List of Knesset speakers

The Speaker of the Knesset (Hebrew: יושב ראש הכנסת‎, Yoshev Rosh HaKnesset, lit. Chairman of the Knesset) is the presiding officer in the Knesset, the unicameral legislature of Israel. The Speaker also fills the role of the President of Israel when the President is incapacitated. The current speaker is Yuli-Yoel Edelstein.

To date, Ahdut HaAvoda's Nahum Nir is the only Speaker not to have come from the ruling party, though in two cases (Avraham Burg and Reuven Rivlin) the party of the speaker (One Israel and Likud respectively) lost power during their term.

Knesset Speakers (1949–present)

Colour key
	Mapai/Ahdut HaAvoda/ Alignment/Labor/One Israel		Likud		Kadima

A total of sixteen people have served as Speaker of the Knesset, one of whom, Reuven Rivlin, have served two non-consecutive terms.

Speaker						Knesset
No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office		Political Party
1		Yosef Sprinzak יוסף שפרינצק (1885–1959)	1949	1959	Mapai	1, 2, 3
2		Nahum Nir נחום ניר (1884–1968)	1959	1959	Ahdut HaAvoda	3
3		Kadish Luz קדיש לוז (1895–1972)	1959	1969	Mapai, Alignment	4, 5, 6
4	75px	Reuven Barkat ראובן ברקת (1906–1972)	1969	1972	Alignment	7
5		Yisrael Yeshayahu ישראל ישעיהו שרעבי (1908–1979)	1972	1977	Alignment	7, 8
6		Yitzhak Shamir יצחק שמיר (1915–2012)	1977	1980	Likud	9
7		Yitzhak Berman יצחק ברמן (1913–2013)	1980	1981	Likud	9
8		Menachem Savidor מנחם סבידור (1917–1988)	1981	1984	Likud	10
9		Shlomo Hillel שלמה הלל (1923–)	1984	1988	Alignment	11
10		Dov Shilansky דב שילנסקי (1924–2010)	1988	1992	Likud	12
11		Shevah Weiss שבח וייס (1935–)	1992	1996	Labor	13
12		Dan Tichon דן תיכון (1937–)	1996	1999	Likud	14
13		Avraham Burg אברהם בורג (1955–)	1999	2003	One Israel, Labor	15
14		Reuven Rivlin ראובן ריבלין (1939–)	2003	2006	Likud	16
15		Dalia Itzik דליה איציק (1952–)	2006	2009	Kadima	17
(14)		Reuven Rivlin ראובן ריבלין (1939–)	2009	2013	Likud	18
16		Yuli-Yoel Edelstein יולי-יואל אדלשטיין (1958–)	2013		Likud	19, 20

External links

• Knesset Speakers since the first Knesset Knesset website