title: List of members of the sixteenth Knesset
text: # List of members of the sixteenth Knesset
  
  The 120 members of the sixteenth Knesset were elected on 28 January 2003. The breakdown by party was as follows:
  
  * Likud: 38
  * Labor Party-Meimad: 19
  * Shinui: 15
  * Shas: 11
  * National Union: 7
  * Meretz-Yachad and the Democratic Choice: 6
  * National Religious Party: 6
  * United Torah Judaism: 5
  * Hadash-Ta'al: 3
  * One Nation: 3
  * Balad: 3
  * Yisrael BaAliyah: 2
  * United Arab List: 2
  
  ## List of members
  
  | Party | MK | Notes |
  | - | - | - |
  | Likud | Ariel Sharon | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Binyamin Netanyahu |
  | Likud | Tzachi Hanegbi | Left the party to join Kadima, replaced by Pnina Rosenblum (Likud) on 10 December 2005 |
  | Likud | Silvan Shalom |
  | Likud | Dan Naveh |
  | Likud | Limor Livnat |
  | Likud | Yisrael Katz |
  | Likud | Gideon Ezra | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Naomi Blumenthal |
  | Likud | Uzi Landau |
  | Likud | Gila Gamliel |
  | Likud | Yuval Steinitz |
  | Likud | Tzipi Livni | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Michael Eitan |
  | Likud | Meir Sheetrit | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | David Levy |
  | Likud | Ruhama Avraham | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Gideon Sa'ar |
  | Likud | Daniel Benlulu |
  | Likud | Michael Ratzon |
  | Likud | Majalli Wahabi | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Yaakov Edri | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Ehud Yatom |
  | Likud | Eli Aflalo | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Moshe Kahlon |
  | Likud | Omri Sharon | Replaced by David Mena (Likud) on 5 January 2006 |
  | Likud | Michael Gorlovsky |
  | Likud | Inbal Gavrieli |
  | Likud | Gilad Erdan |
  | Likud | Roni Bar-On | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Yehiel Hazan |
  | Likud | Ehud Olmert | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Leah Ness |
  | Likud | Ze'ev Boim | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Avraham Hirschson | Left the party to join Kadima |
  | Likud | Reuven Rivlin |
  | Likud | Haim Katz |
  | Likud | Ayoob Kara |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Amram Mitzna | Replaced by Salah Tarif on 23 February 2005 |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Binyamin Ben-Eliezer |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Shimon Peres | Replaced by Wizman Shiry on 17 January 2006 when he left to join Kadima |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Matan Vilnai |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Avraham Burg | Replaced by Raleb Majadele on 28 June 2004 |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Dalia Itzik | Replaced by Avi Yehezkel on 17 January 2006 when she left to join Kadima |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Ophir Pines-Paz |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Efraim Sneh |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Yuli Tamir |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Michael Melchior |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Isaac Herzog |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Haim Ramon | Replaced by Efi Oshaya on 18 January 2006 when he left to join Kadima |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Danny Yatom |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Eitan Cabel |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Avraham Shochat |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Colette Avital |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Shalom Simhon |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Orit Noked |
  | Labor Party-Meimad | Eli Ben-Menachem |
  | Shinui | Tommy Lapid | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006 |
  | Shinui | Avraham Poraz | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006 |
  | Shinui | Yehudit Naot | Replaced by Erela Golan on 16 December 2004 |
  | Shinui | Yosef Paritzky | Left party to form Tzalash |
  | Shinui | Eliezer Sandberg | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006, then split to form National Home |
  | Shinui | Victor Brailovsky | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006 |
  | Shinui | Ilan Shalgi | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006 |
  | Shinui | Meli Polishook-Bloch | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006 |
  | Shinui | Reshef Hen | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006 |
  | Shinui | Roni Brizon | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006 |
  | Shinui | Ehud Rassabi |
  | Shinui | Eti Livni | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006 |
  | Shinui | Ilan Leibovitch |
  | Shinui | Hemi Doron | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006, then split to form National Home |
  | Shinui | Yigal Yasinov | Left to form HaOlim, which merged into the Yisrael Beiteinu faction of the National Union (Yisrael Beiteinu later broke away) |
  | Shas | Eli Yishai |
  | Shas | Shlomo Benizri |
  | Shas | Nissim Dahan |
  | Shas | Amnon Cohen |
  | Shas | Yitzhak Cohen |
  | Shas | David Azulai |
  | Shas | Meshulam Nahari |
  | Shas | Yitzhak Vaknin |
  | Shas | Yair Peretz | Replaced by Ofer Hugi on 25 March 2006 |
  | Shas | Nissim Ze'ev |
  | Shas | Ya'akov Margi |
  | National Union | Avigdor Lieberman | Replaced by Eliezer Cohen on 26 March 2003 |
  | National Union | Binyamin Elon |
  | National Union | Yuri Stern | Yisrael Beiteinu broke away from National Union |
  | National Union | Zvi Hendel |
  | National Union | Michael Nudelman | Left the party to sit as an independent, replaced by Esterina Tartman (Yisrael Beiteinu) on 8 February 2006 |
  | National Union | Uri Ariel |
  | National Union | Aryeh Eldad |
  | Meretz-Yachad | Yossi Sarid |
  | Meretz-Yachad | Haim Oron |
  | Meretz-Yachad | Ran Cohen |
  | Meretz-Yachad | Zehava Gal-On |
  | Meretz-Yachad | Roman Bronfman |
  | Meretz-Yachad | Avshalom Vilan |
  | National Religious Party | Effi Eitam | Broke away to form the Renewed National Religious Zionism Party |
  | National Religious Party | Zevulun Orlev |
  | National Religious Party | Shaul Yahalom |
  | National Religious Party | Yitzhak Levy | Broke away to form the Renewed National Religious Zionism Party |
  | National Religious Party | Gila Finkelstein |
  | National Religious Party | Nissan Slomiansky |
  | United Torah Judaism | Ya'akov Litzman | Party split, stayed in Agudat Yisrael faction |
  | United Torah Judaism | Avraham Ravitz | Party split, stayed in Degel HaTorah faction |
  | United Torah Judaism | Meir Porush | Party split, stayed in Agudat Yisrael faction |
  | United Torah Judaism | Moshe Gafni | Party split, stayed in Degel HaTorah faction |
  | United Torah Judaism | Yisrael Eichler | Party split, stayed in Agudat Yisrael faction, replaced by Shmuel Halpert on 23 February 2005 |
  | Hadash | Mohammad Barakeh |
  | Hadash | Issam Makhoul |
  | Hadash | Ahmad Tibi | Split from party to have Ta'al as an independent party |
  | One Nation | Amir Peretz | Party merged into Labor Party-Meimad |
  | One Nation | Ilana Cohen | Party merged into Labor Party-Meimad |
  | One Nation | David Tal | Split to form Noy, then merged into Kadima |
  | Balad | Azmi Bishara |
  | Balad | Jamal Zahalka |
  | Balad | Wasil Taha |
  | Yisrael BaAliyah | Marina Solodkin | Party merged into Likud |
  | Yisrael BaAliyah | Yuli-Yoel Edelstein | Party merged into Likud |
  | United Arab List | Abdulmalik Dehamshe |
  | United Arab List | Taleb el-Sana |
  
  ### Replacements
  
  | MK | Replaced | Date | Party | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Eliezer Cohen | Avigdor Lieberman | 26 March 2003 | National Union | Yisrael Beiteinu left the Union on 1 February |
  | Raleb Majadele | Avraham Burg | 28 June 2004 | Labor Party-Meimad |
  | Erela Golan | Yehudit Naot | 16 December 2004 | Shinui | Left party to join the Secular Faction on 26 January 2006 |
  | Shmuel Halpert | Yisrael Eichler | 23 February 2005 | Agudat Yisrael |
  | Salah Tarif | Amram Mitzna | 23 February 2005 | Labor Party-Meimad | Replaced by Ronen Tzur on 22 January 2006 |
  | Pnina Rosenblum | Tzachi Hanegbi | 10 December 2005 | Likud |
  | David Mena | Omri Sharon | 5 January 2006 | Likud |
  | Sofa Landver | Avraham Shochat | 11 January 2006 | Labor Party-Meimad | Replaced by Orna Angel on 8 February 2006 |
  | Wizman Shiry | Shimon Peres | 17 January 2006 | Labor Party-Meimad |
  | Avi Yehezkel | Dalia Itzik | 17 January 2006 | Labor Party-Meimad | Replaced by Dani Koren on 28 January 2006 |
  | Efi Oshaya | Haim Ramon | 18 January 2006 | Labor Party-Meimad | Replaced by Tova Ilan on 21 January 2006 |
  | Tova Ilan | Efi Oshaya | 21 January 2006 | Labor Party-Meimad |
  | Ronen Tzur | Salah Tarif | 22 January 2006 | Labor Party-Meimad |
  | Dani Koren | Avi Yehezkel | 28 January 2006 | Labor Party-Meimad |
  | Esterina Tartman | Michael Nudelman | 8 February 2006 | Yisrael Beiteinu |
  | Orna Angel | Sofa Landver | 8 February 2006 | Labor Party-Meimad | Replaced by Neta Dobrin on 15 February 2006 |
  | Neta Dobrin | Orna Angel | 15 February 2006 | Labor Party-Meimad |
  | Ofer Hugi | Yair Peretz | 25 March 2006 | Shas |
  