 deputies found the party of the renewed national-religious Zionism ). As Am Echad, the fraction Avoda Meimad joined, leaving a deputy, the party and formed his own faction Noj, but later joined the Kadima in, which had been formed in the meantime from 14 former Likud deputies. A year later Shinui experienced again a split: 3 deputies formed the group Shinui, the remaining 11 joined as a secular group together. Also in 2006 left a deputy, the National Union and remained attached Member. Of the remaining three members of a Shinui left the party and founded haOlim, the National Union joined later, from which Jisra'el Beiteinu (3 MPs ) solved. Two deputies left the secular faction and formed ha - Bayit ha - Le'umi. Most recently, the parliamentary group of Hadash and Ta'al disbanded. In the end, this resulted in the following picture:

  • Likud: 26
  • Labor Party ( Avoda ) Meimad: 21
  • Kadima: 15
  • Shas: 11
  • Secular Faction: 9
  • Meretz Jachad and bechira Demokratit: 6
  • National Union: 4
  • National Religious Party: 4
  • Agudat Jisra'el: 3
  • Balad: 3
  • Jisra'el Beiteinu: 3
  • Hadash: 2
  • Degel ha - Torah: 2
  • Ha - ha - Bayit Le'umi: 2
  • Party of the renewed national-religious Zionism: 2
  • Shinui: 2
  • United Arab List: 2
  • Ta'al: 1
  • Tzalasch: 1
  • Non-attached: 1

Members of the 16th Knesset

Reshuffles

Individual MPs resigned prematurely from the Parliament. For them, another moved by:

National Union (Israel) Democratic Choice (Israel) One Nation (Israel) Balad (political party) Degel HaTorah Uri Ariel David Azulai Eli Ben-Menachem Azmi Bishara Victor Brailovsky Ran Cohen Yitzhak Cohen Nissim Dahan Yaakov Edri Michael Eitan Aryeh Eldad Binyamin Elon Gilad Erdan Gila Gamliel Zvi Hendel Avraham Hirschson Dalia Itzik Ayoob Kara Yisrael Katz (politician born 1955) Uzi Landau Tommy Lapid David Levy (Israeli politician) Yitzhak Levy Limor Livnat Ya'akov Margi Michael Melchior Amram Mitzna Meshulam Nahari Yehudit Naot Dan Naveh Benjamin Netanyahu Michael Nudelman Ehud Olmert Haim Oron Shimon Peres Amir Peretz Ophir Pines-Paz Avraham Poraz Meir Porush Haim Ramon Michael Ratzon Reuven Rivlin Ilan Shalgi Avraham Shochat Yuri Stern Marina Solodkin Yuval Steinitz Yuli Tamir Matan Vilnai Majalli Wahabi Eli Yishai Eliezer Cohen Weizman Shiry Salah Tarif Esterina Tartman List of members of the first Knesset List of members of the second Knesset List of members of the fourth Knesset List of members of the seventh Knesset List of members of the twelfth Knesset List of members of the thirteenth Knesset List of members of the fourteenth Knesset List of members of the fifteenth Knesset List of members of the seventeenth Knesset List of members of the eighteenth Knesset List of members of the nineteenth Knesset
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