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The following is a list of the Members of the 17th Knesset, elected on 28 March 2006 and inaugurated 4 May 2006, and their replacements.
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Blue indicates a party is a member of the governing coalition, whilst red indicates that the party is in opposition.
1 This title, called in Hebrew ממלא מקום ראש הממשלה (Memale Mekom Rosh HaMemshala, lit. Prime Minister's Place Filler), means Livni is first in line to replace the Prime Minister in case of incapacitation or death; it does not mean she currently exercises any Prime Ministerial duties.
² Labour filed a law suit, alleging electoral fraud in several Arab settlements and requesting to grant it an additional seat at the expense of the United Arab List. This suit proved successful, Zakour will be replaced with Labour's Shakib Shanan.
3 Gil parliamentary group split in April 2008, having MKs Sharoni, Marom and Glazer in the Justice for the Elderly faction. In October 2008, Sharoni and Marom reunited with Gil, leaving Glazer to form The Right Way parliamentary group.
| Name | Party | Replaced by | Remarks |
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| Uriel Reichman | Kadima | Shai Hermesh | Resigned on 20 April, 2006 after the role of Minister of Education, promised to him by Ariel Sharon, was given to Labour. |
| Natan Sharansky | Likud | Haim Katz | Sharansky retired from politics and left the Knesset on 20 November 2006. |
| Yuri Stern | Yisrael Beiteinu | David Rotem | Stern died of cancer on 16 January, 2007. |
| Dan Naveh | Likud | Yuli-Yoel Edelstein | Naveh resigned to go into business on 27 February, 2007. |
| Azmi Bishara | Balad | Said Nafa | Bishara resigned from the Knesset on 22 April, 2007 due to a police investigation into his activities during the 2006 Lebanon War. |
| Shimon Peres | Kadima | Yitzhak Ben Yisrael | Peres resigned from the Knesset following his election as president on 13 June 2007. |
| Shlomo Breznitz | Kadima | Yohanan Plesner | Breznitz retired from politics and left the Knesset on 8 October 2007. |
| Avigdor Yitzhaki | Kadima | Shlomo Mula | Yitzhaki resigned from the Knesset on 7 February 2008 due to "serious doubts over Ehud Olmert's ability to lead the government in the wake of the Winograd Report".[1] |
| Shlomo Benizri | Shas | Mazor Bahaina | Benizri resigned from the Knesset on 27 April 2008 after being convicted of bribery. |
| Efraim Sneh | Labour | Shakhiv Shana'an | Sneh resigned from the Knesset on 28 May 2008 as he left Labour to found his own party. |
| Danny Yatom | Labour | Leon Litinski | Yatom resigned from the Knesset on 30 June 2008 due to a lack of confidence in the government. |
| Ya'akov Cohen | United Torah Judaism | Uri Maklev | Cohen resigned from the Knesset due to a rotation agreement. |
| Yossi Beilin | Meretz-Yachad | Tzvia Greenfeld | Beilin retired from politics and left the Knesset on on 4 November 2008. |
| Avraham Ravitz | United Torah Judaism | Yehoshua Menachem Pollack | Ravitz died on 26 January 2009. |
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