Nahum Nir

Nahum Nir ( born March 17, 1884 in Warsaw, † July 10, 1968 in Petah Tikva ) was an Israeli politician of Polish descent and 1959 short-term President of the Parliament.

Life

College, work and political engagement

After attending school in Warsaw, he studied natural science at the University of Warsaw, the University of Zurich and the University of Saint Petersburg. Already during his studies at the University of Warsaw in 1903 he was first a member of the Zionist student association Kedima and 1905 by Poale Zion, a Marxist- Zionist Jewish workers circles.

A post-graduate studies in law at the University of Saint Petersburg and the Imperial University Yuriev he finished 1908 with the Doctor of rights. Nir, of a four-month prison sentence for his political activities was serving in 1906, was both in 1905 and in 1907 a delegate to the Zionist Congress. He was also one of the founders of the World Union of Poaleo Zion, which in The Hague were holding their first World Congress in August, 1907.

After finishing his studies, he settled as a lawyer in St. Petersburg and later in Warsaw and belonged in 1919 to the participants in the Poale Zion World Congress in Stockholm, in which the Poale Zion split because disagreements regarding Zionism, activities in Palestine and the candidate passed to the Socialist International. In 1919 he was also elected as a member of the City Council of Warsaw.

After 1925, his emigration was done ( aliyah ) to present-day Israel, he worked as a lawyer again. At the same time, he engaged in further Poale Zion movement and, after cleavage of the Left World Union of Zion Poelei its secretary. In this role he was also one of the negotiators who sought to join the Union to the Communist International. In the following years he was a member of the National Council of Left Poelei Zion, Vaad Ha'Leumi and the Political Committee of the Party Ahdut HaAvoda - Poelei Zion. In addition, he was a member of the Provisional Council of State.

Political career in the State of Israel

After the founding of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 Nahum Nir was one of the first signatories of the 37 Israeli Declaration of Independence, he was elected on 14 February 1949 as a candidate of the Mapam (United Workers Party) for a member of the Knesset, but this mandate already lost he was on 20 August 1951. on October 12, 1955 once again a member of the Knesset and represented now until November 22, 1965, the interests of the Ahdut Haavoda.

During his membership in the Knesset, he was first Vice President of the Parliament from 1949 to 1951 and Chairman of the Committee on Constitution, Law and Justice. The Office of the Committee Chairman, he had again held from 1955 to 1959.

After a brief work as President of the Parliament of 2 March to 3 November 1959, he was then up again November 1965 Deputy President of the Parliament. At the same time he was 1959-1965 and Chairman of the Committee on the Public Service, as well as 1961-1965 Chairman of the Joint Committee on the growth of juvenile delinquency. Nahum Nir died on 10 July 1968 Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.

Publications

• Perkai Haim - Be'Maagal Ha'Dor ve Ha'Tnuah, 1884-1918, Memoirs, 1958