Nahum Nir | |
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Speaker of the Knesset | |
In office 1959 | |
Faction represented in the Knesset | |
1949–1951 | Mapam |
1955–1965 | Ahdut HaAvoda |
Personal details | |
Born | 17 March 1884 Warsaw, Russian Empire |
Died | 10 July 1968 Tel Aviv, Israel | (aged 84)
Nahum Nir-Rafalkes (Hebrew: נחום ניר, 17 March 1884 – 10 July 1968) was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence. He was the only Speaker of the Knesset not to have been a member of the ruling party until Benny Gantz in 2020.