Name Zvi Nir 1996 Labor Party | Knessets 13 Year of aliyah 1948 | |
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Date of birth (1946-08-14) 14 August 1946 (age 69) | ||
Place of birth Cluj-Napoca, Romania | ||
Zvi Nir (Hebrew: צבי ניר, born 14 August 1946) is an Israeli lawyer and politician, who briefly served as a member of the Knesset in 1996.
Biography
Born in Cluj-Napoca in Romania, Nir immigrated to Israel in 1948, where he studied at Ohel Shem high school in Ramat Gan. He went on to study law at Tel Aviv University.
Nir was originally a member of the Independent Liberals, and was fourth on the party's list for the 1977 Knesset elections, but failed to win a seat as the party received just one mandate. He later joined Shinui, and was third on the party's list for the 1988 elections, in which it won two seats.
Prior to the 1992 elections he joined the Labor Party, and although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 21 May 1996 as a replacement for Ora Namir, who had resigned to take up the post of ambassador to China and Mongolia. However, he lost his seat in the June elections, and did not even have time to take his oath of allegiance. He was later elected to Ramat Gan city council as an independent, and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2003. He was re-elected to the city council in 2008.
He is currently also a partner in the Cohen-Segal, Sherman and Nir law firm.