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Breakdown of the 17th Knesset

By Ezra HaLevi

The following is a breakdown of the 120 tentative members of the 17th Knesset and the parties they belong to. Party names are hyperlinked to their English web sites, where available.

_Kadima_ (http://www.kadimasharon.co.il/11-en/index.aspx) ? 28 seats: Chairman Ehud Olmert, Shimon Peres, Tzipi Livni, Meir Sheetrit, Avi Dichter, Marina Solodkin, Haim Ramon, Shaul Mofaz, Tzahi Hanegbi, Avraham Hirschson, Uriel Reichman, Gideon Ezra, Roni Bar-On, Dalia Itzik, Ze?ev Boim, Ya?akov Edri, Ze ?ev Elkin, Majallie Whbee, Ruhama Avraham, Michael Ben-Sasson, Shlomo Brazanich, Eli Aflalo, David Tal, Avigdor Yitzhaki, Ronit Tirosh, Michael Nudelman, Otniel Shneller, Amira Dotan

_Shas_ (http://www.shasnet.org.il/Front/Pages/pages.asp) ? 13: Chairman Eli Yishai,Yitzhak Cohen, Amnon Cohen, Meshulam Nahari, Ariel Atiyas, Shlomo Benizri, David Azoulay,Yitzhak Vaknin, Nissim Ze?ev, Ya?akov Margi, Chaim Amsalam, Avraham Michaeli, Mazor Beyana (first Ethiopian Jew to be elected to the Knesset. Is a rabbi from Be’er Sheva)

_Likud _ (http://www.likud.org.il/anglos.asp) ? 11: Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu, Silvan Shalom, Moshe Kahlon, Gilad Erdan, Gideon Sa?ar, Michael Eitan, Reuven Rivlin, Dan Naveh, Yuval Steinitz, Limor Livnat, Natan Sharansky

_Pensioners _ (http://www.gil.org.il/) ? 7: Chairman Rafi Eitan, Ya?akov Ben-Izri, Moshe Sharoni, Yitzhak Ziv, Yitzhak Galanti, Elhanan Glazer, Sarah Marom

_Meretz_ (http://www.meretz.org.il/main-branch/en/) ? 4: Chairman Yossi Beilin, Haim Oron, Ran Cohen, Zehava Gal-On

_Labor/Meimad_ (http://www.avoda2006.org.il/PageL.asp?cc=0124) ? 20: Chairman Amir Peretz, Isaac Herzog, Ophir Paz-Pines, Avishai Braverman, Yuli Tamir, Ami Ayalon, Eitan Cabel, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Shelly Yacimovich, Michael Melchior, Matan Vilnai, Collette Avital, Efraim Sneh, Danny Yatom, Nadia Hilu, Shalom Simhon, Orit Noked, Yoram Marciano, Ghaleb Majadle, Shakeef Shanan

_Yisrael Beitenu_ (http://www.beytenu.org.il/page.php?page=258) ? 12: Chairman Avigdor Lieberman, Yuri Shtern, Yisrael Hason, Yosef Hagall, Estherina Tartman, Stas Miseznicoff, Sofa Landver, Yitzhak Ahronovich, Robert Iltev, Alex Miller, Leah Shemtov, David Rotem

_National Union/NRP_ (http://www.moledet.org.il/english/moledet.html) ? 9: Chairman Benny Elon, Zevulun Orlev, Zvi Hendel, Effi Eitam, Nissan Slomiansky, Yitzhak Levy, Eli Gabai, Arye Eldad, Uri Ariel

_United Torah Judaism _ (http://www.gimel2006.com/) ? 6: Chairman Ya?acov Litzman, Avraham Ravitz, Meir Porush, Moshe Gafni, Shmuel Halpert, Yisrael Eichler

United Arab List ? 4: Chairman Ibrahim Sarsour, Ahmed Tibi, Taleb a-Sanaa, Mohammed Kanaan

Balad ? 3: Chairman Azmi Bishara, G?emal Zehalkah, Wasal Taha

Hadash ? 3: Chairman Muhammad Barakeh, Hanna Sweid, Dov Hanin

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