In 1965 he was involved in a breakaway from Maki to form Rakah, and was voted back into the Knesset on the new party's list later in the same year.

[5] Toubi is remembered as one of the two MKs (the other being Meir Vilner) who exposed the Kafr Qasim massacre, and is seen by the Israeli left as a fighter against racism.

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he demanded that the inhabitants of al-Birwa be allowed to return to their homes, a request refused by David Ben-Gurion.

[11] In 2012, the discourses and articles of Tawfik Toubi were published in Israel by his wife Olga and his son Elias.

[12] In 2011, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said: Toubi was a valued and impressive parliamentarian that left his mark on the Israeli parliament.