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The Speaker of the Knesset is the presiding officer in the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
's parliament
Parliament

A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom....
 and also fills the role of the President
President of Israel

The President of the State of Israel is the head of state of Israel. The position is largely a ceremonial Figurehead role, with executive real power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister of Israel....
 when he or she is incapacitated. Michael Eitan
Michael Eitan

Michael Eitan is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Likud. He served as Science, Culture and Sport Minister of Israel between July 1997 and July 1998....
 currently holds the post on a temporary basis following the 2009 elections
Israeli legislative election, 2009

Elections for the 18th Knesset were held in Israel on 10 February 2009. These elections became necessary due to the resignation of Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert as leader of the Kadima party, and the failure of his successor, Tzipi Livni, to form a coalition government....
 until a permanent replacement for Dalia Itzik
Dalia Itzik

Dalia Itzik , born 20 October 1952, is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. She has previously served in several minsterial positions, and on 4 May 2006 became the first female speaker of the Knesset on 4 May 2006, and has since served as President of Israel in an interim capacity on two occasions....
 is appointed. Itzik was the first woman to hold the post.

To date, Ahdut HaAvoda
Ahdut HaAvoda

Ahdut HaAvoda was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party....
's Nahum Nir
Nahum Nir

Dr Nahum Nir was a Zionism activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence . He is the only List of Knesset speakers to date not to have been a member of the ruling party....
 is the only Speaker not to have come from the ruling party, though in two cases (Avraham Burg
Avraham Burg

Avraham "Avrum" Burg was an Israeli Knesset member, former Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and former List of Knesset speakers....
 and Reuven Rivlin
Reuven Rivlin

Reuven Rivlin is an Israeli lawyer, politician, member of the Knesset for Likud. A former Speaker of the Knesset, in 2007 he ran in the Israeli presidential election, 2007 as the Likud candidate....
) the party of the speaker (One Israel
One Israel

One Israel was an alliance of the Labor Party , Meimad and Gesher created to run for the Israeli legislative election, 1999....
 and Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
 respectively) lost power during their term.








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The Speaker of the Knesset is the presiding officer in the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
's parliament
Parliament

A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom....
 and also fills the role of the President
President of Israel

The President of the State of Israel is the head of state of Israel. The position is largely a ceremonial Figurehead role, with executive real power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister of Israel....
 when he or she is incapacitated. Michael Eitan
Michael Eitan

Michael Eitan is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Likud. He served as Science, Culture and Sport Minister of Israel between July 1997 and July 1998....
 currently holds the post on a temporary basis following the 2009 elections
Israeli legislative election, 2009

Elections for the 18th Knesset were held in Israel on 10 February 2009. These elections became necessary due to the resignation of Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert as leader of the Kadima party, and the failure of his successor, Tzipi Livni, to form a coalition government....
 until a permanent replacement for Dalia Itzik
Dalia Itzik

Dalia Itzik , born 20 October 1952, is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. She has previously served in several minsterial positions, and on 4 May 2006 became the first female speaker of the Knesset on 4 May 2006, and has since served as President of Israel in an interim capacity on two occasions....
 is appointed. Itzik was the first woman to hold the post.

To date, Ahdut HaAvoda
Ahdut HaAvoda

Ahdut HaAvoda was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party....
's Nahum Nir
Nahum Nir

Dr Nahum Nir was a Zionism activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence . He is the only List of Knesset speakers to date not to have been a member of the ruling party....
 is the only Speaker not to have come from the ruling party, though in two cases (Avraham Burg
Avraham Burg

Avraham "Avrum" Burg was an Israeli Knesset member, former Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and former List of Knesset speakers....
 and Reuven Rivlin
Reuven Rivlin

Reuven Rivlin is an Israeli lawyer, politician, member of the Knesset for Likud. A former Speaker of the Knesset, in 2007 he ran in the Israeli presidential election, 2007 as the Likud candidate....
) the party of the speaker (One Israel
One Israel

One Israel was an alliance of the Labor Party , Meimad and Gesher created to run for the Israeli legislative election, 1999....
 and Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
 respectively) lost power during their term.

Past and present Knesset speakers

# Speaker Party Years Knesset
1 Yosef Sprinzak
Yosef Sprinzak

Yosef Sprinzak was a leading Zionism activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first List of Knesset speakers, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959....
 		 Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
 		 1949-59 1st
Israeli legislative election, 1949

Elections in Israel for the Constituent Assembly were held in newly-independent Israel on 25 January, 1949. Voter turnout was 85.8%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February, 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset ....
, 2nd
Israeli legislative election, 1951

Elections in Israel for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July, 1951. Voter turnout was 74.3%....
, 3rd
Israeli legislative election, 1955

File:Elect105Ashdod55.jpgElections in Israel for the third Knesset were held in Israel on 26 July, 1955. Voter turnout was 80.7%....
2 Nahum Nir
Nahum Nir

Dr Nahum Nir was a Zionism activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence . He is the only List of Knesset speakers to date not to have been a member of the ruling party....
 		 Ahdut HaAvoda
Ahdut HaAvoda

Ahdut HaAvoda was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli Labor Party....
 		 1959 3rd
Israeli legislative election, 1955

File:Elect105Ashdod55.jpgElections in Israel for the third Knesset were held in Israel on 26 July, 1955. Voter turnout was 80.7%....
3 Kadish Luz
Kadish Luz

Kadish Luz was an Israeli politician who served as Agriculture Minister of Israel between 1955 and 1959 and Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969....
 		 Mapai
Mapai

Mapai was a Left-wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968....
, Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
 		 1959-69 4th
Israeli legislative election, 1959

Elections in Israel for the fourth Knesset were held in Israel on 3 November, 1959. Voter turnout was 79.5%....
, 5th
Israeli legislative election, 1961

Elections in Israel for the fifth Knesset were held in Israel on 15 August 1961. Voter turnout was 79.0%....
, 6th
Israeli legislative election, 1965

Elections in Israel for the sixth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November, 1965. Voter turnout was 80.4%....
4 Reuven Barkat Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
 		 1969-72 7th
Israeli legislative election, 1969

Elections in Israel for the seventh Knesset were held in Israel on 28 October, 1969. Voter turnout was 77.8%....
5 Yisrael Yeshayahu
Yisrael Yeshayahu

Yisrael Yeshayahu Sharabi was a Yemen-born Israeli politician, Cabinet of Israel and the fifth List of Knesset speakers.Born in Sa'dah, Yemen, Yeshayahu was a member of the Dor Daim movement, before making aliyah in 1929....
 		 Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
 		 1972-77 7th
Israeli legislative election, 1969

Elections in Israel for the seventh Knesset were held in Israel on 28 October, 1969. Voter turnout was 77.8%....
, 8th
Israeli legislative election, 1973

The Elections in Israel for the eighth Knesset were held on 31 December 1973. Voter turnout was 76.9%...
6 Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzhak Shamir

was Prime Minister of Israel of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992....
 		 Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
 		 1977-80 9th
Israeli legislative election, 1977

The Elections in Israel for the ninth Knesset were held on 17 May 1977. The dramatic shift in Israeli politics caused by the outcome led to it becoming known as "the revolution" , a phrase coined by TV anchor Haim Yavin when he announced the election results live on television with the words "Ladies and gentlemen - revolution!" ....
7 Yitzhak Berman
Yitzhak Berman

Yitzhak Berman is a former Israeli politician who served as National Infrastructure Minister of Israel from August 1981 until September 1982. He was also Speaker of the Knesset from 1977 until 1981....
 		 Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
 		 1980-81 9th
Israeli legislative election, 1977

The Elections in Israel for the ninth Knesset were held on 17 May 1977. The dramatic shift in Israeli politics caused by the outcome led to it becoming known as "the revolution" , a phrase coined by TV anchor Haim Yavin when he announced the election results live on television with the words "Ladies and gentlemen - revolution!" ....
8 Menachem Savidor Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
 		 1981-84 10th
Israeli legislative election, 1981

Elections in Israel for the tenth Knesset were held in Israel on 30 June 1981. Despite last minute polls suggesting a victory for Shimon Peres's Alignment , Menachem Begin's Likud won by just one seat.Voter turnout was 77.8%....
9 Shlomo Hillel
Shlomo Hillel

Shlomo Hillel is an Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician who served as Speaker of the Knesset, Internal Security Minister of Israel and Interior Minister of Israel....
 		 Alignment
Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established as the Labor Alignment in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party....
 		 1984-88 11th
Israeli legislative election, 1984

Elections in Israel for the eleventh Knesset were held in Israel on 23 July, 1984. Voter turnout was 78.1%....
10 Dov Shilansky
Dov Shilansky

Dov Shilansky is a former Israeli politician and List of Knesset speakers 1988 - 1992....
 		 Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
 		 1988-92 12th
Israeli legislative election, 1988

Elections in Israel for the twelfth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November, 1988. Voter turnout was 78.9%....
11 Shevah Weiss
Shevah Weiss

Shevah Weiss is an Israeli political science and former politician.Weiss was born on July 5, 1935 in Boryslav, Poland in Polish Jewish family to Gienia and Meir Wolf Weiss....
 		 Labour 1992-96 13th
Israeli legislative election, 1992

Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June, 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party , though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross the Election threshold and thus effectively wasting votes for the right....
12 Dan Tichon
Dan Tichon

Dan Tichon is a former Israeli politician and List of Knesset speakers 1996 - 1999....
 		 Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
 		 1996-99 14th
Israeli legislative election, 1996

Elections for the fourteenth Knesset were held in Israel alongside the first ever Israeli prime ministerial election, 1996 on 29 May, 1996. Voter turnout was 79.3%....
13 Avraham Burg
Avraham Burg

Avraham "Avrum" Burg was an Israeli Knesset member, former Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and former List of Knesset speakers....
 		 One Israel
One Israel

One Israel was an alliance of the Labor Party , Meimad and Gesher created to run for the Israeli legislative election, 1999....
 		 1999-2003 15th
14 Reuven Rivlin
Reuven Rivlin

Reuven Rivlin is an Israeli lawyer, politician, member of the Knesset for Likud. A former Speaker of the Knesset, in 2007 he ran in the Israeli presidential election, 2007 as the Likud candidate....
 		 Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
 		 2003-06 16th
15 Dalia Itzik
Dalia Itzik

Dalia Itzik , born 20 October 1952, is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. She has previously served in several minsterial positions, and on 4 May 2006 became the first female speaker of the Knesset on 4 May 2006, and has since served as President of Israel in an interim capacity on two occasions....
 		 Kadima
Kadima

Kadima is a centrist List of political parties in Israel in Israel founded by like-minded Likud and Israeli Labor Party politicians. It became the largest party in the Knesset after the Israeli legislative election, 2006, winning 29 of the 120 seats....
 		 2006-present 17th


External links

  • Knesset website