1.   Orchestra and band instrument collections have been sold, and art-teacher positions have been left vacant after retirements.

2.   The seat became vacant after the death of Joseph Galiber in November.

3.   Bibi suggested a Cabinet shake-up with Hanegbi filling the science ministry post left vacant after Benny Begin, a hawk in the Likud Party, resigned earlier this year.

4.   One other parliament seat remains vacant after ethnic Albanian lawmaker Hisni Shaqiri left to join the rebels.

5.   One other parliament seat remains vacant after deputy Hisni Shaqiri left to join the rebels.

6.   That post had been left vacant after the departure of Hwang, the highest-ranking North Korean defector.

7.   The Sudanese ambassador to the United States left for Washington on Friday, filling a post left vacant after the previous nominee was rejected.

8.   Two seats are vacant after the recent deaths of government lawmakers.

9.   The seat fell vacant after the death of Energy Minister John Kyalo earlier this year.

10.   The post became vacant after speaker G.M.C. Balayogi died in a helicopter crash in March.