The following is a list of members of the Knesset who died in office.
List Member Party Date of death Age at death (years) Cause Avraham Taviv 20 April 1950Knesset Members in the First Knesset Knesset website 60-61 Yehezkel Hen 4 April 1952 69-70 Eliezer Kaplan 13 July 1952 61 David-Zvi Pinkas 14 August 1952David-Zvi Pinkas Knesset 56 Heart disease Eliyahu Hacarmeli 21 December 1952 61 Avraham Deutsch 25 May 1953 63-64 Yitzhak Yitzhaky 21 September 1955 52 Haim Ariav 18 June 1957 62 Avraham Abaas 17 September 1958 45-46 Yosef Sprinzak 28 January 1959 73 Zalman Ben-Ya'akov 2 March 1959 61-62 Shimshon Unichman 21 March 1961 54 Binyamin Mintz 30 May 1961 58 Giora Yoseftal 23 August 1962 50 Herzl Berger 29 August 1962 58 Hanan Rubin 24 October 1962 54 Mordechai Nurock 9 November 1962 74 Heart disease Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg 2 April 1963 63 Ami Assaf 17 May 1963Ami Assaf: Public Activities Knesset website 61 Heart attack Meir Argov 24 November 1963 57 Heart attack Jenia Tversky 9 April 1964 59 Avraham Drori 20 August 1964 45 Yisrael Bar-Yehuda 4 May 1965 69 Moshe Sharett 7 July 1965 70 Lung cancer Eliyahu Meridor 16 October 1966 52 Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit 28 January 1967 71-72 Ya'akov Katz 21 December 1967 60 Levi Eshkol 26 February 1969 73 Heart attack Aryeh Ben-Eliezer 29 January 1970 56 Haim-Moshe Shapira 16 July 1970 68 Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir 4 April 1971 60 Yitzhak-Meir Levin 7 August 1971Thousands Pay Last Respects to Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Levin, 77, Agudath Israel Leader Jewish Telegraph Agency, 9 August 1971 78 Mordechai Ofer 1 September 1971 47 Yosef Sapir 26 February 1972 70 Moshe Sneh 1 March 1972Dr. Sneh to be buried in accordance with Jewish religious tradition 63 Reuven Barkat 5 April 1972 65 Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi 14 February 1974Abd-El-Aziz E-Zoubi: Public Activities Knesset website 48 Uzi Feinerman 8 April 1975 50-51 Michael Hasani 2 July 1975 62 Pinchas Sapir 12 August 1975 68 Heart attack Zvi Guershoni 1 September 1976 60-61 Avraham Ofer 3 January 1977 54-55 Suicide Yehoshua Rabinovitz 14 August 1979 67 Heart attack Yigal Allon 29 February 1980 61 Heart failure Hamad Abu Rabia 12 January 1981 51-52 Assassinated Hanna Mwais 13 February 1981Hanna Mwais: Personal Details Knesset 67-68 Moshe Dayan 16 October 1981 66 Heart attack, colon cancer Moshe Harif 16 January 1982 48 Traffic collision David Shiffman 18 October 1982 59 Simcha Erlich 19 June 1983 67 Yitzhak Seiger 5 February 1985 48 Michael Reisser 27 October 1988 42 Traffic collisionItzik power NRG, 4 February 2005 Yigal Cohen 6 December 1988 59-60 Tawfiq Ziad 5 July 1994 65 Traffic collision Mordechai Gur 16 July 1995 65 Suicide Haim Kaufman 7 August 1995 60 Yitzhak Rabin 4 November 1995 73 Assassinated Ariel Weinstein 20 July 1996 63 Heart attack Avraham Stern 12 May 1997 61 Zevulun Hammer 20 January 1998 61 Rehavam Ze'evi 17 October 2001 75 Assassinated during the Second Intifada Yehudit Naot 16 December 2004 60 Throat cancerWeb site names celebs who died from smoking The Jerusalem Post, 24 October 2005 Yuri Stern 16 January 2007 57 Cancer Avraham Ravitz 26 January 2009 57 Heart disease Ze'ev Boim 18 March 2011 67 Cancer Gideon Ezra 17 May 2012 74 Lung cancer Uri Orbach 16 February 2015 54 Chronic hematologic diseaseEx-Jewish Home minister Uri Orbach dies at 54 Times of Israel, 16 February 2015 Said al-Harumi 25 August 2021 49 Heart attack
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