List of members of the fourth Knesset explained

The 120 members of the fourth Knesset were elected on 3 November 1959. The breakdown by party was as follows:

• Mapai

47

• Herut

17

• National Religious Party

12

• Mapam

9

• General Zionists

8

• Ahdut HaAvoda

7

• Religious Torah Front

6

• Progressive Party

6

• Maki

3

• Progress and Development

2

• Cooperation and Brotherhood

2

• Agriculture and Development

1

List of members

Member	Party	Notes
Yosef Almogi	Mapai
Zalman Aran	Mapai
Meir Argov	Mapai
Ami Assaf	Mapai
David Bar-Rav-Hai	Mapai
Moshe Baram	Mapai
Aharon Becker	Mapai
David Ben-Gurion	Mapai
Gideon Ben-Yisrael	Mapai
Herzl Berger	Mapai
Menachem Cohen	Mapai
Yitzhak Coren	Mapai
Moshe Dayan	Mapai
Amos Degani	Mapai
Abba Eban	Mapai
Yosef Efrati	Mapai
Levi Eshkol	Mapai
Yosef Fischer	Mapai
Akiva Govrin	Mapai
Yisrael Guri	Mapai
David Hacohen	Mapai
Asher Hassin	Mapai
Avraham Herzfeld	Mapai
Beba Idelson	Mapai
Yisrael Kargman	Mapai
Yona Kesse	Mapai
Hannah Lamdan	Mapai
Pinhas Lavon	Mapai
Kadish Luz	Mapai
Golda Meir	Mapai
Mordechai Namir	Mapai
Dvora Netzer	Mapai
Baruch Osnia	Mapai
Shimon Peres	Mapai
David Petel	Mapai
Pinhas Sapir	Mapai
Moshe Sardines	Mapai
Moshe Sharett	Mapai
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit	Mapai
Shmuel Shoresh	Mapai
Yizhar Smilansky	Mapai
Rachel Tzabari	Mapai
Jenia Tversky	Mapai
Yisrael Yeshayahu	Mapai
Giora Yoseftal	Mapai
Haim Yosef Zadok	Mapai
Mordechai Zar	Mapai
Aryeh Altman	Herut
Binyamin Arditi	Herut
Binyamin Avniel	Herut
Yohanan Bader	Herut
Menachem Begin	Herut
Aryeh Ben-Eliezer	Herut
Haim Cohen-Meguri	Herut
Haim Landau	Herut
Nahum Levin	Herut
Eliyahu Meridor	Herut
Ya'akov Meridor	Herut
Mordechai Olmert	Herut
Esther Raziel-Naor	Herut
Shabtai Shikhman	Herut
Yosef Shofman	Herut
Eliezer Shostak	Herut
Shimshon Unichman	Herut
Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir	National Religious Party
Yosef Burg	National Religious Party
Michael Hasani	National Religious Party
Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg	National Religious Party
Mordechai Nurock	National Religious Party
Yitzhak Rafael	National Religious Party
Tova Sanhadray	National Religious Party
Binyamin Shahor	National Religious Party
Haim-Moshe Shapira	National Religious Party
Moshe Unna	National Religious Party
Zerach Warhaftig	National Religious Party
Frija Zoaretz	National Religious Party
Yisrael Barzilai	Mapam
Mordechai Bentov	Mapam
Ya'akov Hazan	Mapam
Yussuf Hamis	Mapam
Ya'akov Riftin	Mapam
Hanan Rubin	Mapam
Emma Talmi	Mapam
Meir Ya'ari	Mapam
Haim Yehuda	Mapam
Zalman Abramov	General Zionists	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Peretz Bernstein	General Zionists	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Ezra Ichilov	General Zionists	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Moshe Nissim	General Zionists	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Elimelekh Rimalt	General Zionists	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Yosef Sapir	General Zionists	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Yosef Serlin	General Zionists	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Zvi Zimmerman	General Zionists	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Yigal Allon	Ahdut HaAvoda
Yisrael Bar-Yehuda	Ahdut HaAvoda
Yitzhak Ben-Aharon	Ahdut HaAvoda
Mordechai Bibi	Ahdut HaAvoda
Moshe Carmel	Ahdut HaAvoda
Yisrael Galili	Ahdut HaAvoda
Nahum Nir	Ahdut HaAvoda
Kalman Kahana	Religious Torah Front	When alliance split, represented Poalei Agudat Yisrael
Ya'akov Katz	Religious Torah Front	When alliance split, represented Poalei Agudat Yisrael
Yitzhak-Meir Levin	Religious Torah Front	When alliance split, represented Agudat Yisrael
Shlomo Lorincz	Religious Torah Front	When alliance split, represented Agudat Yisrael
Binyamin Mintz	Religious Torah Front	When alliance split, represented Poalei Agudat Yisrael
Menachem Porush	Religious Torah Front	When alliance split, represented Agudat Yisrael
Idov Cohen	Progressive Party	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Yitzhak Golan	Progressive Party	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Yizhar Harari	Progressive Party	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Shimon Kanovitch	Progressive Party	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Moshe Kol	Progressive Party	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Pinhas Rosen	Progressive Party	Party merged into the Liberal Party
Shmuel Mikunis	Maki
Tawfik Toubi	Maki
Meir Vilner	Maki
Ahmed A-Dahar	Progress and Development
Elias Nakhleh	Progress and Development
Labib Hussein Abu Rokan	Cooperation and Brotherhood
Yussef Diab	Cooperation and Brotherhood
Mahmud A-Nashaf	Agriculture and Development

Replacements

MK	Replaced	Party	Date	Notes
Moshe Sneh	Meir Vilner	Maki	16 December 1959
Aharon Yadlin	Aharon Becker	Mapai	23 May 1960
Yosef Kushnir	Haim Yehuda	Mapam	10 July 1960
Ruth Haktin	Yigal Allon	Ahdut HaAvoda	25 October 1960
Avraham Drori	Shimshon Unichman	Herut	21 March 1961
Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross	Binyamin Mintz	Agudat Yisrael	30 May 1961

External links

• Members of the Fourth Knesset Knesset website