title: List of members of the fifth Knesset
text: # List of members of the fifth Knesset
  
  The 120 members of the fifth Knesset were elected on 1 August 1961. The breakdown by party was as follows:
  
  * Mapai: 42
  * Herut: 17
  * Liberal Party: 17
  * National Religious Party: 12
  * Mapam: 9
  * Ahdut HaAvoda: 8
  * Maki: 5
  * Agudat Yisrael: 4
  * Poalei Agudat Yisrael: 2
  * Cooperation and Brotherhood: 2
  * Progress and Development: 2
  
  ## Members of the Fifth Knesset
  
  | Party | Name |
  | - | - |
  | Mapai (42) | Yosef Almogi (until 1965) |
  | Mapai (42) | Zalman Aran |
  | Mapai (42) | Meir Argov |
  | Mapai (42) | Ami Assaf |
  | Mapai (42) | David Bar-Rav-Hai |
  | Mapai (42) | Moshe Baram |
  | Mapai (42) | Aharon Becker |
  | Mapai (42) | David Ben-Gurion (until 1965) |
  | Mapai (42) | Herzl Berger |
  | Mapai (42) | Menachem Cohen |
  | Mapai (42) | Yitzhak Coren |
  | Mapai (42) | Moshe Dayan (until 1965) |
  | Mapai (42) | Amos Degani (until 1965) |
  | Mapai (42) | Abba Eban |
  | Mapai (42) | Yosef Efrati |
  | Mapai (42) | Levi Eshkol |
  | Mapai (42) | Yosef Fischer |
  | Mapai (42) | Akiva Govrin |
  | Mapai (42) | Yisrael Guri |
  | Mapai (42) | David Hacohen |
  | Mapai (42) | Asher Hassin |
  | Mapai (42) | Avraham Herzfeld |
  | Mapai (42) | Beba Idelson |
  | Mapai (42) | Yisrael Kargman |
  | Mapai (42) | Yona Kesse (until 1964) |
  | Mapai (42) | Kadish Luz |
  | Mapai (42) | Golda Meir |
  | Mapai (42) | Mordechai Namir |
  | Mapai (42) | Dvora Netzer |
  | Mapai (42) | Baruch Osnia |
  | Mapai (42) | Shimon Peres (until 1965) |
  | Mapai (42) | David Petel |
  | Mapai (42) | Pinchas Sapir |
  | Mapai (42) | Moshe Sardines |
  | Mapai (42) | Moshe Sharett |
  | Mapai (42) | Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit |
  | Mapai (42) | Shmuel Shoresh |
  | Mapai (42) | Yizhar Smilansky (until 1965) |
  | Mapai (42) | Rachel Tzabari |
  | Mapai (42) | Yisrael Yeshayahu |
  | Mapai (42) | Giora Yoseftal |
  | Mapai (42) | Haim Yosef Zadok |
  | Herut (17) | Aryeh Altman |
  | Herut (17) | Binyamin Arditi |
  | Herut (17) | Binyamin Avniel |
  | Herut (17) | Yohanan Bader |
  | Herut (17) | Menachem Begin |
  | Herut (17) | Aryeh Ben-Eliezer |
  | Herut (17) | Haim Cohen-Meguri |
  | Herut (17) | Avraham Drori |
  | Herut (17) | Haim Landau |
  | Herut (17) | Nahum Levin |
  | Herut (17) | Eliyahu Meridor |
  | Herut (17) | Ya'akov Meridor |
  | Herut (17) | Esther Raziel-Naor |
  | Herut (17) | Shabtai Shikhman |
  | Herut (17) | Yosef Shofman |
  | Herut (17) | Eliezer Shostak |
  | Herut (17) | Avraham Tiar |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Zalman Abramov |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Peretz Bernstein |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Benno Cohen (until 1965) |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Idov Cohen |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Rachel Cohen-Kagan (until 1965) |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Yitzhak Golan (until 1965) |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Yizhar Harari (until 1965) |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Yitzhak Klinghoffer |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Moshe Kol (until 1965) |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Shlomo Perlstein |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Elimelekh Rimalt |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Pinchas Rosen (until 1965) |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Yosef Sapir |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Yosef Serlin |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Yehuda Sha'ari (until 1965) |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Baruch Uziel |
  | Liberal Party (17) | Zvi Zimmerman |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Yosef Burg |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Michael Hasani |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Mordechai Nurock |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Yitzhak Rafael |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Tova Sanhadray |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Binyamin Shahor |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Haim-Moshe Shapira |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Moshe Unna |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Zerach Warhaftig |
  | National Religious Party (12) | Frija Zoaretz |
  | Mapam (9) | Yisrael Barzilai |
  | Mapam (9) | Mordechai Bentov |
  | Mapam (9) | Ya'akov Hazan |
  | Mapam (9) | Yussuf Hamis |
  | Mapam (9) | Ya'akov Riftin |
  | Mapam (9) | Hanan Rubin |
  | Mapam (9) | Victor Shem-Tov |
  | Mapam (9) | Emma Talmi |
  | Mapam (9) | Meir Ya'ari |
  | Ahdut HaAvoda (8) | Yigal Allon |
  | Ahdut HaAvoda (8) | Yisrael Bar-Yehuda |
  | Ahdut HaAvoda (8) | Yitzhak Ben-Aharon |
  | Ahdut HaAvoda (8) | Mordechai Bibi |
  | Ahdut HaAvoda (8) | Moshe Carmel |
  | Ahdut HaAvoda (8) | Yisrael Galili |
  | Ahdut HaAvoda (8) | Ruth Haktin |
  | Ahdut HaAvoda (8) | Nahum Nir |
  | Rafi (8) | Yosef Almogi (after 1965) |
  | Rafi (8) | Gideon Ben-Yisrael |
  | Rafi (8) | David Ben-Gurion (after 1965) |
  | Rafi (8) | Moshe Dayan (after 1965) |
  | Rafi (8) | Amos Degani (after 1965) |
  | Rafi (8) | Hannah Lamdan |
  | Rafi (8) | Shimon Peres (after 1965) |
  | Rafi (8) | Yizhar Smilansky (after 1965) |
  | Independent Liberals (7) | Benno Cohen (after 1965) |
  | Independent Liberals (7) | Rachel Cohen-Kagan (after 1965) |
  | Independent Liberals (7) | Yitzhak Golan (after 1965) |
  | Independent Liberals (7) | Yizhar Harari (after 1965) |
  | Independent Liberals (7) | Moshe Kol (after 1965) |
  | Independent Liberals (7) | Pinchas Rosen (after 1965) |
  | Independent Liberals (7) | Yehuda Sha'ari (after 1965) |
  | Maki (5) | Shmuel Mikunis |
  | Maki (5) | Moshe Sneh |
  | Maki (5) | Esther Vilenska |
  | Maki (5) | Meir Vilner (until 1965) |
  | Maki (5) | Tawfik Toubi (until 1965) |
  | Agudat Yisrael (4) | Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross |
  | Agudat Yisrael (4) | Yitzhak-Meir Levin |
  | Agudat Yisrael (4) | Shlomo Lorincz |
  | Agudat Yisrael (4) | Menachem Porush |
  | Poalei Agudat Yisrael (2) | Kalman Kahana |
  | Poalei Agudat Yisrael (2) | Ya'akov Katz |
  | Rakah (2) | Meir Vilner (after 1965) |
  | Rakah (2) | Tawfik Toubi (after 1965) |
  | Cooperation and Brotherhood (2) | Jabr Muadi |
  | Cooperation and Brotherhood (2) | Diyab Obeid |
  | Progress and Development (2) | Ahmed A-Dahar |
  | Progress and Development (2) | Elias Nakhleh |
  
  ### Replacements
  
  | MK | Replaced | Party | Date | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Emile Habibi | Meir Vilner | Maki | 9 October 1961 | Left party to form Rakah |
  | Hannah Lamdan | Giora Yoseftal | Mapai | 23 August 1962 | Left party to form Rafi |
  | Gideon Ben-Yisrael | Herzl Berger | Mapai | 24 October 1962 | Left party to form Rafi |
  | Yosef Kushnir | Hanan Rubin | Mapam | 24 October 1962 |
  | Shalom-Avraham Shaki | Mordechai Nurock | National Religious Party | 8 November 1962 |
  | Moshe Kelmer | Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg | National Religious Party | 2 April 1963 |
  | Mordechai Zar | Ami Assaf | Mapai | 17 May 1963 |
  | Aharon Goldstein | Idov Cohen | Liberal Party | 11 November 1963 | Party merged with Herut to form Gahal |
  | Jenia Tversky | Meir Argov | Mapai | 24 November 1963 |
  | Aharon Yadlin | Jenia Tversky | Mapai | 4 May 1964 |
  | Halil-Salim Jabara | Yitzhak Ben-Aharon | Ahdut HaAvoda | 11 May 1964 |
  | Yosef Kremerman | Avraham Drori | Herut | 20 August 1964 | Party merged with the Liberal Party to form Gahal |
  | Moshe Aram | Yisrael Bar-Yehuda | Ahdut HaAvoda | 4 May 1865 |
  | Ari Ankorion | Moshe Sharett | Mapai | 7 July 1965 |
  