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Knesset 2
1951-08-20 – 1955-08-15
Party Groupings
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
47 seats
General Zionists
22 seats
Herut Movement
8 seats
Po-el Mizrahi
8 seats
Israel Communist Party
7 seats
United Workers` Party
7 seats
Ahdut Ha`avoda - Poalei Zion
4 seats
Progressive Party
4 seats
Agudat Yisrael
3 seats
Democratic List for Israeli Arabs
3 seats
Mizrahi
2 seats
Poalei Agudat Yisrael
2 seats
Agriculture and Development
1 seat
Kidma Ve-avoda
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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Avraham Deutsch
Agudat Yisrael (until 1953-06-24)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1889 |
| Died | 1953-05-25 |
| wikidata | Q2904066 |
|---|
Avraham Herzfeld
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1891-06-05 |
| Died | 1973-08-30 |
| wikidata | Q2910619 |
|---|
Avraham Kalfon
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael (from 1952-07-13)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1900-12-16 |
| Died | 1983-07-04 |
| wikidata | Q2901693 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076v_kc |
Baruch Kamin
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael (from 1953-12-01)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1914-04-15 |
| Died | 1988-07-10 |
| wikidata | Q2456086 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/07k6kqy |
Batsheva Katznelson
General Zionists
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1897 |
| Died | 1988-08-30 |
| wikidata | Q2907965 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076ts3v |
Binyamin Sasson
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1903 |
| Died | 1989-05-01 |
| wikidata | Q2900270 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06_wq5d |
Chaim Ariav
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1895 |
| Died | 1957-06-16 |
| wikidata | Q2902082 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076w0pm |
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
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| 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 |
Esther Raziel-Naor
Herut Movement
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1911-11-29 |
| Died | 2002-11-11 |
| wikidata | Q2902297 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/03h2vr4 |
Ezra Ichilov
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1907-06-10 |
| Died | 1961-06-25 |
| wikidata | Q2359776 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076w50m |
George Flash
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1909 |
| Died | 1990-11-22 |
| wikidata | Q2901508 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076zkk6 |
Haim Cohen-Meguri
Herut Movement (from 1953-07-06)
| 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
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1905-01-05 |
| Died | 1995-04-10 |
| wikidata | Q2905464 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06w4rt7 |
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
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1904-08-16 |
| Died | 1964-04-09 |
| wikidata | Q1530257 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06zp5tv |
Masaad Kassis
Democratic List for Israeli Arabs
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1918-11-01 |
| Died | 1989-12-25 |
| wikidata | Q2900669 |
|---|
Michael Chasani
Po-el Mizrahi
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1913-06-27 |
| Died | 1975-07-02 |
| wikidata | Q2046022 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/04lg7b0 |
| isni | 0000 0000 7096 3532 |
Moshe Kelmer
Po-el Mizrahi
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1901-11-01 |
| Died | 1970-09-11 |
| wikidata | Q2900595 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06wbhcc |
Nahum Het
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1896 |
| Died | 1990-01-15 |
| wikidata | Q2501583 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076xqmr |
Rachel Tsabari
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael (from 1952-04-04)
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Born | 1909-07-27 |
| Died | 1995-02-16 |
| wikidata | Q2902381 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076zn7x |
Reuven Feldman
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1899-12-29 |
| Died | 1990-04-07 |
| wikidata | Q2901619 |
|---|
Reuven Sheri
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1903-04-07 |
| Died | 1989-07-06 |
| wikidata | Q2687111 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06zp2k5 |
Rostam Bastuni
United Workers` Party
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1923-03-15 |
| Died | 1994-04-26 |
| wikidata | Q2900939 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/02pj89c |
Salah-Hassan Hanifes
Kidma Ve-avoda
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1913-03-01 |
| Died | 2002-03-16 |
| wikidata | Q2909713 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/06_vk4_ |
Shimon Bejarno
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1910-09-28 |
| Died | 1971-10-17 |
| wikidata | Q2901671 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076wh9r |
Shlomo Perlstein
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1902-09-02 |
| Died | 1979-04-19 |
| wikidata | Q2334801 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076wt91 |
Shlomo-Israel Ben-Meir
Mizrahi (from 1952-08-14)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1910-08-13 |
| Died | 1971-04-04 |
| wikidata | Q2906644 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076tc0w |
Yaakov Klivnov
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1887-12-20 |
| Died | 1966-11-04 |
| wikidata | Q2267536 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/064p45l |
Yaakov Nitzani
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael (from 1952-12-08)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1900-12-06 |
| Died | 1962-09-15 |
| wikidata | Q2901470 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/07kcd03 |
Yaakov-Shimshon Shapira
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1902-11-04 |
| Died | 1993-11-14 |
| wikidata | Q937011 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/047px2f |
Yechezkel Hen
Worker’s Party of Eretz Yisrael (until 1952-04-04)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1882 |
| Died | 1952-04-04 |
| wikidata | Q2901498 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076ydlt |
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 |
Zalman Ben-Yaakov
Agudat Yisrael (from 1953-06-24)
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1897 |
| Died | 1959-03-02 |
| wikidata | Q2904307 |
|---|
Zalman Susayeff
General Zionists
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Born | 1911-02-14 |
| Died | 1981-02-25 |
| wikidata | Q2902132 |
|---|---|
| freebase | /m/076v5c1 |
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/2').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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