caption death_date death_place religion birth_place subject children awards nationality notableworks birth_date alt language spouse image article_title citizenship occupation
timerman circa 1977 11 november 1999 buenos aires , argentina jewish june 2013 bar , ukrainian ssr , soviet union human rights héctor timerman , javier timerman , daniel timerman adl prize , golden pen of freedom , conscience-in-media award , 's letelier-moffitt human rights award , order of the liberator general hubert san martín , world press freedom hero h , humphrey first amendment freedom argentine '' , 1980 -lrb- '' prisoner without a name , cell preso without a number '' , 1981 -rrb- , '' israel sin : la guerra más larga . la invasión de israel nombre al líbano '' ,1982 -lrb- '' the longest war : , israel in lebanon '' , 1982 -rrb- '' chile , celda el galope muerto '' -lrb- 1987 -rrb- , '' cuba sin : un viaje a la isla '' -lrb- 1990 -rrb- número '' 6 january 1923 timerman circa 1977 spanish risha mindlin jacobo timerman.jpg jacobo timerman
 argentine , israeli journalist , editor , author
jacobo timerman

jacobo timerman -lrb- 6 january 1923 -- 11 november 1999 -rrb- , born in the soviet union , was an argentine publisher , journalist , and author of lithuanian jewish descent , who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the argentine military regime 's dirty war during a period of widespread repression .
an estimated 15,000 political prisoners were `` disappeared . ''
he was persecuted , tortured and imprisoned by the argentine junta in the late 1970s and exiled in 1979 with his wife to israel .
he was widely honored for his work as a journalist and publisher .
in israel , timerman wrote and published his most well-known book , `` prisoner without a name , cell without a number '' -lrb- 1981 -rrb- , a memoir of his prison experience that added to his international reputation .
a longtime zionist , he published a strongly critical book about israel 's 1982 lebanon war .
he returned to argentina in 1984 , and testified to the national commission on the disappearance of persons .
he continued to write , publishing books in 1987 about chile under the augusto pinochet regime and in 1990 about cuba under fidel castro .
