Tawfik Toubi
| Tawfik Toubi | |
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| Date of birth | 11 May 1922 |
| Place of birth | Haifa, Mandatory Palestine |
| Date of death | 12 March 2011 (aged 88) |
| Place of death | Haifa, Israel |
| Knessets | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1965 | Maki |
| 1965–1977 | Rakah |
| 1977–1990 | Hadash |
Tawfik Toubi (Arabic: توفيق طوبي, Hebrew: תופיק טובי, 11 May 1922 – 12 March 2011) was an Israeli Arab communist politician. He was the last surviving member of the first Knesset. Tawfik Toubi was married to Olga and one of his sons, Elias Toubi, studied medicine in Leningrad.
Toubi was born in Haifa to an Arab Orthodox family in 1922, and was educated at the Mount Zion School in Jerusalem. He joined the Palestine Communist Party in 1941 and later was one of the founders of the League for National Liberation, which originally opposed partition of Palestine but later came to accept it, after the Soviet Union indicated that it would support partition. He was elected to the Knesset in Israel's first elections in 1949 as a member of Maki. He was re-elected in 1951, 1955, 1959 and 1961. In 1965 he was involved in a breakaway from Maki to form Rakah, and was voted back into the Knesset on the new party's list later in the same year. In 1976, he was elected deputy secretary general of the new Hadash party, an alliance of Rakah and several other smaller left-wing and Israeli Arab parties. He served as Hadash's secretary-general from 1989 to 1993, and was elected to the Knesset on Hadash's list in 1977, 1981, 1984 and 1988, before resigning from the Knesset in July 1990 and being replaced by Tamar Gozansky. Toubi was also publisher and editor of Arab language Communist paper Al Ittihad. He retired from the Knesset in 1990, after a 41-year tenure, and died on 12 March 2011, at age 88.
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