# List of members of the seventeenth Knesset

The following is a list of the members of the seventeenth Knesset, elected on 28 March 2006 and inaugurated 4 May 2006, and their replacements.

## Knesset members

| Name | Party | Position |
| Ehud Olmert | Kadima | Prime Minister |
| Tzipi Livni | Kadima | Acting Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Meir Sheetrit | Kadima | Minister of the Interior |
| Avi Dichter | Kadima | Minister of Internal Security |
| Marina Solodkin | Kadima |
| Haim Ramon | Kadima | Vice Prime Minister, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office |
| Shaul Mofaz | Kadima | Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Transportation |
| Tzachi Hanegbi | Kadima | Chairman, Security and Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Avraham Hirschson | Kadima | |
| Gideon Ezra | Kadima | Minister of Environmental Affairs |
| Roni Bar-On | Kadima | Minister of Finance |
| Dalia Itzik | Kadima | Speaker of the Knesset |
| Ze'ev Boim | Kadima | Minister of Housing and Construction |
| Yaakov Edri | Kadima | Minister of Negev and Galilee Development |
| Ze'ev Elkin | Kadima |
| Majalli Wahabi | Kadima | Deputy Speaker of the Kenesset |
| Ruhama Avraham | Kadima | Minister without Portfolio responsible for Knesset liaison, Minister of Tourism |
| Menachem Ben-Sasson | Kadima | Chairman, Committee on Law and Constitution |
| Eli Aflalo | Kadima | Minister of Immigrant Absorption |
| David Tal | Kadima | Chairman, House Committee |
| Ronit Tirosh | Kadima |
| Otniel Schneller | Kadima | Deputy Speaker of Knesset |
| Michael Nudelman | Kadima | Chairman, Committee on Immigration, Absorption and the Diaspora |
| Amira Dotan | Kadima |
| Yoel Hasson | Kadima |
| Shai Hermesh | Kadima |
| Isaac Ben-Israel | Kadima |
| Yohanan Plesner | Kadima |
| Shlomo Molla | Kadima |
| Amir Peretz | Labor-Meimad |
| Isaac Herzog | Labor-Meimad | Minister of Welfare |
| Ophir Pines-Paz | Labor-Meimad | Chairman, Committee on Interior Affairs and the Environment |
| Avishay Braverman | Labor-Meimad | Chairman, Finance Committee |
| Yuli Tamir | Labor-Meimad | Minister of Education |
| Ami Ayalon | Labor-Meimad | Minister without Portfolio |
| Eitan Cabel | Labor-Meimad | |
| Binyamin Ben-Eliezer | Labor-Meimad | Minister of National Infrastructure |
| Shelly Yachimovich | Labor-Meimad |
| Michael Melchior | Labor-Meimad | Chairman, Committee on Education, Culture and Sports |
| Matan Vilnai | Labor-Meimad | Deputy Minister of Defense |
| Colette Avital | Labor-Meimad | Deputy Speaker of Knesset |
| Nadia Hilou | Labor-Meimad | Chairwoman, Committee on the Rights of the Child |
| Shalom Simhon | Labor-Meimad | Minister of Agriculture |
| Orit Noked | Labor-Meimad |
| Yoram Marciano | Labor-Meimad |
| Raleb Majadele | Labor-Meimad | Minister of Science, Culture and Sports |
| Shakhiv Shana'an | Labor-Meimad |
| Leon Litinetsky | Labor-Meimad |
| Eli Yishai | Shas | Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment |
| Yitzhak Cohen | Shas | Minister without Portfolio |
| Amnon Cohen | Shas | Deputy Speaker of Knesset |
| Meshulam Nahari | Shas | Minister without Portfolio |
| Ariel Atias | Shas | Minister of Communications |
| David Azulai | Shas |
| Yitzhak Vaknin | Shas |
| Nissim Ze'ev | Shas |
| Ya'akov Margi | Shas |
| Emil Amsalem | Shas |
| Avraham Michaeli | Shas |
| Mazor Bahaina | Shas |
| Rafi Eitan | Gil | Minister of Retiree Affairs |
| Yaakov Ben-Yezri | Gil | Minister of Health |
| Yitzhak Galanti | Gil | Chairman, Committee on Labor, Welfare and Health |
| Yitzhak Ziv | Gil | Deputy Speaker of Knesset |
| Moshe Sharoni | Gil |
| Sara Marom | Gil |
| Elhanan Glazer | Gil | Left party to establish The Right Way |
| Benjamin Netanyahu | Likud | Chairman of the Opposition |
| Silvan Shalom | Likud |
| Moshe Kahlon | Likud |
| Gilad Erdan | Likud |
| Gideon Sa'ar | Likud |
| Michael Eitan | Likud | Chairman, State Control Committee |
| Reuven Rivlin | Likud |
| Yuval Steinitz | Likud |
| Limor Livnat | Likud |
| Yisrael Katz | Likud |
| Haim Katz | Likud |
| Yuli-Yoel Edelstein | Likud | Deputy Speaker of Knesset |
| Avigdor Liberman | Yisrael Beiteinu |
| Israel Hasson | Yisrael Beiteinu | Chairman, Economy Committee |
| Yosef Shagal | Yisrael Beiteinu |
| Esterina Tartman | Yisrael Beiteinu |
| Stas Misezhnikov | Yisrael Beiteinu |
| Sofa Landver | Yisrael Beiteinu | Chairwoman, Public Petitions Committee |
| Yitzhak Aharonovich | Yisrael Beiteinu |
| Robert Ilatov | Yisrael Beiteinu |
| Alex Miller | Yisrael Beiteinu |
| Lia Shemtov | Yisrael Beiteinu | Chairwoman, Committee on Advancing the Status of Women |
| David Rotem | Yisrael Beiteinu | Deputy Speaker of Knesset |
| Binyamin Elon | National Union-NRP |
| Zevulun Orlev | National Union-NRP | Chairman, Committee on Science and Technology |
| Zvi Hendel | National Union-NRP |
| Effi Eitam | National Union-NRP |
| Nissan Slomiansky | National Union-NRP |
| Yitzhak Levi | National Union-NRP | Deputy Speaker of Knesset |
| Eliyahu Gabai | National Union-NRP |
| Aryeh Eldad | National Union-NRP |
| Uri Ariel | National Union-NRP |
| Yaakov Litzman | United Torah Judaism |
| Meir Porush | United Torah Judaism |
| Moshe Gafni | United Torah Judaism |
| Shmuel Halpert | United Torah Judaism |
| Uri Maklev | United Torah Judaism |
| Yehoshua Menachem Pollack | United Torah Judaism |
| Haim Oron | Meretz-Yachad | Chairman, Ethics Committee |
| Ran Cohen | Meretz-Yachad |
| Zehava Gal-On | Meretz-Yachad |
| Avshalom Vilan | Meretz-Yachad |
| Tzvia Greenfield | Meretz-Yachad |
| Ibrahim Sarsur | United Arab List |
| Ahmad Tibi | United Arab List |
| Taleb el-Sana | United Arab List |
| Abbas Zakour | United Arab List |
| Mohammad Barakeh | Hadash | Deputy Speaker of Knesset |
| Hana Sweid | Hadash |
| Dov Khenin | Hadash |
| Jamal Zahalka | Balad |
| Wasil Taha | Balad |
| Said Nafa | Balad |

### Replacements

| Name | Party | Replaced by | Remarks |
| Uriel Reichman | Kadima | Shai Hermesh | Resigned on 20 April 2006 after the role of Minister of Education, promised to him by Ariel Sharon, was given to Labor. |
| Natan Sharansky | Likud | Haim Katz | Sharansky retired from politics and left the Knesset on 20 November 2006. |
| Yuri Stern | Yisrael Beiteinu | David Rotem | Stern died of cancer on 16 January 2007. |
| Dan Naveh | Likud | Yuli-Yoel Edelstein | Naveh resigned to go into business on 27 February 2007. |
| Azmi Bishara | Balad | Said Nafa | Bishara resigned from the Knesset on 22 April 2007 due to a police investigation into his activities during the 2006 Lebanon War. |
| Shimon Peres | Kadima | Isaac Ben-Israel | Peres resigned from the Knesset following his election as president on 13 June 2007. |
| Shlomo Breznitz | Kadima | Yohanan Plesner | Breznitz retired from politics and left the Knesset on 8 October 2007. |
| Avigdor Yitzhaki | Kadima | Shlomo Molla | Yitzhaki resigned from the Knesset on 7 February 2008 due to "serious doubts over Ehud Olmert's ability to lead the government in the wake of the Winograd Report". |
| Shlomo Benizri | Shas | Mazor Bahaina | Benizri resigned from the Knesset on 27 April 2008 after being convicted of bribery. |
| Efraim Sneh | Labor | Shakhiv Shana'an | Sneh resigned from the Knesset on 28 May 2008 as he left Labor to found his own party. |
| Danny Yatom | Labor | Leon Litinetsky | Yatom resigned from the Knesset on 30 June 2008 due to a lack of confidence in the government. |
| Ya'akov Cohen | United Torah Judaism | Uri Maklev | Cohen resigned from the Knesset due to a rotation agreement. |
| Yossi Beilin | Meretz-Yachad | Tzvia Greenfield | Beilin retired from politics and left the Knesset on 4 November 2008. |
| Avraham Ravitz | United Torah Judaism | Yehoshua Menachem Pollack | Ravitz died on 26 January 2009. |