List of members of the eighth Knesset

The 120 members of the eighth Knesset were elected on 31 December 1973. The breakdown by party was as follows:

The eighth Knesset was sworn in on 21 January 1974.

Member	Party	Notes
Yigal Allon	Alignment
Yosef Almogi	Alignment
Adiel Amorai	Alignment
Ari Ankorion	Alignment
Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino	Alignment
Moshe Baram	Alignment
Yitzhak Ben-Aharon	Alignment
Mordechai Ben-Porat	Alignment	Left party to sit as an independent
Moshe Carmel	Alignment
David Coren	Alignment
Moshe Dayan	Alignment
Yehuda Dranitzki	Alignment	Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment
Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi	Alignment
Abba Eban	Alignment
Aharon Efrat	Alignment	Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment
Aryeh Eliav	Alignment	Left party to sit as an independent, before establishing Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement and then forming the Independent Socialist Faction
Uzi Feinerman	Alignment
Yisrael Galili	Alignment
Avraham Givelber	Alignment
Haika Grossman	Alignment	Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment
Zvi Guershoni	Alignment
Mathilda Guez	Alignment
Menachem Hacohen	Alignment
Ben-Zion Halfon	Alignment
Michael Harish	Alignment
Esther Herlitz	Alignment
Shlomo Hillel	Alignment
Yisrael Kargman	Alignment
Nuzhat Katzav	Alignment
Shalom Levin	Alignment
Golda Meir	Alignment
Eliyahu Moyal	Alignment
Ora Namir	Alignment
Yitzhak Navon	Alignment
Avraham Ofer	Alignment
Shimon Peres	Alignment
Yitzhak Rabin	Alignment
Eliezer Ronen	Alignment	Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment
Pinchas Sapir	Alignment
Yossi Sarid	Alignment
Moshe Shahal	Alignment
Meir Talmi	Alignment	Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment
Moshe Wertman	Alignment
Gad Yaacobi	Alignment
Aharon Yadlin	Alignment
Aviad Yafeh	Alignment
Aharon Yariv	Alignment
Yisrael Yeshayahu	Alignment
Haim Yosef Zadok	Alignment
Dov Zakin	Alignment	Briefly broke away with Mapam, but later returned to the Alignment
Avraham Zilberberg	Alignment
Zalman Abramov	Likud
Moshe Arens	Likud
Yoram Aridor	Likud
Yohanan Bader	Likud
Yedidia Be'eri	Likud
Menachem Begin	Likud
Meir Cohen-Avidov	Likud
Geula Cohen	Likud
Haim Corfu	Likud
Matityahu Drobles	Likud
Leon Dycian	Likud
Simha Erlich	Likud
Yehezkel Flomin	Likud
Pesah Grupper	Likud
Binyamin Halevi	Likud	Left party to sit as an independent
Yigal Hurvitz	Likud
Avraham Katz	Likud
Ben-Zion Keshet	Likud
Yosef Kremerman	Likud
Haim Landau	Likud
David Levy	Likud
Amnon Linn	Likud
Eitan Livni	Likud
Yitzhak Moda'i	Likud
Moshe Nissim	Likud
Akiva Nof	Likud	Left party to establish the Free Centre
Ehud Olmert	Likud
Gideon Patt	Likud
Yitzhak Peretz	Likud
Elimelekh Rimalt	Likud
Yitzhak Shamir	Likud
Ariel Sharon	Likud
Avraham Shekhterman	Likud
Eliezer Shostak	Likud
Zalman Shoval	Likud
Shmuel Tamir	Likud	Left party to establish the Free Centre
Yosef Tamir	Likud
Menachem Yedid	Likud
Avraham Yoffe	Likud
Aharon Abuhatzira	National Religious Party
Eliezer Avtabi	National Religious Party
Yehuda Ben-Meir	National Religious Party
Yosef Burg	National Religious Party
Michael Hasani	National Religious Party
Zevulun Hammer	National Religious Party
Avraham Melamed	National Religious Party
Yitzhak Rafael	National Religious Party
Pinhas Scheinman	National Religious Party
Zerach Warhaftig	National Religious Party
Yehuda Meir Abramowicz	Religious Torah Front	When party split, represented Agudat Yisrael
Kalman Kahana	Religious Torah Front	When party split, represented Poalei Agudat Yisrael
Shlomo Lorincz	Religious Torah Front	When party split, represented Agudat Yisrael
Menachem Porush	Religious Torah Front
Avraham Verdiger	Religious Torah Front	When party split, represented Poalei Agudat Yisrael
Gideon Hausner	Independent Liberals
Moshe Kol	Independent Liberals
Hillel Seidel	Independent Liberals	Left party and joined Likud
Yehuda Sha'ari	Independent Liberals
Avraham Levenbraun	Rakah	Party merged into Hadash
Tawfik Toubi	Rakah	Party merged into Hadash
Meir Vilner	Rakah	Party merged into Hadash
Tawfiq Ziad	Rakah	Party merged into Hadash
Shulamit Aloni	Ratz	Party briefly merged into Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement before becoming independent again
Marcia Freedman	Ratz	Party merged into Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement. When it split, Freedman joined the Independent Socialist Faction.
Boaz Moav	Ratz	Party briefly merged into Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement before becoming independent again
Seif el-Din el-Zoubi	Progress and Development	Party merged into the Alignment, before leaving and later establishing the United Arab List
Jabr Muadi	Progress and Development	Party merged into the Alignment, before leaving and later establishing the United Arab List
Meir Pa'il	Moked
Hamad Abu Rabia	Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers	Party merged into the Alignment, before leaving and later merging into the United Arab List

MK	Replaced	Date	Party	Notes
Haviv Shimoni	Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi	14 February 1974	Alignment
Nissim Eliad	Moshe Kol	10 March 1974	Independent Liberals
Yitzhak Golan	Gideon Hausner	10 March 1974	Independent Liberals
Amos Hadar	Uzi Feinerman	8 April 1974	Alignment
Jacques Amir	Golda Meir	10 June 1974	Alignment
Yigal Cohen	Ariel Sharon	23 December 1974	Likud
Simcha Friedman	Michael Hasani	2 July 1975	National Religious Party
Ya'akov Frank	Pinchas Sapir	12 August 1975	Alignment
Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross	Menachem Porush	23 November 1975	Religious Torah Front	When party split, represented Agudat Yisrael
Senetta Yoseftal	Zvi Guershoni	1 September 1976	Alignment
Yehiel Leket	Avraham Ofer	3 January 1977	Alignment
Haim Kaufman	Binyamin Halevi	19 January 1977	Likud
Zita Linker	Shmuel Tamir	21 January 1977	Likud
Amal Nasser el-Din	Akiva Nof	22 January 1977	Likud
Zvi Alderoti	Aharon Yariv	16 May 1977	Alignment

List of members of the eighth Knesset

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