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Knesset member

Legislative branch of government · National government

Knesset member is an entity described in industry reference data. It is not linked to any risk indications in our database, and it has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Position				[sources]
Name	Knesset Member · Knesset member · Member of the Knesset				[sources]
Country	Israel				[sources]
Inception date	1949-02-14				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q4047513				[sources]
Last change	2026-02-23	Last processed	2026-03-25	First seen	2019-05-21

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Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories341,348

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Israel Knesset Members469

Current Members of Israel's house of representatives

Israel · Knesset

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,626

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,442

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-a115ad19c1c3b2b1f566a20924f4602ea3cd5892 · il-knesset-5d5259bcf1216eecb7a246ac985fb100f175fd81

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