title: List of members of the second Knesset
text: # 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:
  
  * Mapai: 45
  * General Zionists: 20
  * Mapam: 15
  * Hapoel HaMizrachi: 8
  * Herut: 8
  * Maki: 5
  * Progressive Party: 4
  * Democratic List for Israeli Arabs: 3
  * Agudat Yisrael: 3
  * Sephardim and Oriental Communities: 2
  * Poalei Agudat Yisrael: 2
  * Mizrachi: 2
  * Progress and Work: 1
  * Yemenite Association: 1
  * Agriculture and Development: 1
  
  ## List of members
  
  | Party | Name | Notes |
  | - | - | - |
  | Mapai (45) | Ada Maimon | |
  | Mapai (45) | Akiva Govrin | |
  | Mapai (45) | Ami Assaf | |
  | Mapai (45) | Avraham Herzfeld | |
  | Mapai (45) | Baruch Osnia| | |
  | Mapai (45) | Beba Idelson | |
  | Mapai (45) | Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit | |
  | Mapai (45) | Haim Ben-Asher | |
  | Mapai (45) | David Bar-Rav-Hai | |
  | Mapai (45) | David Ben-Gurion | Prime Minister (1951–54), Minister of Defense |
  | Mapai (45) | David Hacohen | Replaced by Baruch Kamin |
  | Mapai (45) | Dvora Netzer | |
  | Mapai (45) | Dov Yosef | |
  | Mapai (45) | Eliezer Kaplan | Replaced by Avraham Kalfon |
  | Mapai (45) | Eliezer Livna | |
  | Mapai (45) | Eliyahu Hacarmeli | Replaced by Shlomo Hillel |
  | Mapai (45) | Efraim Taburi | |
  | Mapai (45) | Golda Meir | |
  | Mapai (45) | Herzl Berger | |
  | Mapai (45) | Yisrael Guri | |
  | Mapai (45) | Jenia Tversky | |
  | Mapai (45) | Yosef Sprinzak | |
  | Mapai (45) | Kadish Luz | |
  | Mapai (45) | Levi Eshkol | |
  | Mapai (45) | Meir Argov | |
  | Mapai (45) | Mordechai Namir | |
  | Mapai (45) | Moshe Sharett | Prime Minister (1954–55), Minister of Foreign Affairs |
  | Mapai (45) | Peretz Naftali | |
  | Mapai (45) | Pinhas Lavon | |
  | Mapai (45) | Reuven Feldman | |
  | Mapai (45) | Reuven Shari | |
  | Mapai (45) | Sarah Kafrit | |
  | Mapai (45) | Shlomo Lavi | |
  | Mapai (45) | Shmuel Dayan | |
  | Mapai (45) | Zalman Shazar | |
  | Mapai (45) | Ya'akov Uri | |
  | Mapai (45) | Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira | |
  | Mapai (45) | Yehezkel Hen | Replaced by Rachel Tzabari |
  | Mapai (45) | Yisrael Yeshayahu | |
  | Mapai (45) | Yitzhak Ben-Zvi | Replaced by Ya'akov Nitzani |
  | Mapai (45) | Yizhar Smilansky | |
  | Mapai (45) | Yona Kesse | |
  | Mapai (45) | Yosef Efrati | |
  | Mapai (45) | Zalman Aran | |
  | Mapai (45) | Ze'ev Shefer | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Avraham Stop | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Batsheva Katznelson | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Ben-Zion Harel | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Haim Ariav | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Haim Boger | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Elimelekh Rimalt | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Ezra Ichilov | |
  | General Zionists (20) | George Flash | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Israel Rokach | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Nahum Het | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Peretz Bernstein | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Shalom Zisman | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Shimon Bejarano | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Shlomo Perlstein | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Shoshana Parsitz | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Simha Babah | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Ya'akov Klivnov | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Yosef Sapir | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Yosef Serlin | |
  | General Zionists (20) | Zalman Suzayiv | |
  | Mapam (15) | Eliezer Peri | |
  | Mapam (15) | Hanan Rubin | |
  | Mapam (15) | Meir Ya'ari | Leader of the Opposition (1952-55) |
  | Mapam (15) | Mordechai Bentov | |
  | Mapam (15) | Ya'akov Hazan | |
  | Mapam (15) | Ya'akov Riftin | |
  | Mapam (15) | Aharon Zisling | Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion |
  | Mapam (15) | Israel Bar-Yehuda | Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion |
  | Mapam (15) | Moshe Aram | Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion |
  | Mapam (15) | Yitzhak Ben-Aharon | Left Mapam to establish Ahdut HaAvoda - Poale Zion |
  | Mapam (15) | David Livschitz | Left Mapam to establish the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda, before joining Mapai |
  | Mapam (15) | Hannah Lamdan | Left Mapam to establish the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda, before joining Mapai |
  | Mapam (15) | Adolf Berman | Left Mapam to establish the Left Faction, before joining Maki |
  | Mapam (15) | Moshe Sneh | Left Mapam to establish the Left Faction, before joining Maki |
  | Mapam (15) | Rostam Bastuni | Left Mapam to establish the Left Faction, before returning to Mapam |
  | Hapoel HaMizrachi (8) | Eliyahu-Moshe Ganhovsky | |
  | Hapoel HaMizrachi (8) | Haim-Moshe Shapira | |
  | Hapoel HaMizrachi (8) | Michael Hasani | |
  | Hapoel HaMizrachi (8) | Moshe Kelmer | |
  | Hapoel HaMizrachi (8) | Moshe Unna | |
  | Hapoel HaMizrachi (8) | Yitzhak Rafael | |
  | Hapoel HaMizrachi (8) | Yosef Burg | |
  | Hapoel HaMizrachi (8) | Zerach Warhaftig | |
  | Herut (8) | Aryeh Altman | |
  | Herut (8) | Aryeh Ben-Eliezer | Replaced by Haim Cohen-Meguri |
  | Herut (8) | Binyamin Avniel | |
  | Herut (8) | Esther Raziel-Naor | |
  | Herut (8) | Haim Landau | |
  | Herut (8) | Menachem Begin | |
  | Herut (8) | Ya'akov Meridor | Replaced by Eliezer Shostak |
  | Herut (8) | Yohanan Bader | |
  | Maki (5) | Emile Habibi | |
  | Maki (5) | Esther Vilenska | |
  | Maki (5) | Meir Vilner | |
  | Maki (5) | Shmuel Mikunis | |
  | Maki (5) | Tawfik Toubi | |
  | Progressive Party (4) | Avraham Granot | Replaced by Yeshayahu Forder |
  | Progressive Party (4) | Moshe Kol | Replaced by Idov Cohen |
  | Progressive Party (4) | Pinchas Rosen | |
  | Progressive Party (4) | Yizhar Harari | |
  | Democratic List for Israeli Arabs (3) | Jabr Moade | |
  | Democratic List for Israeli Arabs (3) | Masaad Kassis | |
  | Democratic List for Israeli Arabs (3) | Seif el-Din el-Zubi | |
  | Agudat Yisrael (3) | Avraham Deutsch | Replaced by Zalman Ben-Ya'akov |
  | Agudat Yisrael (3) | Shlomo Lorincz | |
  | Agudat Yisrael (3) | 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 |
  