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The '''Knesset''' is the legislature or [[parliament]] of the [[State of Israel|Israel]]; the [[Hebrew]] tern ''knesset'' means 'assembly'. The first knesset was elected on 20 Jaqnuary 1949 and first met on 14 February the same year. It is a unicameral (single chamber) body and has 120 elected members.