List of members of the Knesset who died in office

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The following is a list of members of the Knesset who died in office.

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MemberPartyDate of deathAge at death (years)Cause
Avraham Taviv Mapai 20 April 1950 [1] 60-61
Yehezkel Hen Mapai 4 April 195269-70
Eliezer Kaplan Mapai 13 July 195261 [2]
David-Zvi Pinkas Mizrachi 14 August 1952 [3] 56Heart disease [4]
Eliyahu Hacarmeli Mapai 21 December 195261
Avraham Deutsch Agudat Yisrael 25 May 195363-64
Yitzhak Yitzhaky Mapam 21 September 195552
Haim Ariav General Zionists 18 June 195762 [5]
Avraham Abaas Ahdut HaAvoda 17 September 195845-46
Yosef Sprinzak [6] Mapai 28 January 195973
Zalman Ben-Ya'akov Religious Torah Front 2 March 195961-62
Shimshon Unichman Herut 21 March 196154
Binyamin Mintz PAI 30 May 196158
Giora Yoseftal Mapai 23 August 196250 [7]
Herzl Berger Mapai 29 August 196258 [8]
Hanan Rubin Mapam 24 October 196254 [9]
Mordechai Nurock Mafdal 9 November 196274Heart disease [10]
Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg Mafdal 2 April 196363
Ami Assaf Mapai 17 May 1963 [11] 61Heart attack [12]
Meir Argov Mapai 24 November 196357Heart attack [13]
Jenia Tversky Mapai 9 April 196459
Avraham Drori Herut 20 August 196445 [14]
Yisrael Bar-Yehuda Ahdut HaAvoda 4 May 196569
Moshe Sharett Mapai 7 July 196570Lung cancer [15]
Eliyahu Meridor Gahal 16 October 1966 [16] 52
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit Alignment 28 January 1967 [17] 71-72
Ya'akov Katz PAI 21 December 196760
Levi Eshkol Labor 26 February 196973Heart attack [18]
Aryeh Ben-Eliezer Gahal 29 January 197056
Haim-Moshe Shapira Mafdal 16 July 197068 [19]
Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir Mafdal 4 April 197160
Yitzhak-Meir Levin Agudat Yisrael 7 August 1971 [20] 78
Mordechai Ofer Alignment 1 September 197147
Yosef Sapir Gahal 26 February 197270 [21]
Moshe Sneh Maki 1 March 1972 [22] 63
Reuven Barkat Alignment 5 April 197265
Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi Alignment 14 February 1974 [23] 48
Uzi Feinerman Alignment 8 April 197550-51
Michael Hasani Mafdal 2 July 197562
Pinchas Sapir Alignment 12 August 197568Heart attack [24]
Zvi Guershoni Alignment 1 September 197660-61
Avraham Ofer Alignment 3 January 197754-55Suicide [25]
Yehoshua Rabinovitz Alignment 14 August 197967Heart attack [26]
Yigal Allon Alignment 29 February 198061Heart failure [27]
Hamad Abu Rabia Ra'am 12 January 198151-52Assassinated [28]
Hanna Mwais Hadash 13 February 1981 [29] 67-68
Moshe Dayan Telem (1981 political party) 16 October 198166Heart attack, colon cancer [30]
Moshe Harif Alignment 15 January 198248Traffic collision [31]
David Shiffman Likud 18 October 198259
Simcha Erlich Likud 19 June 1983 [32] 67
Yitzhak Seiger Likud 5 February 198548
Michael Reisser Likud 27 October 198842Traffic collision [33]
Yigal Cohen Likud 6 December 198859-60
Tawfiq Ziad Hadash 5 July 199465Traffic collision [34]
Mordechai Gur Labor 16 July 199565Suicide [35]
Haim Kaufman Likud 7 August 199560
Yitzhak Rabin Labor 4 November 199573 Assassinated [36]
Ariel Weinstein Likud 20 July 199663Heart attack [37]
Avraham Stern Mafdal 12 May 199761
Zevulun Hammer Mafdal 20 January 199861 [38]
Rehavam Ze'evi National Union 17 October 200175 Assassinated during the Second Intifada [39]
Yehudit Naot Shinui 16 December 200460Throat cancer [40]
Yuri Stern Yisrael Beiteinu 16 January 200757Cancer [41]
Avraham Ravitz UTJ 26 January 200957Heart disease [42]
Ze'ev Boim Kadima 18 March 201167Cancer [43]
Gideon Ezra Kadima 17 May 201274Lung cancer [44]
Uri Orbach Jewish Home 16 February 201554Chronic hematologic disease [45]
Said al-Harumi Ra'am 25 August 202149Heart attack [46]

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