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 PartyNameMapai (42) Yosef Almogi (until 1965) Zalman Aran Meir Argov Ami Assaf David Bar-Rav-Hai Moshe Baram Aharon Becker David Ben-Gurion (until 1965) Herzl Berger Menachem Cohen Yitzhak Coren Moshe Dayan (until 1965) Amos Degani (until 1965) Abba Eban Yosef Efrati Levi Eshkol Yosef Fischer Akiva Govrin Yisrael Guri David Hacohen Asher Hassin Avraham Herzfeld Beba Idelson Yisrael Kargman Yona Kesse (until 1964) Kadish Luz Golda Meir Mordechai Namir Dvora Netzer Baruch Osnia Shimon Peres (until 1965) David Petel Pinchas Sapir Moshe Sardines Moshe Sharett Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit Shmuel Shoresh Yizhar Smilansky (until 1965) Rachel Tzabari Yisrael Yeshayahu Giora Yoseftal Haim Yosef ZadokHerut (17) Aryeh Altman Binyamin Arditi Binyamin Avniel Yohanan Bader Menachem Begin Aryeh Ben-Eliezer Haim Cohen-Meguri Avraham Drori Haim Landau Nahum Levin Eliyahu Meridor Ya'akov Meridor Esther Raziel-Naor Shabtai Shikhman Yosef Shofman Eliezer Shostak Avraham TiarLiberal Party (17) Zalman Abramov Peretz Bernstein Benno Cohen (until 1965) Idov Cohen Rachel Cohen-Kagan (until 1965) Yitzhak Golan (until 1965) Yizhar Harari (until 1965) Yitzhak Klinghoffer Moshe Kol (until 1965) Shlomo Perlstein Elimelekh Rimalt Pinchas Rosen (until 1965) Yosef Sapir Yosef Serlin Yehuda Sha'ari (until 1965) Baruch Uziel Zvi ZimmermanNational Religious Party (12) Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir Yosef Burg Michael Hasani Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg Mordechai Nurock Yitzhak Rafael Tova Sanhadray Binyamin Shahor Haim-Moshe Shapira Moshe Unna Zerach Warhaftig Frija ZoaretzMapam (9) Yisrael Barzilai Mordechai Bentov Ya'akov Hazan Yussuf Hamis Ya'akov Riftin Hanan Rubin Victor Shem-Tov Emma Talmi Meir Ya'ariAhdut HaAvoda (8) Yigal Allon Yisrael Bar-Yehuda Yitzhak Ben-Aharon Mordechai Bibi Moshe Carmel Yisrael Galili Ruth Haktin Nahum NirRafi (8) Yosef Almogi (after 1965) Gideon Ben-Yisrael David Ben-Gurion (after 1965) Moshe Dayan (after 1965) Amos Degani (after 1965) Hannah Lamdan Shimon Peres (after 1965) Yizhar Smilansky (after 1965)Independent Liberals (7) Benno Cohen (after 1965) Rachel Cohen-Kagan (after 1965) Yitzhak Golan (after 1965) Yizhar Harari (after 1965) Moshe Kol (after 1965) Pinchas Rosen (after 1965) Yehuda Sha'ari (after 1965)Maki (5) Shmuel Mikunis Moshe Sneh Esther Vilenska Meir Vilner (until 1965) Tawfik Toubi (until 1965)Agudat Yisrael (4) Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross Yitzhak-Meir Levin Shlomo Lorincz Menachem PorushPoalei Agudat Yisrael (2) Kalman Kahana Ya'akov KatzRakah (2) Meir Vilner (after 1965) Tawfik Toubi (after 1965)Cooperation and Brotherhood (2) Jabr Muadi Diyab ObeidProgress and Development (2) Ahmed A-Dahar Elias Nakhleh
Replacements MKReplacedPartyDateNotesEmile HabibiMeir VilnerMaki9 October 1961Left party to form RakahHannah LamdanGiora YoseftalMapai23 August 1962Left party to form RafiGideon Ben-YisraelHerzl BergerMapai24 October 1962Left party to form RafiYosef KushnirHanan RubinMapam24 October 1962Shalom-Avraham ShakiMordechai NurockNational Religious Party8 November 1962Moshe KelmerAharon-Ya'akov GreenbergNational Religious Party2 April 1963Mordechai ZarAmi AssafMapai17 May 1963Aharon GoldsteinIdov CohenLiberal Party11 November 1963Party merged with Herut to form GahalJenia TverskyMeir ArgovMapai24 November 1963Aharon YadlinJenia TverskyMapai4 May 1964Halil-Salim JabaraYitzhak Ben-AharonAhdut HaAvoda11 May 1964Yosef KremermanAvraham DroriHerut20 August 1964Party merged with the Liberal Party to form GahalMoshe AramYisrael Bar-YehudaAhdut HaAvoda4 May 1865Ari AnkorionMoshe SharettMapai7 July 1965
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