Complete List - Candidates for the 16th Knesset January 28 2003 Elections
as submitted by the parties to the Central Elections Committee
(updated Jan 9, 2003)
Source: Foreign Ministry Website
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0mv80

A party needs 1.5% of the vote to pass the threshold.

AHAVAT YISRAEL [IMRA: Breakaway party from Shas, endorsed by Rabbi Kadourie]
1. Yosef Kadourie 2. Meir Michel Amar 3. Rafael Barel 4. Shimon Balati
5. Dan Ben Eliyahu 6. Shimon Gerson 7. David Buchanik 8. Israel
Solomon 9. Nissim Cohen 10. Michael Zeituni

AM EHAD (One Nation) [IMRA: David Tal is a former Shas MK and Addisu Messele
a former Labor Party MK. Ethiopian born Messele was bumped from his position
in the Labor Party list slot for immigrants in the 1999 elections via ballot
stuffing that gave the position to Russian born Sofa Landver. Despite the
overwhelming evidence, those behind the criminal activity to put a Russian
rather than Ethiopian in the immigrant slot have never been prosecuted.]
1. Amir Peretz 2. Ilana Cohen 3. David Tal 4. Addisu Messele 5. Ora
Namir 6. Leon Marozovsky 7. Hasib Abud 8. Sami Halabi 9. Leon
Litinsky 10. Ruti Admon

CENTER [IMRA: Magen was reported to have thrown his support to Likud but the
party is running]
1. David Magen 2. Avraham Albert Tovotz 3. Alexander Tenzer
4. Larissa Tzfovesky 5. Moshe Peretz 6. Itai Hoz 7. Aharon Bizer 8.
Shabtai Azriel 9. Lisa Katz 10. Eldad Halahmi
Center Party website

CITIZEN AND STATE
1. Alexander Zinker 2. Alexander Eterman 3. Waslav Premusler
4. Michael Seltzer 5. Arina Belozor 6. Sofia Pavlov 7. Mira Tzipori
8. Julia Malinovsky 9. Anna Cohen 10. Arkadi Mashkof

DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR PEACE AND EQUALITY/ARAB MOVEMENT FOR RENEWAL
(HADASH-TA'AL)
1. Mohammad Barakeh 2. Issam Mahoul 3. Ahmed Tibi 4. Dov Hanin 5.
Tagrid Shavita 6. Yosef Ataouna 7. Osama Saadia 8. Abdallah Abu-Marof
9. Yishai Shmuel Menuhim 10. Eli Hider

GESHER [IMRA:David Levy,who headed Gesher, returned to Likud, but the party
is running]
1. Eti Shiraz Asor 2. Avraham Ben Shitreet 3. Arieh Marciano 4. Israel
Ashval 5. Iris Malka 6. Yaffa Levy

GREEN LEAF (Ale Yarok) [IMRA: For legalizing marijuana use and
prostitution.]
1. Boaz Wachtel 2. Dan Goldenblatt 3. Hila Doron 4. Shai Hakim
5. Elad Shai 6. Avraham Bardugo 7. Binyamin Nissim Tours 8. Tamar
Schreiber 9. Isabel Tzimlin 10. Devora Mosinzon Ranan

GREEN PARTY (Yerukim)
1. Pe'er Wisner 2. Hadas Shakhnai 3. Tzur Shizaf 4. Noah Berkovitch
Pascal 5. Shmuel Viloznei 6. Moshe Aliman 7. Ya'akov Flexer

HERUT [IMRA: Kleiner broke away from National Union after the 1999
elections. The inclusion of Marzel, an ultra-orthodox formerly with Kach,
was challenged but approved by the Central Elections Committe and passed a
chellenge in the Supreme Court.]
1. Michael Kleiner 2. Baruch Marzel 3. Eliyahu Saar 4. Michael Ben-Ari
5. Elionor Shifrin 6. Noam Livnat 7. Paul Eidelberg 8. Drora Baram
9. Yehuda David 10. Israel Hanukoglu

LABOR-MEIMAD
1. Amram Mitzna 2. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer 3. Shimon Peres 4. Matan
Vilnai 5. Avraham Burg 6. Dalia Itzik 7. Ophir Pines-Paz 8. Ephraim
Sneh 9. Yael Tamir 10. Michael Melchior 11. Yitzhak Herzog
12. Haim Ramon 13. Danny Yatom 14. Eitan Cabel 15. Avraham Shohat
16. Colette Avital 17. Shalom Simhon 18. Orit Noked 19. Eli
Ben-Menachem 20. Galeb Majadla 21. Salah Tarif 22. Sofa Landver 23.
Weizmann Shiri 24. Avi Yehezkel 25. Efi Oshaya 26. Shmuel Abuav 27.
Tova Ilan 28. Ronen Tzur 29. Shula Cohen 30. Dan Koren 31. Orna
Angel 32. Neta Dovrin 33. Benny Levin 34. Lama Lagishiel 35. Ali
Hussein Hujirat 36. Eli Amir 37. Shimon Shitrit 38. Yigal Tzahor 39.
Einat Wilf 40. Daniel Cohen 41. Lior Strasberg 42. Shlomi Navon 43.
Yonina Flanberg 44. Itai Gilboa 45. Ronen Hoffman
46. Ofer Korbfeld 47. Ahmed Hassan Sayad 48. Yosef Kastel
49. Ibrahim Beu-Ras 50. Hedva Almog

LAHAVA
1. Avraham Ovadia 2. Judy Jolia Don 3. Mordechai Ashkenazi 4. Maya
Ben-Zion 5. Eilon Yarden 6. Esther Alexander 7. Eliaz Cohen 8.
Eliezer Levinger 9. Alona Lipshitz 10. Avraham Kezes

LEEDER
1. Alexander Radko 2. Yevgeny Shpitz 3. Sergei Mor 4. Alexander
Bergensky 5. Albert Goffman 6. Leonard Shefel 7. Boris Konin 8. Ilya
Liabdov 9. Victoria Berlin 10. Margarita Shalosh

LIKUD
1. Ariel Sharon 2. Binyamin Netanyahu 3. Tzahi Hanegbi 4. Silvan
Shalom 5. Dan Naveh 6. Limor Livnat 7. Israel Katz 8. Gideon Ezra
9. Nomi Blumenthal 10. Uzi Landau 11. Gila Gamliel 12. Yuval Steinitz
13. Tzipi Livni 14. Michael Eitan 15. Meir Sheetrit 16. David Levy
17. Ruhama Avraham 18. Gideon Sa'ar 19. Daniel Ben-Lulu
20. Michael Ratzon 21. Majallie Whbee 22. Ya'acov Edri 23. Ehud Yatom
24. Eli Aflalo 25. Moshe Kahlon 26. Omri Sharon 27. Michael Gorlovsky
28. Inbal Gavrieli 29. Gilad Erdan 30. Roni Bar-On
31. Yehiel Hazan 32. Ehud Olmert 33. Leah Ness 34. Ze'ev Boim
35. Avraham Herschson 36. Reuven Rivlin 37. Haim Katz 38. Ayoub Kara
39. Pnina Rosenblum 40. Eitan Sulami 41. Avigdor Kahalani
42. Zion Pinyan 43. David Mena 44. Shlomi Durani 45. Roni Milo
46. Yossi Ahimeir 47. Sima Navon 48. Shai Bazak 49. Eli Cohen Artzi
50. David Amar

MEN'S RIGHTS IN FAMILY (RAASH) [IMRA: The advertisements of the party,
featuring the chain smoking leader who complains about how divorced men get
a raw deal, have become a classic of the periodic elections. This time they
added taxi drivers (promise not to require running the meter for every fare
and to lower fuel prices) and weekend party organizers.]
1. Ya'akov Schlosser 2. El-Chai Avikser 3. Abraham Torati 4. Shmuel
Greenberg 5. Haim Arikha 6. Oded Davidson 7. Siyum Todela

MERETZ [IMRA: Beilin and Dayan left the Labor Party after performing poorly
in the primaries. For some reason the party television campaign failed to
even once run a spot with Sarid and Dayan talking of their concern for the
future of their grandchildren (their children are married to each other)]
1. Yossi Sarid 2. Haim Oron 3. Ran Cohen 4. Zahava Gal-On
5. Roman Bronfman 6. Avshalom Vilan 7. Ilan Gillon 8. Moshe Raz
9. Naomi Hazan 10. Hussniya Jabara 11. Yossi Beilin 12. Yael Dayan
13. Michal Shohat 14. Yoav Kreim 15. Uzi Even 16. Issawi Farj 17.
Nagist Mangasha 18. Yevgeni Malamud 19. Gabi Lasky
20. Shosh Arar

MORESHET AVOT (Tradition of the Fathers) [IMRA: Withdrew from race and
endorsed NRP. Ba-Gad used to be in Moledet]
1. Yosef Ba-Gad 2. Shlomo Gross 3. Michael Ba-Gad 4. Moshe Ba-Gad

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ASSEMBLY (NDA - BALAD)
1. Azmi Bishara 2. Jamal Zkhalka 3. Wasal Taha 4. Afnaan Agbaya
5. Fathi Daka 6. Abdallah Shahin 7. Makhasen Kiss 8. Gumah Azbarga
9. Fahim Haj Yihyeh 10. Abed Rahim Fukra

NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTY (NRP - MAFDAL)
1. Efrayim Eitam 2. Zevulun Orlev 3. Shaul Yahalomn 4. Yitzhak Levy
5. Gila Finkelstein 6. Nissan Slomiansky 7. Eliyahu Gabbai 8. Yigal
Bibi 9. Shmaryahu Ben-Zur 10. Haim Falk 11. Yehudit Shilat 12. Arieh
Farjun 13. Yaffa Peretz 14. Moshe Edan 15. Aharon Gimani 16. Gad Dei
17. Aharon Kopolovitz 18. Meir Yifrah 19. Eliezer Shefer
20. Shmuel Shkedi

NATIONAL UNITY (Yisrael Beiteinu, Moledet, Tekuma)
1. Avigdor Lieberman 2. Binyamin Elon 3. Yuri Stern 4. Zvi Hendel
5. Michael Nudleman 6. Uri Yehuda Ariel 7. Arieh Eldad 8. Eliezer
Cohen 9. Estherina Tartman 10. Uri Bank 11. Reuven El Din 12.
Alexander Epstein 13. David Saada 14. Nina Martinenko 15. Ya'akov Bar
Shimon 16. Nahman Eyal 17. Natan Abramov 18. Issachar Mekunan 19.
Hemed Amar 20. Moshe Peretz

ORGANIZATION FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION (ODA - DAAM)
1. Asma Agbariya 2. Nir Nadar 3. Samia Hatib 4. Hadas Lahav
5. Hitam Naamna 6. Michal Friedman 7. Ya'akov Ben Efrat

PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL ALLIANCE [IMRA: Party faced pressure to withdraw out of
fear it won't pass threshold - including shots fired at Hussein Osmadin as
he was driving]
1. Hashem Mahameed 2. Hussein Osmadin 3. Ahmed Hajasi 4. Anaat Atamna
5. Tawfik Kasum 6. Yusuf Jabur 7. Sina Kersh 8. Riyad Issawi 9.
Ibrahim Haj Yihyeh 10. Omar Ali

SHAS
1. Eli Yishai 2. Shlomo Benizri 3. Nissim Dahan 4. Amnon Cohen
5. Yitzhak Cohen 6. David Azoulay 7. Meshulam Nahari 8. Yitzhak Vaknin
9. Yair Peretz 10. Nissim Ze'ev 11. Ya'akov Margi 12. Ofer Hugi 13.
Pinhas Tzabari 14. Yoav Ben Tzur 15. Lior Gabai 16. Rafael Malakhi
17. Shmuel Ben Atar 18. David Yifrah 19. Mazor Maroy Bahaina 20. David
Telkar

SHINUI
1. Yosef Lapid 2. Avraham Poraz 3. Yehudit Naot 4. Yosef Paritzky 5.
Eliezer Zandberg 6. Victor Brailovsky 7. Ilan Shalgi 8. Melli
Polishuk-Bloch 9. Reshef Ari Chen 10. Ronnie Brizon 11. Ehud Ratzabi
12. Etti Livni 13. Ilan Leibovitch 14. Hemi Doron 15. Yigal Yasinov
16. Arela Golan 17. Rona Barada Manosevitch 18. Adir Binyamini 19.
Yitzhak Elner 20. Munir Hamdan

TORAH AND SHABBAT JUDAISM [IMRA: Also known as Yahadut Hatorah]
1. Ya'akov Litzman 2. Avraham Ravitz 3. Meir Porush 4. Moshe Gafni
5. Israel Eichler 6. Shmuel Halpert 7. Uri Israel Meir Maklov 8.
Ya'akov Cohen 9. Zvi Boimel 10. Yosef Abu

TZOMET [IMRA: Party formerly headed by Raful Eitan. Since party still
existed it was able to run without collecting signatures]
1. Moshe Green 2. Haim Adini 3. Zahava Zarhi 4. Saguy Karpe 5. Gila
Gavita 6. Batya Zax 7. Moshe Sasson 8. Michael Yeul 9. Saguy
Zokerman 10. Eliyahu Dahan

UNITED ARAB LIST
1. Abdel Malek Dehamshe 2. Taleb a-Sana'a 3. Salman Abu Ahmed 4.
Muhammad Kena'an 5. Ibrahim al-Amor 6. Rukiah Biyadsa 7. Adel Hamiso
8. Abu Sahivan Moussa 9. Hussam Adali 10. Yunis Gavarin

YISRAEL AHERET [IMRA: Party that was originally thought, based on polls when
elections were not on the horizon, to have a shot at becoming a major
party. The party refused to identify the sources of its foreign funding and
proposes to have the country run by technocrats rather than democratically
elected officials. The party was originally also supported by some Israeli
industrialists. Though the party claimed to be neutral regarding
Israeli-Arab issues, it is composed of groups from the Left.]
1. Boaz Nol 2. Eitan Ginzberg 3. Itai Ben-Horin 4. Ofer Even 5. Eyal
Naveh 6. Miri Rossman 7. Eyal Yehuda Gur 8. Effi Shaked 9. Dan
Frishman 10. Ya'akov Ellenbogen

YISRAEL B'ALIYA
1. Natan Sharansky 2. Yuli-Yoel Edelstein 3. Marina Solodkin 4.
Gennady Rieger 5. Eli Kazhdan 6. Ya'akov Livschitz 7. Valentin
Feinberg 8. Hanuka Solomon 9. Maya Solodki 10. Yuri Bocharov 11.
Malko Solomon
12. Ata Farhat 13. Guma Azbarga 14. Jacques-Sudani Cohen 15. Ze'ev
Neuman 16. Ilya Ettinger 17. Efraim Gershman 18. Haim Cheshkin 19.
Michael Barkan 20. Hillel Shachnovitz

ZA'AM (Social Justice)
1. Yoram Prayanti 2. Daniel Amar 3. David Bergman 4. Ehud Shariki 5.
Khamzan El-Sayad 6. Yelcha Weinberger 7. Chen Bleich 8. Tamar
Tourgeman 9. Itamar Borokhov 10. Yitzhak Sakouri