Maki (historical political party)
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Maki
המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית |
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| Leader |
Shmuel Mikunis Moshe Sneh |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Dissolved | 25 July 1973 |
| Merger of |
Hebrew Communists, the National Liberation League and the Palestine Communist Party |
| Merged into | Moked |
| Newspaper | Al-Ittihad, Kol HaAm, Walka |
| Ideology | Communism |
| Political position | Far-Left |
| Most MKs | 7 (1954–1955) |
| Fewest MKs | 1 (1965–1973) |
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Maki (Hebrew: מק"י, an acronym for HaMiflega HaKomunistit HaYisraelit (Hebrew: המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית), lit. The Israeli Communist Party) was a communist political party in Israel. It is not the same party as the modern day Maki, which split from it during the 1960s and later assumed its name.
Maki was a descendant of the Palestine Communist Party (PCP), which changed its name to MAKEI (the Communist Party of Eretz Yisrael) after endorsing partition in 1947, and then to Maki. Members of the National Liberation League, an Arab party that had split off from the PCP in 1944, rejoined Maki in October 1948, giving the party both Jewish and Israeli Arab members, while the Hebrew Communists also joined the party. It also took over publication of two communist newspapers, Kol HaAm (Hebrew) and Al-Ittihad (Arabic). The party was not Zionist, but recognized Israel, though it denied the link between the state and the Jewish diaspora and asserted the right of Palestinians to form a state in accordance with the United Nations resolution on partition.
In the first Knesset elections in 1949 the party won 3.5% of the vote and four seats, which were taken by Shmuel Mikunis, Eliezer Preminger, Tawfik Toubi and Meir Vilner. During the session, Preminger left the party and re-established the Hebrew Communists before joining Mapam.
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