Ma'avak

Officially known as the Revolutionary Communist Alliance (Hebrew: הברית הקומוניסטית המהפכנית‎, HaBrit HaKomunistit HaMahapakhnit), the group became better known by the name of its journal, Ma'avak.

Ma'avak split within a year, with Udi Adiv and others leaving to publish a new journal titled Hazit Adumah or Red Front [he].

[4] At the end of 1972 Adiv and other members of this group were arrested and charged with espionage and collaboration with the enemy (Syrian military intelligence), based on a secret trip some of them took to Damascus.

[6] Many of the defendants stated that they had been subjected to torture and other forms of physical and mental harassment by the Israeli security services before the trial, to force confessions out of them.

[4] Statements before the trial, submitted by the leading defendants – Adiv and Daud Turki - give a clear idea of their perspective.