History of the Knesset

History

Introduction to the History of the Knesset

	First Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections (For the Constituent Assembly): 25.1.1949 First Sitting: 14.2.1949 (Tu Bishvat) Number of Elected Lists: 12 (By the end of the Knesset, there were 12 parliamentary groups and 2 non-affiliated MKs.) Duration: 2 years, 6 months

	Second Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 30.7.1951 First Sitting: 20.8.1951 Number of Elected Lists: 15 (Before dissolution, there were 13 Parliamentary Groups.) Duration: 4 years

	Third Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 26.7.1955 First Sitting: 15.8.1955 Number of Elected Lists: 12 (Before dissolution, there were 12 Parliamentary Groups.) Duration: 4 years and 4 months

	Fourth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 3.11.1959 First Sitting: 30.11.1959 Number of Elected Lists: 12 (Before dissolution, there were 12 Parliamentary Groups.) Duration: One year and 9 months

	Fifth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 15.8.1961 First Sitting: 4.9.1961 Number of Elected Lists: 11 (Before dissolution, there were 12 Parliamentary Groups.) Duration: 4 years and two months

	Sixth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 2.11.1965 First Sitting: 22.11.1965 Number of Elected Lists: 13 (Before dissolution, there were 15 Parliamentary Groups.) Duration: 4 years

	Seventh Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 28.10.1969 First Sitting: 17.11.1969 Number of Elected Lists: 12 (Before dissolution, there were 12 parliamentary groups and 2 non-affiliated MKs.) Duration: 4 years and 2 months

	Eighth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 31.12.1973 First Sitting: 21.1.1974 Number of Elected Lists: 9 (Before dissolution, there were 10 parliamentary groups and 1 non-affiliated MK.) Duration: 3 years and 5 months

	Ninth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 17.5.1977 First Sitting: 13.6.1977 Number of Elected Lists 13 (Before dissolution, there were 20 parliamentary groups and 4 non-affiliated MKs.) Duration: 4 years and 1 month

	Tenth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 30.6.1981 First Sitting: 20.7.1981 Number of Elected Lists: 10 (Before dissolution, there were 12 parliamentary groups.) Duration: 3 years and one month

	Eleventh Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 23.7.1984 First Sitting: 13.8.1984 Number of Elected Lists: 15 (Before dissolution, there were 15 parliamentary groups and 1 non-affiliated MK.) Duration: 4 years and 3 months

	Twelfth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 1.11.1988 First Sitting: 21.11.88 Number of Elected Lists: 15 (Before dissolution, there were 17 parliamentary groups.) Duration: 3 years and 8 months

	Thirteenth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 23.6.1992 First Sitting: 13.7.1992 Number of Elected Lists: 10 (Before dissolution, there were 16 parliamentary groups and 4 non-affiliated MKs.) Duration: 3 years and 11 months

	Fourteenth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 29.5.1996 First Sitting: 17.6.1996 Number of Elected Lists: 11 (Before dissolution, there were 21 parliamentary groups and 2 non-affiliated MKs.) Duration: 3 years

	Fifteenth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 17.5.1999 First Sitting: 7.6.1999 Number of Elected Lists: 15 (Before dissolution, there were 20 parliamentary groups.) Duration: 3 years and 8 months

	Sixteenth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 28.1.2003 First Sitting: 17.2.2003 Number of Elected Lists: 13 (Before dissolution, there were 19 parliamentary groups.) Duration: 3 years and 2 months

	Seventeenth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 28.3.2006 First Sitting: 17.4.2006 Number of Elected Lists: 12 (Before dissolution, there were 17 parliamentary groups.) Duration: 2 years and 11 months

	Eighteenth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 10.2.2009 First Sitting: 24.2.2009 Number of Elected Lists: 12 (Before dissolution, there were 17 parliamentary groups.) Duration: 3 years and 11 months

	Nineteenth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 22.1.2013 First Sitting: 5.2.2013 Number of Elected Lists: 12 (Before dissolution, there were 14 parliamentary groups.) Duration: 2 years and 1 month

	Twentieth Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 17.3.2015 First Sitting: 31.3.2015 Number of Elected Lists: 10 (Before dissolution, there were 14 parliamentary groups.) Duration: 4 years and 1 month

	Twenty-First Knesset: Main Events and Issues Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 09.04.2019 First Sitting: 30.04.2019 Number of Elected Lists: 11 (Before dissolution, there were 14 parliamentary groups.) Duration: About 5 months

	Twenty-Second Knesset: Factional and Government Makeup Knesset Members		Elections: 17.09.2019 First Sitting: 03.10.2019 Number of Elected Lists: 9