Kippa leads • third of the 19th Knesset members - religious

29 religious MKs served in the previous Knesset: 11 Knesset members of Shas, Yahadut Hatorah 5, the three members of the Knesset of the Bayit Hayehudi and three of the Ichud Leumi – besides Aryeh Eldad. Likud had Yuli Edelstein, Tzipi Hotovely, Zeev Elkin, Leah Ness and Zion Pinyan from Likud, Ethniel Schneller of Kadima and David Rotem of Yisrael Beiteinu.


At the time, this number was considered a peak of all time, but the peak lasted just one Knesset, until it broke again - big time. About a third of the 19th Knesset members – 39 in total – are religious.


It is important to emphasize that this does not mean necessarily that all the MKs will support common positions of the charedi and religious, and some even became famous precisely because of enmity.

The division is as follows: First 11 Shas MKs - Eli Yishai, Aryeh Deri, Ariel Atias, Yitzchak Cohen, Meshulam Nahari, Amnon Cohen, Yakov Margi, David Azoulay, Yitzhak Vaknin, Nissim Zeev and Avraham Michaeli, 7 MKs of Yahadut Hatorah – Yaakov Litzman, Moshe Gafni, Meir Porush, Uri Maklev, Menachem Moses, Yisrael Eichler and Yaakov Asher.


They are joined by 11 Habayit Hayehudi MK's - except Ayelet Shaked: Naftali Bennett, Uri Ariel, Nissan Slomiansky, Eli Ben-Dahan, Uri Orbach, Zevulun Kalfa, Avi Wartzman, Mordechai Yogev, Orit Struck, Yonathan Sitbon and Shuli Mualem.

Yesh Atid surprises with three religious MKs - Shai Piron, Aliza Lavie and Dov Lipman.


Hatnua provides a list the former head of the Human Resources Branch, Elazar Stern, and six more will come from Likud: Yuli Edelstein, Zeev Elkin, Tzipi Hotovely, David Rotem, Moshe Feiglin and Shimon Ohayon.

The left parties are clean from the religious: Avoad, Meretz, Arab parties and Kadima does not include any religious members

As stated, this is a record number - and it is hard to see it broken in the coming years. But as the way of records they are designed to break down eventually, and all that remains is to wait and see.

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!