READER ADS: Tourist guide requires work | PUT YOUR AD HERE - FREE Click to open Encyclopaedia of the Orient on its front page Knesset From Hebrew, meaning 'assembly'. The parliament of Israel, located to Jerusalem. The Knesset has 120 seats, and forms one chamber. The deputies to Knesset are elected by universal suffrage, for periods of 4 years. There is a lower limit for parties to be ...