Monday, March 14, 2011

The Last Surviving Member of the First Knesset

... Was Tawfik Toubi, who began his political life as a member of the Palestinian Communist Party, and served for four decades as a communist Knesset member. He passed away over the weekend, the last of his generation.
Posted by at
Labels:

2 comments:

Y. Ben-David said...

In another irony, the last signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence to die was also an anti-Zionist Communist, Meir Vilner. Is there something symbolic here?

March 14, 2011 at 10:44 AM
NormanF said...

There were never that many Jewish Communists in Israel. And the most influential Marxists in the country are post Zionist modernists instead of Stalinists - Israel's Communist Party never got around to repudiating the Soviet dictator.

Some difference!

March 14, 2011 at 12:36 PM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)