Moked

Moked (מוקד) 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, 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, 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) 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.