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A Sephardic-Haredi party, whose original name was "Sephardi Keepers of the Torah", that was established toward the elections for the Eleventh Knesset in 1984, as a protest against the peripheral representation of Sephardim within the Agudat Yisrael list. The stated purpose of the party, whose spiritual leader is Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and whose political leader until the Fourteenth Knesset was Arie Der'I, is to "return the crown to the former glory", and to repair the alleged continued economic and social discrimination against the Sephardic population of Israel. Despite its Rightist political position, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef declared that human life is more important than territories. Shas has been represented in the Knesset by that name from the Eleventh Knesset through the Sixteenth Knessets.

The Knessets in Which it Served:

	11 13/08/1984 21/11/1988	Knesset Members: Shimon Ben-Shlomo Yitzhak Haim Peretz Raphael Pinchasi Yaakov Yosef



	12 21/11/1988 13/07/1992	Knesset Members: Joseph Azran Shlomo Dayan Arieh Gamliel Yair Levy Yitzhak Haim Peretz Raphael Pinchasi



	13 13/07/1992 17/06/1996	Knesset Members: Joseph Azran Shlomo Benizri Aryeh Deri Arieh Gamliel Moshe Maya Raphael Pinchasi



	14 17/06/1996 07/06/1999	Knesset Members: David Azoulay Shlomo Benizri Yitzhak Cohen Nissim Dahan Aryeh Deri Arieh Gamliel Raphael Pinchasi David Tal Yitzhak Vaknin Eliyahu Yishai



	15 07/06/1999 17/02/2003	Knesset Members: David Azoulay Shlomo Benizri Amnon Cohen Yitzhak Cohen Nissim Dahan Itzhak Gagula Arieh Gamliel Ofer Hugi Rahamim Melloul Meshulam Nahari Yair Peretz Yitzhak Shaban Eliyahu Suissa David Tal Yitzhak Vaknin Eliyahu Yishai Pinhas Zabre Nissim Zeev



	16 17/02/2003 17/04/2006	Knesset Members: David Azoulay Shlomo Benizri Amnon Cohen Yitzhak Cohen Nissim Dahan Ofer Hugi Yakov Margi Meshulam Nahari Yair Peretz Yitzhak Vaknin Eliyahu Yishai Nissim Zeev



	17 17/04/2006 24/02/2009	Knesset Members: Chaim Amsellem Ariel Atias David Azoulay Mazor Bahyna Shlomo Benizri Amnon Cohen Yitzhak Cohen Yakov Margi Avraham Michaeli Meshulam Nahari Yitzhak Vaknin Eliyahu Yishai Nissim Zeev



	18 24/02/2009 05/02/2013	Knesset Members: Chaim Amsellem Ariel Atias David Azoulay Amnon Cohen Yitzhak Cohen Yakov Margi Avraham Michaeli Meshulam Nahari Yitzhak Vaknin Eliyahu Yishai Nissim Zeev



	19 05/02/2013	Knesset Members: Ariel Atias David Azoulay Amnon Cohen Yitzhak Cohen Aryeh Deri Yakov Margi Avraham Michaeli Meshulam Nahari Yitzhak Vaknin Eliyahu Yishai Nissim Zeev



Color Key: Black: A Member of the Knesset who was a member of the parliamentary group throughout the group’s existence in that Knesset Blue: A Member of the Knesset who left the parliamentary group, resigned from the Knesset or passed away Green: A Member of the Knesset who joined a parliamentary group and remained in it until the end of the group’s existence in that Knesset Orange: A Member of the Knesset who joined a parliamentary group and then left it in the course of the Knesset’s term Purple: A Member of the Knesset who left a parliamentary group, and returned to it in the course of the Knesset’s term

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