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:

List of members[]

	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
Sephardim and Oriental Communities (2)	Eliyahu Eliashar	Party merged into the General Zionists
Poalei Agudat Yisrael (2)	Binyamin Mintz
Poalei Agudat Yisrael (2)	Kalman Kahana
Mizrachi (2)	David-Zvi Pinkas	Replaced by Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir
Mizrachi (2)	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
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