title: List of members of the eighth Knesset
text: # List of members of the eighth Knesset
  
  The 120 members of the eighth Knesset were elected on 31 December 1973. The breakdown by party was as follows:
  
  * Alignment: 51
  * Likud: 39
  * National Religious Party: 10
  * Religious Torah Front: 5
  * Independent Liberals: 4
  * Rakah: 4
  * Ratz: 3
  * Progress and Development: 2
  * Moked: 1
  * Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers: 1
  
  The eighth Knesset was sworn in on 21 January 1974.
  
  ## List of members
  
  | Member | Party | Notes |
  | - | - | - |
  | Yigal Allon | Alignment |
  | Yosef Almogi | Alignment |
  | Adiel Amorai | Alignment |
  | Ari Ankorion | Alignment |
  | Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino | Alignment |
  | Moshe Baram | Alignment |
  | Yitzhak Ben-Aharon | Alignment |
  | Mordechai Ben-Porat | Alignment | Left party to sit as an independent |
  | Moshe Carmel | Alignment |
  | David Coren | Alignment |
  | Moshe Dayan | Alignment |
  | Yehuda Dranitzki | Alignment | Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment |
  | Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi | Alignment |
  | Abba Eban | Alignment |
  | Aharon Efrat | Alignment | Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment |
  | Aryeh Eliav | Alignment | Left party to sit as an independent, before establishing Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement and then forming the Independent Socialist Faction |
  | Uzi Feinerman | Alignment |
  | Yisrael Galili | Alignment |
  | Avraham Givelber | Alignment |
  | Haika Grossman | Alignment | Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment |
  | Zvi Guershoni | Alignment |
  | Mathilda Guez | Alignment |
  | Menachem Hacohen | Alignment |
  | Ben-Zion Halfon | Alignment |
  | Michael Harish | Alignment |
  | Esther Herlitz | Alignment |
  | Shlomo Hillel | Alignment |
  | Yisrael Kargman | Alignment |
  | Nuzhat Katzav | Alignment |
  | Shalom Levin | Alignment |
  | Golda Meir | Alignment |
  | Eliyahu Moyal | Alignment |
  | Ora Namir | Alignment |
  | Yitzhak Navon | Alignment |
  | Avraham Ofer | Alignment |
  | Shimon Peres | Alignment |
  | Yitzhak Rabin | Alignment |
  | Eliezer Ronen | Alignment | Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment |
  | Pinchas Sapir | Alignment |
  | Yossi Sarid | Alignment |
  | Moshe Shahal | Alignment |
  | Meir Talmi | Alignment | Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment |
  | Moshe Wertman | Alignment |
  | Gad Yaacobi | Alignment |
  | Aharon Yadlin | Alignment |
  | Aviad Yafeh | Alignment |
  | Aharon Yariv | Alignment |
  | Yisrael Yeshayahu | Alignment |
  | Haim Yosef Zadok | Alignment |
  | Dov Zakin | Alignment | Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment |
  | Avraham Zilberberg | Alignment |
  | Zalman Abramov | Likud |
  | Moshe Arens | Likud |
  | Yoram Aridor | Likud |
  | Yohanan Bader | Likud |
  | Yedidia Be'eri | Likud |
  | Menachem Begin | Likud |
  | Meir Cohen-Avidov | Likud |
  | Geula Cohen | Likud |
  | Haim Corfu | Likud |
  | Matityahu Drobles | Likud |
  | Leon Dycian | Likud |
  | Simha Erlich | Likud |
  | Yehezkel Flomin | Likud |
  | Pesah Grupper | Likud |
  | Binyamin Halevi | Likud | Left party to sit as an independent |
  | Yigal Hurvitz | Likud |
  | Avraham Katz | Likud |
  | Ben-Zion Keshet | Likud |
  | Yosef Kremerman | Likud |
  | Haim Landau | Likud |
  | David Levy | Likud |
  | Amnon Linn | Likud |
  | Eitan Livni | Likud |
  | Yitzhak Moda'i | Likud |
  | Moshe Nissim | Likud |
  | Akiva Nof | Likud | Left party to establish the Free Centre |
  | Ehud Olmert | Likud |
  | Gideon Patt | Likud |
  | Yitzhak Peretz | Likud |
  | Elimelekh Rimalt | Likud |
  | Yitzhak Shamir | Likud |
  | Ariel Sharon | Likud |
  | Avraham Shekhterman | Likud |
  | Eliezer Shostak | Likud |
  | Zalman Shoval | Likud |
  | Shmuel Tamir | Likud | Left party to establish the Free Centre |
  | Yosef Tamir | Likud |
  | Menachem Yedid | Likud |
  | Avraham Yoffe | Likud |
  | Aharon Abuhatzira | National Religious Party |
  | Eliezer Avtabi | National Religious Party |
  | Yehuda Ben-Meir | National Religious Party |
  | Yosef Burg | National Religious Party |
  | Michael Hasani | National Religious Party |
  | Zevulun Hammer | National Religious Party |
  | Avraham Melamed | National Religious Party |
  | Yitzhak Rafael | National Religious Party |
  | Pinhas Scheinman | National Religious Party |
  | Zerach Warhaftig | National Religious Party |
  | Yehuda Meir Abramowicz | Religious Torah Front | When party split, represented Agudat Yisrael |
  | Kalman Kahana | Religious Torah Front | When party split, represented Poalei Agudat Yisrael |
  | Shlomo Lorincz | Religious Torah Front | When party split, represented Agudat Yisrael |
  | Menachem Porush | Religious Torah Front |
  | Avraham Verdiger | Religious Torah Front | When party split, represented Poalei Agudat Yisrael |
  | Gideon Hausner | Independent Liberals |
  | Moshe Kol | Independent Liberals |
  | Hillel Seidel | Independent Liberals | Left party and joined Likud |
  | Yehuda Sha'ari | Independent Liberals |
  | Avraham Levenbraun | Rakah | Party merged into Hadash |
  | Tawfik Toubi | Rakah | Party merged into Hadash |
  | Meir Vilner | Rakah | Party merged into Hadash |
  | Tawfiq Ziad | Rakah | Party merged into Hadash |
  | Shulamit Aloni | Ratz | Party briefly merged into Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement before becoming independent again |
  | Marcia Freedman | Ratz | Party merged into Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement. When it split, Freedman joined the Independent Socialist Faction. |
  | Boaz Moav | Ratz | Party briefly merged into Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement before becoming independent again |
  | Seif el-Din el-Zoubi | Progress and Development | Party merged into the Alignment, before leaving and later establishing the United Arab List |
  | Jabr Muadi | Progress and Development | Party merged into the Alignment, before leaving and later establishing the United Arab List |
  | Meir Pa'il | Moked |
  | Hamad Abu Rabia | Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers | Party merged into the Alignment, before leaving and later merging into the United Arab List |
  
  ### Replacements
  
  | MK | Replaced | Date | Party | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 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 |
  