Tawfik Toubi
Tawfik Toubi | |
|---|---|
Rakah | |
| 1977–1990 | Hadash |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 May 1922 Haifa, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | 12 March 2011 (aged 88) Haifa, Israel |
Tawfik Toubi (
Israeli Arab communist politician. He was the last surviving member of the first Knesset. Tawfik Toubi was married to Olga Touma and one of his sons, Elias Toubi, studied medicine in Leningrad. He is also the second longest-serving Knesset member of all time, over 41 years of office, all consecutive. [1]
Biography
Toubi was born in
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,[3] 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.[4] He retired from the Knesset in 1990, after a 41-year tenure, and died on 12 March 2011, at age 88.[5]
Legacy
Toubi is remembered as one of the two MKs (the other being
anti-Zionist (such as Azmi Bishara).[8]
In 1949, Israeli poet Nathan Alterman wrote:
Who is Tawfik Tubi? A Knesset member,
a Communist, an Arab who sits
in that House by full right...
That's democracy, not always easy,
but if we don't understand this part,
we haven't gotten anything at all.[9]
Toubi raised the issue of the
1967 war, he requested from Moshe Dayan that the inhabitants of Yalo be allowed to return to their homes, but it too was denied.[11]
In 2012, the discourses and articles of Tawfik Toubi were published in Israel by his wife Olga and his son Elias. Tawfik Toubi is accepted, honored and rewarded by the Israeli establishment.[12]
In 2011, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said:
Toubi was a valued and impressive parliamentarian that left his mark on the Israeli parliament. He was a member of a confronting movement but nevertheless insisted on respecting the rules of the game and knew how to apply them to himself in practice.
[13]
Distinctions
| Ribbon bar | Country | Honour |
|---|---|---|
 |
Soviet Union | Order of Friendship of Peoples |
References
- ^ http://allergists4israel.org/newsletters/2010-afi-12.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Knesset Members – Tawfik Toubi". Retrieved 26 September 2012.
- ^ "Last member of Israel's first Knesset dies at 89". Ha'aretz. 13 March 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ^ {{Cite web His only son, Elias Toby, is a professor of medicine, director of the Department of Immunology and Clinical Allergy at Bnei Zion Medical Center and director of the Italian Hospital in Haifa. | last = Daves | first = Bryan | title = Tawfiq Tubi: Information and Much More from Answers.com | work = Answers.com | accessdate = 5 January 2008 | url = http://www.answers.com/topic/tawfiq-tubi }}
- ^ Obituary of Tawfik Toubi Archived 17 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine The Independent, 29 March 2011
- ^ Gozansky, Tamar (30 October 2006). "From massacre to Lieberman". Ynet. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
- ^ Samet, Gideon. "The battle for a 'state of all its citizens'". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 19 November 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
- ^ Hoffman, Gil (12 April 2007). "The rise of 'Bish-Arabism'". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 5 January 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The Head Heeb: The Arab Representatives: First Knesset". Retrieved 5 January 2008.
- ^ Kacowicz and Lutomski, 2007, p. 139.
- ^ Karmi, 1999, p. 87.
- ^ "העמוד לא נמצא | המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית".
- ^ "Last Member of Israel's First Knesset Dies at 89". Haaretz.
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-86372-244-X.
- Kacowicz, Arie Marcelo; Lutomski, Pawel (2007). Population Resettlement in International Conflicts: A Comparative Study. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739116074.
External links
- Tawfik Toubi on the Knesset website
- Tawfik Toubi's biography Knesset website (in English)
- "Tawfiq Touby on The Kafr Qasem Massacre of 1956". Retrieved 5 January 2008.[permanent dead link]
- Ben-Gurion and Tewfik Toubi Finally Meet (October 28, 1966)
