The following is a list of members of the Knesset who died in office.
Member | Party | Date of death | Age at death (years) | Cause | |
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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] |