The Communist Party of Israel (known as Maki, an acronym for Miflaga Komunistit Yisraelit) was formed in 1948 by the remnant of the Communist Party of Palestine within the borders of the new state of Israel. 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. The party was part of the World Communist Movement and was an uncritical supporter of the Soviet Union. Maki had four seats in the first Knesset and elected between three and six seats to each subsequent Knesset until 1965. Large Flag of Israel File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... This article discusses the history of the modern State of Israel, from its inception in 1948 to the present. ... 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After the Prague Trials of 1953 caused the pro-Soviet Labour Zionist party Mapam to break with the Soviet Union a number of Mapam members, including Moshe Sneh joined Maki with Sneh becoming a leading member. The Prague Trials were a series of Stalinist and largely anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Labor Zionism (or Labour Zionism) is the traditional left-wing of the Zionist ideology. ... Mapam - United Workers Party (in Hebrew: מפם - מפלגת פועלים מאוחדת Mifleget Poalim Meuhedet) was initially a Marxist-Zionist party. ...

In 1965 Maki split between a largely Jewish group led by Sneh which recognized Israel's right to existence and were critical of the Soviet Union's increasingly anti-Israel stance and a largely Israeli Arab group which was increasingly anti-Zionist. Sneh's faction retained the name Maki while the pro-Palestinian faction left and formed the New Communist List (or Rakah ) which became the party recognized by the Soviet Union as the "official" Communist Party. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Israeli Arabs, or 1948 Palestinians, are those Arabs who remained inside the borders of what would become Israel after 1948, when most Arabs fled the country in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War (see also Nakba). They make up roughly 20% of Israels population. ... Anti-Zionism is a term that has been used to describe several very different political and religious points of view, both historically and in current debates. ...

The new Maki dwindled winning only a single seat in the Knesset in 1965 and 1969 and was unable to win support among Jewish voters despite having positions such as supporting the Six Day War as a legitimate act of self-defence by Israel. Maki joined the pro-peace party, Moked in 1973 (winning a single seat belonging to Meir Pail) and in 1977 joined others on the Jewish left to form The Shelli camp (Peace for Israel and Equality for Israel) which lost both its seats in 1981 and merged into Ratz in a one-to-three ratio prior to the 1984 elections. Rakah remained a presence in the Knesset and was increasingly seen as an "Arab party" though it was led until the late 1980s by Meir Vilner who was Jewish. In 1977, the party formed an electoral coalition with other anti-Zionists to form Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality). In 1989, Rakah officially changed its name to Maki and remains the leading force in Hadash, which regularly wins between three and six seats in knesset elections. The Knesset (כנסת, Hebrew for assembly) is the Parliament of Israel, located on a hilltop in the west of Jerusalem. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... The 1967 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Six-Day War or June War, was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ratz (Hebrew: רץ) was a left wing Israeli political party formed in 1973 by former Labour Knesset member Shulamit Aloni. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Hadash (חדש) is a left wing, largely Arab, anti-Zionist popular front group in Israel made up of the Communist Party of Israel and other left-leaning political groups. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Prominent past and present members of the Communist Party of Israel include Emil Habibi, Shmuel Mikunis, Toubi Tewfik and Esther Vilenska.

See also

• Communist party