Tawfik Toubi

Tawfik Toubi
Faction represented in the Knesset
1949–1965Maki
1965–1977Rakah
1977–1990Hadash
Personal details
Born11 May 1922
Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
Died12 March 2011(2011-03-12) (aged 88)
Haifa, Israel
Tawfik Toubi in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament), here seen on the left
Tawfik Toubi in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament)

Tawfik Toubi (Arabic: توفيق طوبي, Hebrew: תופיק טובי‎, 11 May 1922 – 12 March 2011) was a Mandatory Palestine-born 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]

Land Day 1988, speech of Tawfik Toubi, Deputy-Secretary of the Hadash party, in the Public Rally Marking Land Day in Sakhneen.
  1. ^ http://allergists4israel.org/newsletters/2010-afi-12.pdf[permanent dead link‍]