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Israeli Communist Party

Maki
המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית
الحزب الشيوعي الاسرائيلي
Leader Collective leadership
(Central Committee)
Meir Vilner
Tawfik Toubi
Founded 1 September 1965 (1965-09-01) (as Rakah)
Headquarters Nazareth, Tel Aviv
Ideology Communism
Alter-globalization
Marxism–Leninism
Political position Far-Left
National affiliation Hadash
International affiliation International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Colours Red
Ballot letters ו
Knesset
4 / 120
Election symbol
ו
Website
www.maki.org.il

The Israeli Communist Party (Hebrew: המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית‎‎ HaMiflega HaKomunistit HaYisra'elit, Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي الاسرائيلي‎‎ Al-Ḥizb ash-Shuyū'ī al-'Isrā'īlī), commonly referred to by its Hebrew acronym Maki (Hebrew: מק"י‎‎), is a communist political party in Israel and forms part of the political alliance known as Hadash. It was originally known as Rakah (Hebrew: רק"ח‎‎), an acronym for Reshima Komunistit Hadasha (Hebrew: רשימה קומוניסטית חדשה‎‎, lit. New Communist List), and is not the same party as the original Maki, from which it broke away in the 1960s.

Rakah was formed on 1 September 1965 due to internal disagreements in Maki. Maki, the original Israeli Communist Party, saw a split between a largely Jewish faction led by Moshe Sneh, which recognized Israel's right to exist and was critical of the Soviet Union's increasingly anti-Zionist stance, and a largely Arab faction, which was increasingly anti-Zionist. As a result, the pro-Palestinian faction (including Emile Habibi, Tawfik Toubi and Meir Vilner) left Maki to form a new party, Rakah, which the Soviet Union recognised as the "official" Communist Party. It was reported in the Soviet media that the Mikunis-Sneh group defected to the bourgeois-nationalist camp.


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