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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

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Party	MK	Notes
Likud	Ariel Sharon	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Binyamin Netanyahu
Likud	Tzachi Hanegbi	Left the party to join Kadima, replaced by Pnina Rosenblum (Likud) on 10 December 2005
Likud	Silvan Shalom
Likud	Dan Naveh
Likud	Limor Livnat
Likud	Yisrael Katz
Likud	Gideon Ezra	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Naomi Blumenthal
Likud	Uzi Landau
Likud	Gila Gamliel
Likud	Yuval Steinitz
Likud	Tzipi Livni	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Michael Eitan
Likud	Meir Sheetrit	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	David Levy
Likud	Ruhama Avraham	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Gideon Sa'ar
Likud	Daniel Benlulu
Likud	Michael Ratzon
Likud	Majalli Wahabi	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Yaakov Edri	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Ehud Yatom
Likud	Eli Aflalo	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Moshe Kahlon
Likud	Omri Sharon	Replaced by David Mena (Likud) on 5 January 2006
Likud	Michael Gorlovsky
Likud	Inbal Gavrieli
Likud	Gilad Erdan
Likud	Roni Bar-On	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Yehiel Hazan
Likud	Ehud Olmert	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Leah Ness
Likud	Ze'ev Boim	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Avraham Hirschson	Left the party to join Kadima
Likud	Reuven Rivlin
Likud	Haim Katz
Likud	Ayoob Kara
Labor Party-Meimad	Amram Mitzna	Replaced by Salah Tarif on 23 February 2005
Labor Party-Meimad	Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
Labor Party-Meimad	Shimon Peres	Replaced by Wizman Shiry on 17 January 2006 when he left to join Kadima
Labor Party-Meimad	Matan Vilnai
Labor Party-Meimad	Avraham Burg	Replaced by Raleb Majadele on 28 June 2004
Labor Party-Meimad	Dalia Itzik	Replaced by Avi Yehezkel on 17 January 2006 when she left to join Kadima
Labor Party-Meimad	Ophir Pines-Paz
Labor Party-Meimad	Efraim Sneh
Labor Party-Meimad	Yuli Tamir
Labor Party-Meimad	Michael Melchior
Labor Party-Meimad	Isaac Herzog
Labor Party-Meimad	Haim Ramon	Replaced by Efi Oshaya on 18 January 2006 when he left to join Kadima
Labor Party-Meimad	Danny Yatom
Labor Party-Meimad	Eitan Cabel
Labor Party-Meimad	Avraham Shochat
Labor Party-Meimad	Colette Avital
Labor Party-Meimad	Shalom Simhon
Labor Party-Meimad	Orit Noked
Labor Party-Meimad	Eli Ben-Menachem
Shinui	Tommy Lapid	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006
Shinui	Avraham Poraz	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006
Shinui	Yehudit Naot	Replaced by Erela Golan on 16 December 2004
Shinui	Yosef Paritzky	Left party to form Tzalash
Shinui	Eliezer Sandberg	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006, then split to form National Home
Shinui	Victor Brailovsky	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006
Shinui	Ilan Shalgi	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006
Shinui	Meli Polishook-Bloch	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006
Shinui	Reshef Hen	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006
Shinui	Roni Brizon	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006
Shinui	Ehud Rassabi
Shinui	Eti Livni	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006
Shinui	Ilan Leibovitch
Shinui	Hemi Doron	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006, then split to form National Home
Shinui	Yigal Yasinov	Left to form HaOlim, which merged into the Yisrael Beiteinu faction of the National Union (Yisrael Beiteinu later broke away)
Shas	Eli Yishai
Shas	Shlomo Benizri
Shas	Nissim Dahan
Shas	Amnon Cohen
Shas	Yitzhak Cohen
Shas	David Azulai
Shas	Meshulam Nahari
Shas	Yitzhak Vaknin
Shas	Yair Peretz	Replaced by Ofer Hugi on 25 March 2006
Shas	Nissim Ze'ev
Shas	Ya'akov Margi
National Union	Avigdor Lieberman	Replaced by Eliezer Cohen on 26 March 2003
National Union	Binyamin Elon
National Union	Yuri Stern	Yisrael Beiteinu broke away from National Union
National Union	Zvi Hendel
National Union	Michael Nudelman	Left the party to sit as an independent, replaced by Esterina Tartman (Yisrael Beiteinu) on 8 February 2006
National Union	Uri Ariel
National Union	Aryeh Eldad
Meretz-Yachad	Yossi Sarid
Meretz-Yachad	Haim Oron
Meretz-Yachad	Ran Cohen
Meretz-Yachad	Zehava Gal-On
Meretz-Yachad	Roman Bronfman
Meretz-Yachad	Avshalom Vilan
National Religious Party	Effi Eitam	Broke away to form the Renewed National Religious Zionism Party
National Religious Party	Zevulun Orlev
National Religious Party	Shaul Yahalom
National Religious Party	Yitzhak Levy	Broke away to form the Renewed National Religious Zionism Party
National Religious Party	Gila Finkelstein
National Religious Party	Nissan Slomiansky
United Torah Judaism	Ya'akov Litzman	Party split, stayed in Agudat Yisrael faction
United Torah Judaism	Avraham Ravitz	Party split, stayed in Degel HaTorah faction
United Torah Judaism	Meir Porush	Party split, stayed in Agudat Yisrael faction
United Torah Judaism	Moshe Gafni	Party split, stayed in Degel HaTorah faction
United Torah Judaism	Yisrael Eichler	Party split, stayed in Agudat Yisrael faction, replaced by Shmuel Halpert on 23 February 2005
Hadash	Mohammad Barakeh
Hadash	Issam Makhoul
Hadash	Ahmad Tibi	Split from party to have Ta'al as an independent party
One Nation	Amir Peretz	Party merged into Labor Party-Meimad
One Nation	Ilana Cohen	Party merged into Labor Party-Meimad
One Nation	David Tal	Split to form Noy, then merged into Kadima
Balad	Azmi Bishara
Balad	Jamal Zahalka
Balad	Wasil Taha
Yisrael BaAliyah	Marina Solodkin	Party merged into Likud
Yisrael BaAliyah	Yuli-Yoel Edelstein	Party merged into Likud
United Arab List	Abdulmalik Dehamshe
United Arab List	Taleb el-Sana

MK	Replaced	Date	Party	Notes
Eliezer Cohen	Avigdor Lieberman	26 March 2003	National Union	Yisrael Beiteinu left the Union on 1 February
Raleb Majadele	Avraham Burg	28 June 2004	Labor Party-Meimad
Erela Golan	Yehudit Naot	16 December 2004	Shinui	Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006
Shmuel Halpert	Yisrael Eichler	23 February 2005	Agudat Yisrael
Salah Tarif	Amram Mitzna	23 February 2005	Labor Party-Meimad	Replaced by Ronen Tzur on 22 January 2006
Pnina Rosenblum	Tzachi Hanegbi	10 December 2005	Likud
David Mena	Omri Sharon	5 January 2006	Likud
Sofa Landver	Avraham Shochat	11 January 2006	Labor Party-Meimad	Replaced by Orna Angel on 8 February 2006
Wizman Shiry	Shimon Peres	17 January 2006	Labor Party-Meimad
Avi Yehezkel	Dalia Itzik	17 January 2006	Labor Party-Meimad	Replaced by Dani Koren on 28 January 2006
Efi Oshaya	Haim Ramon	18 January 2006	Labor Party-Meimad	Replaced by Tova Ilan on 21 January 2006
Tova Ilan	Efi Oshaya	21 January 2006	Labor Party-Meimad
Ronen Tzur	Salah Tarif	22 January 2006	Labor Party-Meimad
Dani Koren	Avi Yehezkel	28 January 2006	Labor Party-Meimad
Esterina Tartman	Michael Nudelman	8 February 2006	Yisrael Beiteinu
Orna Angel	Sofa Landver	8 February 2006	Labor Party-Meimad	Replaced by Neta Dobrin on 15 February 2006
Neta Dobrin	Orna Angel	15 February 2006	Labor Party-Meimad
Ofer Hugi	Yair Peretz	25 March 2006	Shas

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