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Emile Habibi

Died in 1996

Emile Habibi was born in 1922 in Haifa, into a Protestant family. A refinery worker and then announcer at Radio Jerusalem, he was one of the Arab communist leaders under the Mandate, returned to Haifa in 1948 and co-founded the Communist Party of Israel, which he represented in the Knesset for nearly twenty years. He edited the party's weekly and lived in Nazareth from 1956. He received the PLO's al-Quds Prize in 1990 and the Israel Prize in 1992, for which he was criticised, and died in Nazareth in 1996.

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