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Knesset 1
1949-02-14 – 1951-08-20
Party Groupings
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
46 seats
United Workers` Party
20 seats
United Religious Front
16 seats
Herut Movement
12 seats
General Zionists
7 seats
Progressive Party
5 seats
Sephardim and Oriental Communities
4 seats
Israel Communist Party
3 seats
Nazareth Democratic Party
2 seats
Fighters List
1 seat
Single MK - Ari Jabotinsky
1 seat
Single MK - Hillel Kook
1 seat
WIZO
1 seat
Yemenite Association of Israel
1 seat
What’s in this dataset?
As much as we know. Here’s a taste of the information we have so far.
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Amin-Salim Jarjora
Nazareth Democratic Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1886-10-12 |
| Died | 1975-08-20 |
| wikidata | Q2905903 |
|---|
Aryeh Bahir
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1906-05-01 |
| Died | 1970-09-13 |
| wikidata | Q718000 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/063ymnw |
Aryeh Sheftel
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael (until 1951-02-12)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1905 |
| Died | 1980-09-28 |
| wikidata | Q2687114 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06zqd9b |
Avraham Elmalich
Sephardim and Oriental Communities
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1885 |
| Died | 1967-04-02 |
| wikidata | Q2901473 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/064mcsc |
| isni | 0000 0000 8387 5507 |
Avraham Herzfeld
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1891-06-05 |
| Died | 1973-08-30 |
| wikidata | Q2910619 |
|---|
Avraham Rakanti
Herut Movement
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1888 |
| Died | 1980-03-03 |
| wikidata | Q2920530 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/0640x0f |
Avraham-Haim Shag
United Religious Front
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1887 |
| Died | 1958-12-06 |
| wikidata | Q2901431 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/064qv7j |
David Bar-Rav-Hai
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1894-07-11 |
| Died | 1977-07-15 |
| wikidata | Q2902983 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/063yhlh |
David Livschitz
United Workers` Party (from 1951-04-12)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1897-05-12 |
| Died | 1973-10-30 |
| wikidata | Q2901637 |
|---|
Devorah Netzer
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1897-05-01 |
| Died | 1989-01-04 |
| wikidata | Q2776248 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06w8yxp |
| viaf | 6262154076043111860007 |
| lcauth | no2018144967 |
Eliezer Preminger
United Workers` Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1920-04-13 |
| Died | 2001-09-15 |
| wikidata | Q2365732 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/063_5x3 |
Eliyahu Mazur
United Religious Front (from 1949-03-11)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1889 |
| Died | 1973-09-24 |
| wikidata | Q2900358 |
|---|
Esther Raziel-Naor
Herut Movement
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1911-11-29 |
| Died | 2002-11-11 |
| wikidata | Q2902297 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/03h2vr4 |
Fayge Ilanit
United Workers` Party
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1909-02-07 |
| Died | 2002-07-14 |
| wikidata | Q2906119 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/03qczzs |
Haim Cohen-Meguri
Herut Movement
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1913-04-01 |
| Died | 2000-06-10 |
| wikidata | Q2335185 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/064lmvg |
Hanan Rubin
United Workers` Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1908-08-10 |
| Died | 1962-10-24 |
| wikidata | Q2901411 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06wbp8b |
Hannah Lamdan
United Workers` Party
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1905-01-05 |
| Died | 1995-04-10 |
| wikidata | Q2905464 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06w4rt7 |
Hasya Drori
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1899 |
| Died | 1976-06-03 |
| wikidata | Q2901683 |
|---|
Israel Guri
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1893-10-15 |
| Died | 1965-09-17 |
| wikidata | Q2072615 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06zld0c |
Jenia Tversky
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael (from 1951-02-05)
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1904-08-16 |
| Died | 1964-04-09 |
| wikidata | Q1530257 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06zp5tv |
Meir-David Levenstein
United Religious Front
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1904 |
| Died | 1995-08-15 |
| wikidata | Q2908216 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/03cr267 |
Menachem Ratzon
United Workers` Party (from 1951-04-10)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1919-08-05 |
| Died | 1987-11-12 |
| wikidata | Q2900967 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06w6f8_ |
Menahem Cohen
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael (from 1951-05-19)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1922-07-05 |
| Died | 1975-03-11 |
| wikidata | Q2902115 |
|---|
Moshe Ben-Ami
Sephardim and Oriental Communities
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1898 |
| Died | 1960-02-18 |
| wikidata | Q2901227 |
|---|
Moshe Kelmer
United Religious Front (until 1949-03-11)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1901-11-01 |
| Died | 1970-09-11 |
| wikidata | Q2900595 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06wbhcc |
Refael Bash
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael (from 1951-05-21)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1913-01-08 |
| Died | 2000-03-10 |
| wikidata | Q2902429 |
|---|
Reuven Sheri
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1903-04-07 |
| Died | 1989-07-06 |
| wikidata | Q2687111 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06zp2k5 |
Shmuel Merlin
Herut Movement
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1910-01-04 |
| Died | 1994-10-04 |
| wikidata | Q2011749 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/03qfr_n |
Shraga Goren
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1898 |
| Died | 1972-06-12 |
| wikidata | Q2753565 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06zqp2s |
Yaakov Klivnov
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1887-12-20 |
| Died | 1966-11-04 |
| wikidata | Q2267536 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/064p45l |
Yechiel Duvdevani
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1896 |
| Died | 1988-04-30 |
| wikidata | Q2902404 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06zkkt7 |
Yizhar Harari
Progressive Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1908-07-16 |
| Died | 1978-02-01 |
| wikidata | Q2906342 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/03ntdpf |
Yona Kesse
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1907 |
| Died | 1985-06-27 |
| wikidata | Q2901728 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06_wgl3 |
Yosef Serlin
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1906-02-24 |
| Died | 1974-01-15 |
| wikidata | Q2613074 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/03nsy3v |
Zvi Yehuda
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1887-08-15 |
| Died | 1965-10-03 |
| wikidata | Q2901704 |
|---|---|
| viaf | 3296148876453949740003 |
| gnd | 1132344905 |
Ruby programmer? It’s easy to use this data in your own app! Use the gem like this:
require 'everypolitician'
country = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('Israel')
house = country.legislature('Knesset')
house.popolo.terms.find_by(id: 'term/1').memberships.each do |membership|
puts "#{membership.person.name} (#{membership.party.name}): #{membership.person.gender}"
end
Main Sources: http://www.knesset.gov.il, http://wikidata.org/, https://twitter.com/PolitwoopsIL/lists/mp, http://gender-balance.org/
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