Nissim Zeev (Hebrew: נסים זאב‎, born 9 September 1951) is an Israeli politician who has served as a member of Knesset for Shas since 1999.

Nissim Zeev (57) was born and resides in Jerusalem. M.K. Zeev is married and has a large family. He is a graduate of Yeshivat Porat Yoseph and was ordained to the Rabbinate. M.K. Rabbi Nissim Zeev served as a Rabbi, Shochet, Mohel and Chazzan in Israel and abroad.

M.K. Rabbi Nissim Zeev began his Torah activities in his youth when in 1968 he established Torah youth clubs named "Irgun Yeladim Lomdei Torah" (Eilat) ( Association of Children Who Study Torah) in memory of the IDF soldiers who perished in the Eilat submarine. Hundreds of students participated in this club in the afternoon studying "Taamei Hamikra" (Torah incantations), Psalms, Jewish Law and Legend.

In 1970 – he established a unique framework which acted to rehabilitate street gangs and youth and return drop outs to suitable educational institutions.

In 1971 Rabbi Nissim Zeev served as a Rabbi and Shochet in the "Ein Haeemkek" Moshav.

Rabbi Smason was born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles.

Rabbi Ze'ev Smason is the spiritual leader of Nusach Hari B'nai Zion, an orthodox congregation in St. Louis. He lives in University City with his wife, Chani, and their 9 children.

Rabbi Smason graduated from UCLA with a degree in Political Science. He then pursued rabbinical studies for 8 years in Jerusalem, receiving ordination and continuing post-graduate studies while lecturing there on Torah, Philosophy, Ethics, and Current Issues.

From 1988-97 Rabbi Smason was associate director of Aish HaTorah Center of Jewish Studies of St. Louis; from January 1998, through June 1999, he served as Associate Rabbi and Family Educator of Nusach Hari B'nai Zion before being chosen by the membership to assume the pulpit of the synagogue.

Back in August, 2007, a volunteer at Nusach Hari B'nai Zion was arrested on charges of child molestation. Rabbi Smason, received "The Child Advocate of the Week Award" from The Awareness Center for doing the right thing when he learned that there was an alleged sex offender in his synagogue. He then became one of the founders of Our Precious Children. A non-profit organization to assist Jewish survivors of sexual abused children residing in the St. Louis area.