title: List of members of the first Knesset
text: # List of members of the first Knesset
  
  The 120 members of the first Knesset were elected on 25 January 1949. The breakdown by party was as follows:
  
  * Mapai: 46
  * Mapam: 19 (gained one member during the Knesset term)
  * United Religious Front: 16
  * Herut: 14 (lost two members during the Knesset term)
  * General Zionists: 7
  * Progressive Party: 5
  * Sephardim and Oriental Communities: 4
  * Maki: 4 (lost one member during the Knesset term)
  * Democratic List of Nazareth: 2
  * Fighters' List: 1
  * WIZO: 1
  * Yemenite Association: 1
  
  ## Members of the Knesset
  
  | Party | Name | Note |
  | - | - | - |
  | Mapai (46) | Meir Argov | |
  | Mapai (46) | Ami Assaf | |
  | Mapai (46) | Zalman Aran | |
  | Mapai (46) | Yitzhak Ben-Zvi | |
  | Mapai (46) | Aryeh Bahir | |
  | Mapai (46) | David Bar-Rav-Hai | |
  | Mapai (46) | Yosef Beretz | |
  | Mapai (46) | Haim Ben-Asher | |
  | Mapai (46) | David Ben-Gurion | Prime Minister, Minister of Defense |
  | Mapai (46) | Shmuel Dayan | |
  | Mapai (46) | Ben-Zion Dinor | |
  | Mapai (46) | Hasya Drori | |
  | Mapai (46) | Yehiel Duvdevani | |
  | Mapai (46) | Yosef Efrati | |
  | Mapai (46) | Heshel Frumkin | Replaced by Jenia Tversky on 5/2/1951 |
  | Mapai (46) | Shraga Goren | |
  | Mapai (46) | Akiva Govrin | |
  | Mapai (46) | Yisrael Guri | |
  | Mapai (46) | Eliyahu Hacarmeli | |
  | Mapai (46) | David Hacohen | |
  | Mapai (46) | Neta Harpaz | |
  | Mapai (46) | Avraham Herzfeld | |
  | Mapai (46) | Abba Hushi | Replaced by Baruch Osnia on 12/2/1951 |
  | Mapai (46) | Beba Idelson | |
  | Mapai (46) | Eliezer Kaplan | Minister of Finance, Minister of Trade and Industry |
  | Mapai (46) | Yona Kesse | |
  | Mapai (46) | Yosef-Michael Lamm | Replaced by Rafael Bash on 21/5/1951 |
  | Mapai (46) | Shlomo Lavi | |
  | Mapai (46) | Pinhas Lavon | Minister of Agriculture (second government) |
  | Mapai (46) | Eliezer Livna | |
  | Mapai (46) | Ada Maimon | |
  | Mapai (46) | Golda Meir | Minister of Labour and Social Security |
  | Mapai (46) | Peretz Naftali | |
  | Mapai (46) | Dvora Netzer | |
  | Mapai (46) | David Remez | Minister of Transportation (first government), Minister of Education and Culture (second government), replaced by Menachem Cohen on 19/5/1951 |
  | Mapai (46) | Moshe Sharett | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
  | Mapai (46) | Zalman Shazar | Minister of Education and Culture (first government) |
  | Mapai (46) | Aryeh Sheftel | Replaced by Yisrael Yeshayahu on 12/2/1951 |
  | Mapai (46) | Reuven Shari | Deputy Minister of Transportation (second government) |
  | Mapai (46) | Yosef Sprinzak | |
  | Mapai (46) | Yizhar Smilansky | |
  | Mapai (46) | Yehudit Simhonit | Replaced by Herzl Berger on 5/2/1951 |
  | Mapai (46) | Efraim Taburi | |
  | Mapai (46) | Avraham Taviv | Replaced by Yitzhak Kanav on 20/4/1950 |
  | Mapai (46) | Zvi Yehuda | |
  | Mapai (46) | Dov Yosef | Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Rationing and Supply (first government), Minister of Transportation (second government) |
  | Mapam (19) | Moshe Aram | |
  | Mapam (19) | Menachem Bader | |
  | Mapam (19) | Dov Bar-Nir | Replaced by Menachem Ratzon on 10/4/1951 |
  | Mapam (19) | Yisrael Bar-Yehuda | |
  | Mapam (19) | Yitzhak Ben-Aharon | |
  | Mapam (19) | Mordechai Bentov | |
  | Mapam (19) | Yaakov Hazan | |
  | Mapam (19) | Yisrael Galili | |
  | Mapam (19) | Fayge Ilanit | |
  | Mapam (19) | Hannah Lamdan | |
  | Mapam (19) | Nahum Nir | |
  | Mapam (19) | Eliezer Peri | |
  | Mapam (19) | Berl Repetur | |
  | Mapam (19) | Ya'akov Riftin | |
  | Mapam (19) | Hanan Rubin | |
  | Mapam (19) | Moshe Sneh | |
  | Mapam (19) | Yitzhak Tabenkin | Replaced by David Livschitz on 12/4/1951 |
  | Mapam (19) | Meir Yaari | |
  | Mapam (19) | Aharon Zisling | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Yosef Burg | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Moshe Kelmer | Replaced by Eliyahu Mazur on 11/3/1949 |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Avraham-Yehuda Goldrat | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Kalman Kahana | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Meir-David Levenstein | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Yitzhak-Meir Levin | Minister of Welfare |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Yehuda Leib Maimon | Minister of Religions and War Victims |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Benjamin Mintz | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Mordechai Nurock | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | David-Zvi Pinkas | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Avraham-Haim Shag | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Haim-Moshe Shapira | Minister of Health, Minister of Immigration, Minister of Internal Affairs |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Moshe Unna | |
  | United Religious Front (16) | Zerach Warhaftig | |
  | Herut (14) | Menachem Begin | |
  | Herut (14) | Yohanan Bader | |
  | Herut (14) | Aryeh Ben-Eliezer | |
  | Herut (14) | Haim Cohen-Meguri | |
  | Herut (14) | Uri-Zvi Greenberg | |
  | Herut (14) | Ari Jabotinsky | Left the party to sit as an independent |
  | Herut (14) | Shmuel Katz | |
  | Herut (14) | Hillel Kook | Left the party to sit as an independent |
  | Herut (14) | Haim Landau | |
  | Herut (14) | Eliyahu Lankin | |
  | Herut (14) | Yaakov Meridor | |
  | Herut (14) | Shmuel Merlin | |
  | Herut (14) | Avraham Rakanti | |
  | Herut (14) | Esther Raziel-Naor | |
  | General Zionists (7) | Peretz Bernstein | |
  | General Zionists (7) | Ya'akov Gil | |
  | General Zionists (7) | Ya'akov Klivnov | |
  | General Zionists (7) | Shoshana Parsitz | |
  | General Zionists (7) | Israel Rokach | |
  | General Zionists (7) | Yosef Sapir | |
  | General Zionists (7) | Yosef Serlin | |
  | Progressive Party (5) | Idov Cohen | |
  | Progressive Party (5) | Yeshayahu Forder | |
  | Progressive Party (5) | Avraham Granot | |
  | Progressive Party (5) | Yizhar Harari | |
  | Progressive Party (5) | Pinchas Rosen | Minister of Justice |
  | Maki (4) | Shmuel Mikunis | |
  | Maki (4) | Eliezer Preminger | Left to form the Hebrew Communists before joining Mapam |
  | Maki (4) | Tawfik Toubi | |
  | Maki (4) | Meir Vilner | |
  | Sephardim & Oriental Communities (4) | Moshe Ben-Ami | |
  | Sephardim & Oriental Communities (4) | Eliyahu Eliashar | |
  | Sephardim & Oriental Communities (4) | Avraham Elmalih | |
  | Sephardim & Oriental Communities (4) | Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit | Minister of Police |
  | Democratic List of Nazareth (2) | Seif-El-Din El-Zubi | |
  | Democratic List of Nazareth (2) | Amin-Salim Jarjora | |
  | Fighters' List (1) | Nathan Yellin-Mor | |
  | Yemenite Association (1) | Zecharia Glosca | |
  | WIZO (1) | Rachel Cohen-Kagan | |
  
  ### Replacements
  
  | MK | Replaced | Party | Date |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Eliyahu Mazur | Moshe Kelmer | United Religious Front | 11 March 1949 |
  | Yitzhak Kanav | Avraham Taviv | Mapai | 20 April 1950 |
  | Herzl Berger | Yehudit Simhonit | Mapai | 5 February 1951 |
  | Jenia Tversky | Heshel Frumkin | Mapai | 5 February 1951 |
  | Yisrael Yeshayahu | Aryeh Sheftel | Mapai | 12 February 1951 |
  | Baruch Osnia | Abba Hushi | Mapai | 12 February 1951 |
  | Menachem Ratzon | Dov Bar-Nir | Mapam | 10 April 1951 |
  | David Livschitz | Yitzhak Tabenkin | Mapam | 12 April 1951 |
  | Menachem Cohen | David Remez | Mapai | 19 May 1951 |
  | Rafael Bash | Yosef-Michael Lamm | Mapai | 21 May 1951 |
  