Itzhak Harari · CC BY-SA 4.0

Avraham Burg was the first Speaker of the Knesset born in Israel after its 1948 founding, having earlier chaired the Jewish Agency and later served as the country's interim president. A Labor Party figure for most of his political career, he broke from mainstream Israeli politics in the 2000s, describing himself as post-Zionist and arguing that Israel should replace what he called Herzlian Zionism's founding scaffolding with a civic nationalism modeled on France, including openness to negotiating with Hamas.