List of members of the Knesset who died in office

The following is a list of members of the Knesset who died in office.

List

Member Party Date of death Age at death (years) Cause
Avraham Taviv Mapai 20 April 1950[1] 60-61
Yehezkel Hen Mapai 4 April 1952 69-70
Eliezer Kaplan Mapai 13 July 1952 61[2]
David-Zvi Pinkas Mizrachi 14 August 1952[3] 56 Heart disease[4]
Eliyahu Hacarmeli Mapai 21 December 1952 61
Avraham Deutsch Agudat Yisrael 25 May 1953 63-64
Yitzhak Yitzhaky Mapam 21 September 1955 52
Haim Ariav General Zionists 18 June 1957 62[5]
Avraham Abaas Ahdut HaAvoda 17 September 1958 45-46
Yosef Sprinzak[6] Mapai 28 January 1959 73
Zalman Ben-Ya'akov Religious Torah Front 2 March 1959 61-62
Shimshon Unichman Herut 21 March 1961 54
Binyamin Mintz PAI 30 May 1961 58
Giora Yoseftal Mapai 23 August 1962 50[7]
Herzl Berger Mapai 29 August 1962 58[8]
Hanan Rubin Mapam 24 October 1962 54[9]
Mordechai Nurock Mafdal 9 November 1962 74 Heart disease[10]
Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg Mafdal 2 April 1963 63
Ami Assaf Mapai 17 May 1963[11] 61 Heart attack[12]
Meir Argov Mapai 24 November 1963 57 Heart attack[13]
Jenia Tversky Mapai 9 April 1964 59
Avraham Drori Herut 20 August 1964 45[14]
Yisrael Bar-Yehuda Ahdut HaAvoda 4 May 1965 69
Moshe Sharett Mapai 7 July 1965 70 Lung cancer[15]
Eliyahu Meridor Gahal 16 October 1966[16] 52
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit Alignment 28 January 1967[17] 71-72
Ya'akov Katz PAI 21 December 1967 60
Levi Eshkol Labor 26 February 1969 73 Heart attack[18]
Aryeh Ben-Eliezer Gahal 29 January 1970 56
Haim-Moshe Shapira Mafdal 16 July 1970 68[19]
Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir Mafdal 4 April 1971 60
Yitzhak-Meir Levin Agudat Yisrael 7 August 1971[20] 78
Mordechai Ofer Alignment 1 September 1971 47
Yosef Sapir Gahal 26 February 1972 70[21]
Moshe Sneh Maki 1 March 1972[22] 63
Reuven Barkat Alignment 5 April 1972 65
Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi Alignment 14 February 1974[23] 48
Uzi Feinerman Alignment 8 April 1975 50-51
Michael Hasani Mafdal 2 July 1975 62
Pinchas Sapir Alignment 12 August 1975 68 Heart attack[24]
Zvi Guershoni Alignment 1 September 1976 60-61
Avraham Ofer Alignment 3 January 1977 54-55 Suicide[25]
Yehoshua Rabinovitz Alignment 14 August 1979 67 Heart attack[26]
Yigal Allon Alignment 29 February 1980 61 Heart failure[27]
Hamad Abu Rabia Ra'am 12 January 1981 51-52 Assassinated[28]
Hanna Mwais Hadash 13 February 1981[29] 67-68
Moshe Dayan Telem (1981 political party) 16 October 1981 66 Heart attack, colon cancer[30]
Moshe Harif Alignment 15 January 1982 48 Traffic collision[31]
David Shiffman Likud 18 October 1982 59
Simcha Erlich Likud 19 June 1983[32] 67
Yitzhak Seiger Likud 5 February 1985 48
Michael Reisser Likud 27 October 1988 42 Traffic collision[33]
Yigal Cohen Likud 6 December 1988 59-60
Tawfiq Ziad Hadash 5 July 1994 65 Traffic collision[34]
Mordechai Gur Labor 16 July 1995 65 Suicide[35]
Haim Kaufman Likud 7 August 1995 60
Yitzhak Rabin Labor 4 November 1995 73 Assassinated[36]
Ariel Weinstein Likud 20 July 1996 63 Heart attack[37]
Avraham Stern Mafdal 12 May 1997 61
Zevulun Hammer Mafdal 20 January 1998 61[38]
Rehavam Ze'evi National Union 17 October 2001 75 Assassinated during the Second Intifada[39]
Yehudit Naot Shinui 16 December 2004 60 Throat cancer[40]
Yuri Stern Yisrael Beiteinu 16 January 2007 57 Cancer[41]
Avraham Ravitz UTJ 26 January 2009 57 Heart disease[42]
Ze'ev Boim Kadima 18 March 2011 67 Cancer[43]
Gideon Ezra Kadima 17 May 2012 74 Lung cancer[44]
Uri Orbach Jewish Home 16 February 2015 54 Chronic hematologic disease[45]
Said al-Harumi Ra'am 25 August 2021 49 Heart attack[46]

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  5. ^ "Haim Ariav, Deputy Speaker of Israel Parliament, Dies in Tel Aviv". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 18 June 1957. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  6. ^ "American Zionist Groups Mourn Death of Sprinzak; Issue Tribute". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 30 January 1959. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Minister Giora Yoseftal Died in Switzerland and His Coffin Arrives to Israel". Israel Film Archive. 1962. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
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  31. ^ "Moshe Harif, Wife and Son Killed in a Traffic Accident". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 18 January 1982. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
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