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Hadash

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The name adopted by the New Communist List (Rakach) toward the end of the Eighth Knesset, after the party outside the Knesset was joined by part of the Black Panthers and other left-wing non-communist groups. Hadash, which is a Jewish and Arab party, ran for the Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth and Fifteenth Knessets under this name. In elections for the Eleventh, Twelfth, Fourteenth and Sixteenth Knessets, Hadash ran under joint names together with other parties. From its inception Hadash advocated a complete Israeli withdrawal from the territories occpied in 1967, recognition of the PLO and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, in addition to full equality for Israel’s Arab citizens.

The Knessets in Which it Served:

	8 21/01/1974 13/06/1977	Knesset Members: Avraham Levenbraun Tawfik Toubi Meir Vilner Tawfik Zayyad



	9 13/06/1977 20/07/1981	Knesset Members: Charlie Bitton Avraham Levenbraun Hanna Mwais Tawfik Toubi Meir Vilner Tawfik Zayyad



	10 20/07/1981 13/08/1984	Knesset Members: Charlie Bitton Tawfik Toubi Meir Vilner Tawfik Zayyad



	11 13/08/1984 21/11/1988	Knesset Members: Charlie Bitton Tawfik Toubi Meir Vilner Muhammed Wattad Tawfik Zayyad



	12 21/11/1988 13/07/1992	Knesset Members: Charlie Bitton Tamar Gozansky Hashem Mahameed Mohamed Naffa Tawfik Toubi Meir Vilner Tawfik Zayyad



	13 13/07/1992 17/06/1996	Knesset Members: Tamar Gozansky Hashem Mahameed Saleh Saleem Tawfik Zayyad



	14 17/06/1996 07/06/1999	Knesset Members: Tamar Gozansky Ahmad Sa`d Saleh Saleem



	15 07/06/1999 17/02/2003	Knesset Members: Mohammad Barakeh Tamar Gozansky Issam Makhoul



	16 17/02/2003 17/04/2006	Knesset Members: Mohammad Barakeh Issam Makhoul



	17 17/04/2006 24/02/2009	Knesset Members: Mohammad Barakeh Dov Khenin Hanna Swaid



	18 24/02/2009	Knesset Members: Afou Agbaria Mohammad Barakeh Dov Khenin Hanna Swaid



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