Uri Avnery
Israeli politician, journalist and author (1923–2018) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Uri Avnery (Hebrew: אורי אבנרי, also transliterated Uri Avneri; 10 September 1923 – 20 August 2018) was a German-born Israeli writer, journalist, politician, and activist, who founded the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager and a veteran of the 1948 Palestine war, Avnery sat for two terms in the Knesset from 1965 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981.[1] He was also the owner and editor of the news magazine HaOlam HaZeh from 1950 until its closure in 1993.
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אורי אבנרי | |
Faction represented in the Knesset | |
1965–1974 | Meri |
1977–1981 | Left Camp of Israel |
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Born | Helmut Ostermann (1923-09-10)10 September 1923 Beckum, Germany |
Died | 20 August 2018(2018-08-20) (aged 94) Tel Aviv, Israel |
He became known for crossing the lines during the Siege of Beirut to meet Yasser Arafat on 3 July 1982, the first time the Palestinian leader met with an Israeli. Avnery was the author of several books about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, including 1948: A Soldier's Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem (2008); Israel's Vicious Circle (2008); and My Friend, the Enemy (1986).[2][3][4]
He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (better known informally as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2001 and the Carl von Ossietzky Medal in 2008.