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Last Member of Israel's First Knesset Dies at 89

Tawfik Toubi was a founding member of the Israeli Communist Party and was a Knesset member from 1949-1990.

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Former Knesset member Tawfik Toubi died Saturday, aged 89. Toubi, a Haifa resident, was the last remaining living member of the first Knesset. On Sunday, Toubi will be laid to rest in Haifa's Kfar Samir (Sde Yehoshua) cemetery.

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