Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery (, also transliterated Uri Avneri, 10 September 1923 – 20 August 2018) was an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement.

Avnery was born as Helmut Ostermann in Beckum, Germany.Uri Avnery biography, Knesset website.

Avnery was a member of the Irgun as a teenager, he sat in the Knesset from 1965 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981.Uri Avnery Knesset activities Knesset website He was also the owner of HaOlam HaZeh, an Israeli news magazine, from 1950 until it closed in 1993.

He was famous for crossing the lines during the Siege of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on 3 July 1982, the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is 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).

On 4 August 2018, Avnery suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in Tel Aviv in a critical condition.Ofer Aderet, Peace Activist Uri Avnery Hospitalized in Critical Condition,' Haaretz 9 August 2018. He died on 20 August 2018 at the age of 94.

References

Other websites

Uri Avnery's official website
Uri Avnery's weekly article
Obama's trilateral meeting will fail – interview with Radio France Internationale in English, September 2009 
Interview with Uri Avnery  Video Journalism Movement

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