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The Provisional State Council (Moetzet HaMedina HaZmanit) was the temporary legislature of Israel from shortly before independence until the election of the first Knesset in January 1949.
   It began life as Moetzet HaAm (lit. People's Council) on 12 April 1948 in preparation for independence just over a month later. There were 37 members representing all sides of the Jewish political spectrum, from the Revisionists to the Communists. A separate body, Minhelet HaAm was set up as the proto-cabinet, all of whose members were also members of Moetzet HaAm.
   On 14 May at 13:50, Moetzet HaAm met at the JNF building in Tel Aviv to vote on the text of the declaration of independence. Despite disagreements over issues such as borders and religion, it was passed unanimously and the meeting ended at 15:00, an hour before the declaration was to be made. The 37 members were those that signed the declaration.
   Following independence, the body was renamed the Provisional State Council. Its last meeting was held on 3 February 1949.
   The council's titular figurehead, Chaim Weizmann, was the Israel's de-facto head of state until he was elected president in February 1949.

Members

Party	Seats	Members
Mapai	10	David Ben-Gurion, Meir Argov, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Eliyahu Dobkin, Eliezer Kaplan, Avraham Katznelson, Golda Meir, David Remez, Mordechai Shatner, Moshe Sharett
General Zionists	3	Daniel Auster, Eliyahu Berligne, Peretz Bernstein
Hatzohar	3	Herzl Rosenblum, Zvi Segal, Ben-Zion Sternberg
Mapam	3	Mordechai Bentov, Zvi Luria, Aharon Zisling
Mizrahi	3	Wolf Gold, Yehuda Leib Maimon, David-Zvi Pinkas
New Aliyah Party/ Progressive Party	3	Avraham Granot, Moshe Kol, Pinchas Rosen
Agudat Israel	2	Meir David Loewenstein, Yitzhak Meir Levin
Mizrahi Workers	2	Haim-Moshe Shapira, Zerach Warhaftig
Agudat Israel Workers	1	Kalman Kahana
Labour Unity - Poale Zion	1	Berl Repetur
Poale Zion Left	1	Nahum Nir
Palestine Communist Party/Maki	1	Meir Vilner (replaced by Shmuel Mikunis following independence)
Sephardim and Oriental Communities	1	Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit
WIZO	1	Rachel Cohen-Kagan
Yemenite Association	1	Saadia Kobashi
Independent	1	Yitzhak Gruenbaum

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