Yosef Sprinzak

one of the heads of the Labor Movement in Israel, first chairman of the Israeli parliament, former secretary general of the Histadrut

Yosef Sprinzak (, born 8 December 1885, died 28 January 1959) was a leading Zionist activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first Speaker of the Knesset, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959. Sprinzak was born in Moscow, Russia but following the expulsion of Jews in 1891 moved with his family to Kishinev where he was a founder of the Tze'irei Zion (Zion Youth). He began medical school at the American University in Beirut in 1908 and settled in Palestine in 1910, during the Second Aliyah (1904-1914).
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