death_place death_date birth_place party otherroles otherrolesyears partyyears birth_date image article_title
tel aviv , israel 10 july 1968 warsaw , russian empire mapam ahdut haavoda speaker of the knesset 1959 1949 -- 1951 1955 -- 1965 17 march 1884 nahum nir-refalx . jpg nahum nir

nahum nir

nahum nir-rafalkes -lrb- , 17 march 1884 -- 10 july 1968 -rrb- was a zionist activist , israeli politician and one of the signatories of the israeli declaration of independence .
he is the only speaker of the knesset not to have been a member of the ruling party .
