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The following is a list of the members of the seventeenth Knesset , elected on 28 March 2006 and inaugurated 4 May 2006, and their replacements.
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The following is a list of the members of the seventeenth Knesset , elected on 28 March 2006 and inaugurated 4 May 2006, and their replacements.
| Name | Party | Replaced by | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uriel Reichman | Kadima | Shai Hermesh | Resigned on 20 April 2006 after the role of Minister of Education, promised to him by Ariel Sharon, was given to Labor. |
| Natan Sharansky | Likud | Haim Katz | Sharansky retired from politics and left the Knesset on 20 November 2006. |
| Yuri Stern | Yisrael Beiteinu | David Rotem | Stern died of cancer on 16 January 2007. |
| Dan Naveh | Likud | Yuli-Yoel Edelstein | Naveh resigned to go into business on 27 February 2007. |
| Azmi Bishara | Balad | Said Nafa | Bishara resigned from the Knesset on 22 April 2007 due to a police investigation into his activities during the 2006 Lebanon War. |
| Shimon Peres | Kadima | Isaac Ben-Israel | Peres resigned from the Knesset following his election as president on 13 June 2007. |
| Shlomo Breznitz | Kadima | Yohanan Plesner | Breznitz retired from politics and left the Knesset on 8 October 2007. |
| Avigdor Yitzhaki | Kadima | Shlomo Molla | Yitzhaki resigned from the Knesset on 7 February 2008 due to "serious doubts over Ehud Olmert's ability to lead the government in the wake of the Winograd Report". [1] |
| Shlomo Benizri | Shas | Mazor Bahaina | Benizri resigned from the Knesset on 27 April 2008 after being convicted of bribery. |
| Efraim Sneh | Labor | Shakhiv Shana'an | Sneh resigned from the Knesset on 28 May 2008 as he left Labor to found his own party. |
| Danny Yatom | Labor | Leon Litinetsky | Yatom resigned from the Knesset on 30 June 2008 due to a lack of confidence in the government. |
| Ya'akov Cohen | United Torah Judaism | Uri Maklev | Cohen resigned from the Knesset due to a rotation agreement. |
| Yossi Beilin | Meretz-Yachad | Tzvia Greenfield | Beilin retired from politics and left the Knesset on 4 November 2008. |
| Avraham Ravitz | United Torah Judaism | Yehoshua Menachem Pollack | Ravitz died on 26 January 2009. |
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