|
Party
|
Knesset Mandates(out of 120)
|
Last Knesset
|
|---|---|---|
|
One Israel A coalition of Labor, led by Ehud Barak; Meimad (moderate, pro-peace religious party); and Gesher, based on Jews of Moroccan origin, led by David Levy, formerly in the Likud |
2
|
34 (Labor)
|
|
Likud Nationalist-rightist party led by Binyamin Netanyahu, in power since 1996 |
19
|
32 (with Gesher and Tsomet, the latter out of the
Knesset)
|
|
Shas Sephardi Guardians of the Torah: ultra-Orthodox party of Sephardi Jews, mainly of Moroccan origin, led in elections by Arieh Der'i |
17
|
10
|
|
Meretz Leftist dovish and civil rights party, led by Yossi Sarid |
10
|
9
|
|
Center Party Led by Yitzhak Mordechai |
6
|
--
|
|
Shinui Secular, violently anti-ultra-Orthodox party, led by Josef Lapid |
6
|
1
|
|
Yisrael ba-Aliya Russian immigrants party, led by Nathan Sharansky |
6
|
7
|
|
Yahadut ha-Torah (United Torah Judaism) Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox, led by Meir Porush |
5
|
4
|
|
Arab Democratic Party - a combined Arab list led by Abdel Malik Dahamshe |
5
|
4
|
|
Mafdal (National Religious Party) A pro-settler party, led by Yitzhak Levy |
5
|
9
|
|
Israel Beitenu (Israel Our Home) Rightist Russian immigrant party, led by Avigdor Lieberman |
4
|
--
|
|
Ichud Leumi Alliance of Jewish ultra-nationalists, led in elections by Benny Begin |
4
|
2 (the Moledet faction)
|
|
Hadash Arab-Jewish Communist-oriented, led by Mohammad Baraka |
3
|
5
|
|
Balad Union of two Arab parties, led by Azmi Bishara who was in Hadash |
2
|