List of members of the twelfth Knesset

The 120 members of the twelfth Knesset were elected on 1 November 1988. The breakdown by party was as follows:

• Likud: 40
• Alignment: 39
• Shas: 6
• Agudat Yisrael: 5
• Ratz: 5
• National Religious Party: 5
• Hadash: 4
• Tehiya: 3
• Mapam: 3
• Tzomet: 2
• Moledet: 2
• Shinui: 2
• Degel HaTorah: 2
• Progressive List for Peace: 1
• Arab Democratic Party: 1

List of members

Member	Party	Notes
Aharon Abuhatzira	Likud
Shaul Amor	Likud
Moshe Arens	Likud
Benny Begin	Likud
Eliyahu Ben-Elissar	Likud
Yigal Cohen	Likud
Haim Corfu	Likud
Sarah Doron	Likud
Michael Eitan	Likud
Ovadia Eli	Likud
Gideon Gadot	Likud
Yosef Goldberg	Likud	Left party to establish the New Liberal Party, but later returned to Likud
Pinchas Goldstein	Likud	Left party to establish the New Liberal Party
Pesach Grupper	Likud	Left party to establish the New Liberal Party
Tzachi Hanegbi	Likud
Yigal Hurvitz	Likud
Moshe Katsav	Likud
Uzi Landau	Likud
David Levy	Likud
Uriel Lynn	Likud
David Magen	Likud
Joshua Matza	Likud
Dan Meridor	Likud
Roni Milo	Likud
Yitzhak Moda'i	Likud	Left party to establish the New Liberal Party
Benjamin Netanyahu	Likud
Moshe Nissim	Likud
Ehud Olmert	Likud
Gideon Patt	Likud
Yehuda Perah	Likud
Reuven Rivlin	Likud
Yehoshua Saguy	Likud
Ya'akov Shamai	Likud
Yitzhak Shamir	Likud
Avraham Sharir	Likud	Left party to establish the New Liberal Party, but later returned to Likud
Ariel Sharon	Likud
Dov Shilansky	Likud
Zalman Shoval	Likud
Dan Tichon	Likud
Ariel Weinstein	Likud
Nava Arad	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Haim Bar-Lev	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Michael Bar-Zohar	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Uzi Baram	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Yossi Beilin	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Eli Ben-Menachem	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Avraham Burg	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Ra'anan Cohen	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Eli Dayan	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Rafael Edri	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Aryeh Eliav	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Gedalia Gal	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Micha Goldman	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Efraim Gur	Alignment	Left party to establish the Unity for Peace and Immigration, which merged into Likud
Mordechai Gur	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Michael Harish	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Shlomo Hillel	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Avraham Katz-Oz	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Israel Kessar	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
David Libai	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Nawaf Massalha	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Hagai Meirom	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Ora Namir	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Yitzhak Navon	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Shimon Peres	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Amir Peretz	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Yitzhak Rabin	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Haim Ramon	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Moshe Shahal	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Shimon Shetreet	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Avraham Shochat	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Edna Solodar	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Ya'akov Tzur	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Shevah Weiss	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Ezer Weizman	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Gad Yaacobi	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Emanuel Zisman	Alignment	Faction dissolved and renamed Labor Party
Yosef Azran	Shas
Shlomo Dayan	Shas
Aryeh Gamliel	Shas
Yair Levy	Shas
Yitzhak Peretz	Shas	Left party to establish Moria
Rafael Pinhasi	Shas
Moshe Ze'ev Feldman	Agudat Yisrael
Shmuel Halpert	Agudat Yisrael
Eliezer Mizrahi	Agudat Yisrael	Left party to establish Geulat Yisrael
Menachem Porush	Agudat Yisrael
Avraham Verdiger	Agudat Yisrael
Shulamit Aloni	Ratz	Party merged into Meretz
Ran Cohen	Ratz	Party merged into Meretz
Yossi Sarid	Ratz	Party merged into Meretz
Mordechai Virshubski	Ratz	Party merged into Meretz
David Zucker	Ratz	Party merged into Meretz
Yigal Bibi	National Religious Party
Zevulun Hammer	National Religious Party
Yitzhak Levy	National Religious Party
Hanan Porat	National Religious Party
Avner Shaki	National Religious Party
Charlie Biton	Hadash	Left party to sit as an independent, before establishing the Black Panthers
Tawfik Toubi	Hadash
Meir Vilner	Hadash
Tawfiq Ziad	Hadash
Geula Cohen	Tehiya
Yuval Ne'eman	Tehiya
Eliezer Waldman	Tehiya
Hussein Faris	Mapam	Party merged into Meretz
Haim Oron	Mapam	Party merged into Meretz
Yair Tzaban	Mapam	Party merged into Meretz
Rafael Eitan	Tzomet
Yoash Tzidon	Tzomet
Yair Sprinzak	Moledet
Rehavam Ze'evi	Moledet
Avraham Poraz	Shinui	Party merged into Meretz
Amnon Rubinstein	Shinui	Party merged into Meretz
Moshe Gafni	Degel HaTorah
Avraham Ravitz	Degel HaTorah
Mohammed Miari	Progressive List for Peace
Abdulwahab Darawshe	Arab Democratic Party

Replacements

MK	Replaced	Date	Party	Notes
Michael Kleiner	Yigal Cohen	6 December 1988	Likud
Hashem Mahameed	Meir Vilner	10 January 1990	Hadash
Gershon Shafat	Yuval Ne'eman	30 January 1990	Tehiya
Elyakim Haetzni	Eliezer Waldman	31 January 1990	Tehiya
Mohamed Nafa	Tawfiq Ziad	14 February 1990	Hadash
Tamar Gozansky	Tawfik Toubi	4 July 1990	Hadash
Haim Kaufman	Zalman Shoval	8 October 1990	Likud
Salah Tarif	Ezer Weizman	3 February 1992	Labor Party
Limor Livnat	Haim Corfu	14 April 1992	Likud

External links

• Members of the Twelfth Knesset Knesset website