Israel Knesset Members

JSON

Current Members of Israel's house of representatives

This dataset comprises information about current members of the Knesset, the Israeli house of representatives.

The Knesset also supervises the work of the government (the executive branch) and carries out several quasi-judicial roles. As an electorate body, the Knesset elects the President of the State and the State Comptroller. The Knesset has 120 members and is located in Jerusalem.

Ongoing data source outage
[il_knesset_members] Expected media type application/json but got text/html for https://knesset.gov.il/WebSiteApi/knessetapi/MKs/GetMksDropdown?languageKey=en
Related GitHub issue: opensanctions/opensanctions#3731

Data overview

Entities:
Total1,656
Searchable429
Targets428
Entity types:
People428
Positions1
Countries:
Israel429
Publisher:Knesset · Israel

Israeli house of representatives

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:knesset.gov.il
Source data:knesset.gov.il · JSON
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:2026-05-22 19:31:02 · v. 20260522193102-ttx
Last change:
Warnings:1 Warning

Bulk download

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities802.4 KB
names.txtTarget names text file14.96 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format366.58 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON1.32 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV78.41 KB

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Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Adi AzuzPersonIsrael
Samir Abu SaidPersonIsrael
Afef AbedPersonIsrael
Alon TalPersonIsrael
Meir SheetritPersonIsrael
Alali AdamsoPersonIsrael
Desta Gadi YevarkanPersonIsrael
Tsega MelakuPersonIsrael
Zvi SuccotPersonIsrael
Shelly MeronPersonIsrael
Osher ShekalimPersonIsrael
Almog CohenPersonIsrael
Yasser HujeiratPersonIsrael
Tali GottleibPersonIsrael
Debbie BitonPersonIsrael
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