Nahum Nir

Nahum Nir
Nir in 1956
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(1968-07-10) (aged 84) Tel Aviv, Israel

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.