Israel Election 2019: Complete List of Elected Parties and Lawmakers

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With 95 percent of votes counted, the following is the list of of candidates expected to become members in the next Knesset.

There are 49 new lawmakers, of them 11 are in Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and 24 in Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid’s Kahol Lavan.

The number of women parliamentarians remains the same – 29 out of 120. This places Israel in the 76th place internationally in women’s representation (compared to 66th place in 2015 election).

In addition, 98 Knesset members were born in Israel and 22 were born abroad.

LIKUD, HEADED BY PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Likud champions tough security policies when it comes to Iran, Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Many of its members oppose the creation of a Palestinian state. Benjamin Netanyahu, in a last-minute election promise, said he would annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term. In the run-up to the vote, Likud has rallied around Netanyahu, who is facing possible indictment in three corruption cases in which he has denied any wrongdoing.

1 Benjamin Netanyahu

2 Yuli Edelstein

3 Yisrael Katz

4 Gilad Erdan

5 Gideon Sa’ar

6 Miri Regev

7 Yariv Levin

8 Yoav Gallant

9 Nir Barkat

10 Gila Gamliel

11 Avi Dichter

12 Zeev Elkin

13 Haim Katz

14 Tzachi Hanegbi

15 Ofir Akunis

16 Yuval Steinitz

17 Tzipi Hotovely

18 David Amsalem

19 Pinchas Idan

20 Amir Ohana

21 Ofir Katz

22 Eti Atiya

23 Yoav Kish

24 David Bitan

25 Keren Barak

26 Shlomo Karhi

27 Miki Zohar

28 Eli Ben Dahan

29 Sharren Haskel

30 Michal Shir

31 Kathy Sheetrit

32 Patin Mula

33 May Golan

34 Uzi Dayan

35 Ariel Kallner

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara wave as Netanyahu speaks at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 10, 2019.Tomer Appelbaum

KAHOL LAVAN, HEADED BY BENNY GANTZ

Former military chief Gantz emerged as a serious rival to Netanyahu. His Gantz is a popular former armed forces chief and a political newcomer. He joined forces with the right-wing Moshe Yaalon, a former defence minister, and centre-left former finance minister Yair Lapid to form the new centrist Kahol Lavan party. Gantz has called for pursuing peace with the Palestinians while maintaining Israeli security interests. He has signalled he would make territorial concessions toward the Palestinians but has also sidestepped the question of Palestinian statehood.

1 Benny Gantz

2 Yair Lapid

3 Moshe Ya’alon

4 Gabi Ashkenazi

5 Avi Nissenkorn

6 Meir Cohen

7 Miki Haimovich

8 Ofer Shelah

9 Yoaz Hendel

10 Orna Barbivai

11 Michael Biton

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12 Chili Tropper

13 Yael German

14 Zvi Hauser

15 Orit Farkash-Hacohen

16 Karin Elharrar

17 Meirav Cohen

18 Yoel Razvozov

19 Asaf Zamir

20 Izhar Shay

21 Elazar Stern

22 Mickey Levy

23 Omer Yankelevich

24 Pnina Tamano-Shata

25 Gadeer Mreeh

26 Ram Ben Barak

27 Alon Shuster

28 Yoav Segalovitz

29 Ram Shefa

30 Boaz Toporovsky

31 Orly Fruman

32 Eitan Ginzburg

33 Gadi Yevarkan

34 Idan Roll

35 Yorai Lahav Hertzanu

File photo: Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman makes his way to the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, March 25, 2018.Marc Israel Sellem

UNITED TORAH JUDAISM, HEADED BY DEPUTY HEALTH MINISTER YAAKOV LITZMAN

United Torah Judaism represents ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredim, of European origin. Successive coalition governments have had to rely on support from ultra-Orthodox parties, which traditionally put their sectoral demands above larger issues like security and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. UTJ is primarily concerned with safeguarding state benefits for Haredi men who devote themselves to full-time religious study and do not serve in the conscript military or work.

1 Yaakov Litzman

2 Moshe Gafni

3 Meir Porush

4 Uri Maklev

5 Yaakov Tessler

6 Yakov Asher

7 Israel Eichler

8 Yitzhak Pindrus

Chairman of Shas party Arye Dery in party headquarters, Jerusalem, Israel, April 9, 2019. Olivier Fitoussi

SHAS, HEADED BY INTERIOR MINISTER ARYE DERY

Allied with UTJ, Shas (an acronym for Union of Sephardic Torah Observers) has like UTJ been an almost permanent fixture in successive governments and represents Haredi Jews of Middle Eastern origin. Its chairman Arye Deri, has previously served two years in prison for bribery.

1 Arye Dery

2 Yitzhak Cohen

3 Meshulam Nahari

4 Yaakov Margi

5 Yoav Ben-Tzur

6 Michael Malkieli

7 David Azoulay

8 Moshe Abutbul

File photo: Hadash chairman Ayman Odeh at a party conference in Shfaram, February 1, 2019.Rami Shllush

HADASH-TA’AL, HEADED BY AYMAN ODEH AND AHMAD TIBI

The socialist Jewish-Arab Hadash-Ta’al party draws most of its voters from Israel’s 20 percent Arab minority. It advocates an Arab-Jewish alliance to fight discrimination, racism and social inequality in Israel. Arab parties have never joined governing coalitions in Israel.

1 Ayman Odeh

2 Ahmad Tibi

3 Aida Touma-Sliman

4 Osama Saadi

5 Ofer Cassif

6 Yousef Jabareen

File photo: Avi Gabbay arrives to vote during the Labor primary in Tel Aviv, February 11, 2019.Jack Guez/AFP

LABOR, HEADED BY AVI GABBAY

Defined as social democratic, Labor has long been the dominant center-left party in Israel, although its popularity has steadily waned over the past decade. Labor’s campaign has stressed social and economic reform, as well as pursuing peace and a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

1 Avi Gabbay

2 Tal Russo

3 Itzik Shmuli

4 Stav Shaffir

5 Shelly Yacimovich

6 Amir Peretz

File photo: MK Bezalel Smotrich at a political event in Jerusalem, February 4, 2019.Ilan Assayag

RIGHTIST UNION, HEADED BY RAFI PERETZ AND BEZALEL SMOTRICH

The union includes Jewish Power, an ultra-nationalist religious party that includes disciples of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane who advocated the "transfer" of Palestinians to neighbouring Arab countries and a ban on intermarriage between Jews and Arabs. It is the most prominent political representative of Israeli settlers in the West Bank. It repudiates the idea of a Palestinian state and stresses Israel’s biblical and religious connections to land Palestinians seek for a state.

1 Rafi Peretz

2 Bezalel Smotrich

3 Moti Yogev

4 Ofir Sofer

5 Idit Salman

File photo: Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman at a campaign event in Ashkelon, southern Israel, February 19, 2019.Ilan Assayag

YISRAEL BEITEINU, HEADED BY AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN

Yisrael Beiteinu’s leader, Moldovan-born Lieberman, is a former defence minister whose policies include trading Arab towns in Israel to any future Palestinian state for territory in the West Bank where Jewish settlements have been built. He also wants to make loyalty to the state a condition for citizenship. The far-right party counts on the support of immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

1 Avigdor Lieberman

2 Oded Forer

3 Evgeny Sova

4 Eli Avidar

5 Yulia Malinovsky

File photo: Meretz leader Tamar Zandberg and MKs Ilan Gilon and Michal Rozin at a campaign event in Tel Aviv, February 14, 2019.Tomer Appelbaum

MERETZ, HEADED BY TAMAR ZANDBERG

The left-wing party has not been part of a coalition government in the past two decades. Popular with liberal middle-class Israelis, Meretz advocates a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

1 Tamar Zandberg

2 Ilan Gilon

3 Michal Rozin

4 Esawi Freige

File photo: Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon gives a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 13, 2019.Jack Guez/AFP

KULANU, HEADED BY FINANCE MINISTER MOSHE KAHLON

A former Likud member, Kahlon has partly come through on his pledge to halt soaring housing prices but has fallen short on dramatically reducing overall living costs. Kulanu casts itself as moderate right-wing and has focused its campaign on socio-economic issues.

1 Moshe Kahlon

2 Eli Cohen

3 Yifat Shasha-Biton

4 Roy Folkman

UNITED ARAB LIST-BALAD, HEADED BY ABBAS MANSOUR AND MTANES SHEHADEH

File photo: United Arab List-Balad leader Mansour Abbas and Mtanes Shehadeh attend a High Court hearing, March 14, 2019.Olivier Fitoussi

United Arab List-Balad’s leaders are a mix of Islamist and Arab nationalists. It describes itself as a democratic movement opposed to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.

1 Mansour Abbas

2 Mtanes Shehadeh

3 Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya

4 Heba Yazbak

Hayamin Hehadash, Zehut, Gesher did not pass the 3.25-percent electoral threshold and will not be represented in the next Knesset.

Likud party members on stage with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 10, 2019.Tomer Appelbaum