Israeli Communist Party
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Maki
המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית الحزب الشيوعي الاسرائيلي |
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| Leader | Collective leadership (Central Committee) Meir Vilner Tawfik Toubi |
| Founded | 1 September 1965 (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 |
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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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