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There are 38 members of the 18th Knesset who are foreign born. Because Israel has a high ratio of immigrants (olim), a significant number of the members of Knesset were not born in Israel. Eighteen were born in the Soviet Union, eight were born in Morocco, two each were born in Germany and Iraq, and one each were born in Algeria, Belgium, Ethiopia, Iran, Romania, Syria, Tunisia, and United Kingdom.

Knesset Members

Name	Country	Party
Haim Amsalem	Algeria	Whole Nation
Yossi Peled	Belgium	Likud
Shlomo Molla	Ethiopia	Kadima
Haim Katz	Germany	Likud
Yaakov Litzman	Germany	United Torah Judaism
Shaul Mofaz	Iran	Kadima
Aryeh Bibi	Iraq	Kadima
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer	Iraq	Labor Party
Meir Sheetrit	Morocco	Kadima
Yaakov Edri	Morocco	Kadima
Eli Aflalo	Morocco	Kadima
Zion Pinyan	Morocco	Likud
Ya'akov Margi	Morocco	Shas
David Azulai	Morocco	Shas
Amir Peretz	Morocco	Labor Party
Daniel Ben-Simon	Morocco	Labor Party
Ilan Gilon	Romania	New Movement – Meretz
Marina Solodkin	Soviet Union	Kadima
Robert Tiviaev	Soviet Union	Kadima
Orit Zuaretz	Soviet Union	Kadima
Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich	Soviet Union	Kadima
Nino Abesadze	Soviet Union	Kadima
Yuli-Yoel Edelstein	Soviet Union	Likud
Ze'ev Elkin	Soviet Union	Likud
Avigdor Liberman	Soviet Union	Yisrael Beiteinu
Stas Misezhnikov	Soviet Union	Yisrael Beiteinu
Sofa Landver	Soviet Union	Yisrael Beiteinu
Anastasia Michaeli	Soviet Union	Yisrael Beiteinu
Faina Kirschenbaum	Soviet Union	Yisrael Beiteinu
Robert Ilatov	Soviet Union	Yisrael Beiteinu
Lia Shemtov	Soviet Union	Yisrael Beiteinu
Alex Miller	Soviet Union	Yisrael Beiteinu
Amnon Cohen	Soviet Union	Shas
Avraham Michaeli	Soviet Union	Shas
Zahava Gal-On	Soviet Union	New Movement – Meretz
Yisrael Hasson	Syria	Kadima
Silvan Shalom	Tunisia	Likud
Yohanan Plesner	United Kingdom	Kadima

See also

• List of members of the eighteenth Knesset

External links

• Current Knesset Members of the Eighteenth Knesset Knesset website