List of members of the second Knesset

The 120 members of the second Knesset were elected on 30 July 1951. The breakdown by party was as follows:

• Mapai: 45
• General Zionists: 20
• Mapam: 15
• Hapoel HaMizrachi: 8
• Herut: 8
• Maki: 5
• Progressive Party: 4
• Democratic List for Israeli Arabs: 3
• Agudat Yisrael: 3
• Sephardim and Oriental Communities: 2
• Poalei Agudat Yisrael: 2
• Mizrachi: 2
• Progress and Work: 1
• Yemenite Association: 1
• Agriculture and Development: 1

List of members

Party		Name	Notes
	Mapai (45)	Ada Maimon
		Akiva Govrin
		Ami Assaf
		Avraham Herzfeld
		Baruch Osnia
		Beba Idelson
		Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit
		Haim Ben-Asher
		David Bar-Rav-Hai
		David Ben-Gurion	Prime Minister (1951–54), Minister of Defense
		David Hacohen	Replaced by Baruch Kamin
		Dvora Netzer
		Dov Yosef
		Eliezer Kaplan	Replaced by Avraham Kalfon
		Eliezer Livna
		Eliyahu Hacarmeli	Replaced by Shlomo Hillel
		Efraim Taburi
		Golda Meir
		Herzl Berger
		Yisrael Guri
		Jenia Tversky
		Yosef Sprinzak
		Kadish Luz
		Levi Eshkol
		Meir Argov
		Mordechai Namir
		Moshe Sharett	Prime Minister (1954–55), Minister of Foreign Affairs
		Peretz Naftali
		Pinhas Lavon
		Reuven Feldman
		Reuven Shari
		Sarah Kafrit
		Shlomo Lavi
		Shmuel Dayan
		Zalman Shazar
		Ya'akov Uri
		Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira
		Yehezkel Hen	Replaced by Rachel Tzabari
		Yisrael Yeshayahu
		Yitzhak Ben-Zvi	Replaced by Ya'akov Nitzani
		Yizhar Smilansky
		Yona Kesse
		Yosef Efrati
		Zalman Aran
		Ze'ev Shefer
	General Zionists (20)	Avraham Stop
		Batsheva Katznelson
		Ben-Zion Harel
		Haim Ariav
		Haim Boger
		Elimelekh Rimalt
		Ezra Ichilov
		George Flash
		Israel Rokach
		Nahum Het
		Peretz Bernstein
		Shalom Zisman
		Shimon Bejarano
		Shlomo Perlstein
		Shoshana Parsitz
		Simha Babah
		Ya'akov Klivnov
		Yosef Sapir
		Yosef Serlin
		Zalman Suzayiv
	Mapam (15)	Eliezer Peri
		Hanan Rubin
		Meir Ya'ari	Leader of the Opposition (1952-55)
		Mordechai Bentov
		Ya'akov Hazan
		Ya'akov Riftin
		Aharon Zisling	Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion
		Israel Bar-Yehuda	Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion
		Moshe Aram	Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion
		Yitzhak Ben-Aharon	Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion
		David Livschitz	Left Mapam to establish the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda, before joining Mapai
		Hannah Lamdan	Left Mapam to establish the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda, before joining Mapai
		Adolf Berman	Left Mapam to establish the Left Faction, before joining Maki
		Moshe Sneh	Left Mapam to establish the Left Faction, before joining Maki
		Rostam Bastuni	Left Mapam to establish the Left Faction, before returning to Mapam
	Hapoel HaMizrachi (8)	Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky
		Haim-Moshe Shapira
		Michael Hasani
		Moshe Kelmer
		Moshe Unna
		Yitzhak Rafael
		Yosef Burg
		Zerach Warhaftig
	Herut (8)	Aryeh Altman
		Aryeh Ben-Eliezer	Replaced by Haim Cohen-Meguri
		Binyamin Avniel
		Esther Raziel-Naor
		Haim Landau
		Menachem Begin
		Ya'akov Meridor	Replaced by Eliezer Shostak
		Yohanan Bader
	Maki (5)	Emile Habibi
		Esther Vilenska
		Meir Vilner
		Shmuel Mikunis
		Tawfik Toubi
	Progressive Party (4)	Avraham Granot	Replaced by Yeshayahu Forder
		Moshe Kol	Replaced by Idov Cohen
		Pinchas Rosen
		Yizhar Harari
	Democratic List for Israeli Arabs (3)	Jabr Moade
		Masaad Kassis
		Seif el-Din el-Zubi
	Agudat Yisrael (3)	Avraham Deutsch	Replaced by Zalman Ben-Ya'akov
		Shlomo Lorincz
		Yitzhak-Meir Levin
	Sephardim and Oriental Communities (2)	Binyamin Sasson	Party merged into the General Zionists
		Eliyahu Eliashar	Party merged into the General Zionists
	Poalei Agudat Yisrael (2)	Binyamin Mintz
		Kalman Kahana
	Mizrachi (2)	David-Zvi Pinkas	Replaced by Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir
		Mordechai Nurock
	Progress and Work (1)	Salah-Hassan Hanifes
	Yemenite Association (1)	Shimon Garidi	Party merged into the General Zionists, then broke away again
	Agriculture and Development (1)	Faras Hamdan

Replacements

MK	Replaced	Party	Date	Notes
Idov Cohen	Moshe Kol	Progressive Party	10 September 1951
Yeshayahu Forder	Avraham Granot	Progressive Party	10 September 1951
Eliezer Shostak	Ya'akov Meridor	Herut	2 November 1951
Rachel Tzabari	Yehezkel Hen	Mapai	4 April 1952
Avraham Kalfon	Eliezer Kaplan	Mapai	13 July 1952
Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir	David-Zvi Pinkas	Mizrachi	14 August 1952
Ya'akov Nitzani	Yitzhak Ben-Zvi	Mapai	8 December 1952
Shlomo Hillel	Eliyahu Hacarmeli	Mapai	21 December 1952
Zalman Ben-Ya'akov	Avraham Deutsch	Agudat Yisrael	24 June 1953
Haim Cohen-Meguri	Aryeh Ben-Eliezer	Herut	6 July 1953
Baruch Kamin	David Hacohen	Mapai	1 December 1953

External links

• Members of the Second Knesset Knesset website