Moked

{{Infobox political party

|name = Moked

|colorcode = #DC241F

|native_name = {{Script/Hebrew|מוקד}}

|lang4_name =

|logo = Moked.svg

|leader = Shmuel Mikunis
Meir Pa'il

|founded = 1973

|dissolved = 1977

|merger = Maki and the {{nowrap|Blue-Red Movement}}

|merged = Hadash and the {{nowrap|Left Camp of Israel}}

|ideology = Socialism

|position = Left-wing

|seats1_title = Most MKs

|seats1 = 1 (1973-1977)

|seats2_title = {{nowrap|Fewest MKs}}

|seats2 = 1 (1973-1977)

|symbol = {{Script/Hebrew|קנ}}

|country = Israel

}}

Moked ({{langx|he|מוקד||Focus}}) was a left-wing political party in Israel.

Background

Moked came into existence on 25 July 1973 during the seventh Knesset, when the Maki parliamentary group (which had one seat, held by Shmuel Mikunis) was renamed Moked,{{cite web|url=https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/mk/apps/faction/general/split-merge|title=Splits and mergers within parliamentary groups in the Knesset|website=Knesset}} following its merger with the extraparliamentary Blue-Red Movement.

The new party ran in the 1973 elections, receiving 1.4% of the vote and winning one seat,{{cite web|url=https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/elections/1973/|title=About the 1973 Elections|website=Israel Democracy Institute}} which was taken by Meir Pa'il, who was top of the party list. Mikunis (in second place), Yair Tzaban (fourth), Avishai Margalit (fifteenth) and Binyamin Temkin (twenty-third){{cite web|url=https://en.idi.org.il/media/6618/%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%AA-8-%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%93.pdf|title=Moked list|website=Israel Democracy Institute}} all failed to be elected. In October 1975 the party changed its name to Moked - for Peace and Social Compensation.

Prior to the 1977 elections the party split in two. Some of the Maki faction merged into Hadash alongside Rakah, which had split from it in 1965, whilst the non-Communist members joined the Left Camp of Israel. The new party won two seats, with Pa'il taking one in rotation.

References

External links

[https://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPage_eng.asp?PG=64 Moked] Knesset website
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110726194920/http://israeli-left-archive.org/cgi-bin/library?e=d-01000-00---off-0znews--00-1----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-about---00-3-1-00-0-0-11-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=znews&cl=CL1.3.2 Moked documents at the Israeli Left Archive]

Category:Political parties established in 1973

Category:Political parties disestablished in 1977

Category:Defunct political parties in Israel

Category:Far-left politics in Israel

Category:Socialist parties in Israel

Category:Far-left political parties

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Category:1977 disestablishments in Israel

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