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- Members of the Eighth Knesset Knesset website
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The 120 members of the eighth Knesset were elected on 31 December 1973. The breakdown by party was as follows:
The eighth Knesset was sworn in on 21 January 1974.
| MK | Replaced | Date | Party | Notes |
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| Haviv Shimoni | Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi | 14 February 1974 | Alignment | |
| Nissim Eliad | Moshe Kol | 10 March 1974 | Independent Liberals | |
| Yitzhak Golan | Gideon Hausner | 10 March 1974 | Independent Liberals | |
| Amos Hadar | Uzi Feinerman | 8 April 1974 | Alignment | |
| Jacques Amir | Golda Meir | 10 June 1974 | Alignment | |
| Yigal Cohen | Ariel Sharon | 23 December 1974 | Likud | |
| Simcha Friedman | Michael Hasani | 2 July 1975 | National Religious Party | |
| Ya'akov Frank | Pinchas Sapir | 12 August 1975 | Alignment | |
| Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross | Menachem Porush | 23 November 1975 | Religious Torah Front | When party split, represented Agudat Yisrael |
| Senetta Yoseftal | Zvi Guershoni | 1 September 1976 | Alignment | |
| Yehiel Leket | Avraham Ofer | 3 January 1977 | Alignment | |
| Haim Kaufman | Binyamin Halevi | 19 January 1977 | Likud | |
| Zita Linker | Shmuel Tamir | 21 January 1977 | Likud | |
| Amal Nasser el-Din | Akiva Nof | 22 January 1977 | Likud | |
| Zvi Alderoti | Aharon Yariv | 16 May 1977 | Alignment |
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