Final Results for 15th Knesset
PARTY NAME Current Leader Knesset Seats Description
Members of Coalition:
One Israel Ehud Barak 26 Joint list of socialist Labor, Gesher and
modern-Orthodox Meimad.
Shas Rabbi Ovadia Yosef 17 Sephardi ultra-Orthodox.
Meretz Yossi Sarid 10 Leftist.
Center Party Yitzhak Mordechai 6 Middle of road.
Yisrael B'Aliyah Natan Sharansky 6 Russian immigrants.
National Religious Party Yitzhak Levy 5 Religious Zionists.
United Torah Judaism Meir Porush 5 Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox.
Outside Coalition: (as of 30 June, 1999)
Likud Ariel Sharon 19 Conservative Zionist.
Shinui Tommy Lapid 6 Anti-haredi.
United Arab List Abdul Malik 5 Israeli Arab workers.
National Union Rehavam Ze'evi 4 Joint list of 3 right-wing Zionist parties.
Yisrael Beiteinu Avigdor Lieberman 4 Likud spin-off for Russian immigrants.
Hadash Mohammed Barakei 3 Israeli Arab communists.
Balad Azmi Bishara 2 Alliance of Israeli Arab parties.
Am Ehad Amir Peretz 2 Union workers.