Uri Avnery
Uri Avnery | |
|---|---|
אורי אבנרי | |
 Avnery in June 2006 | |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1965–1974 | Meri |
| 1977–1981 | Left Camp of Israel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Helmut Ostermann 10 September 1923 Beckum, Germany |
| Died | 20 August 2018 (aged 94) Tel Aviv, Israel |
Uri Avnery (Hebrew: אורי אבנרי, 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.[1]
Avnery was a member of the Irgun as a teenager, he sat in the Knesset from 1965 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981.[2] He was also the owner of HaOlam HaZeh, an Israeli news magazine, from 1950 until it closed in 1993.[3]
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.[3] 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.[4] He died on 20 August 2018 at the age of 94.[5]
References
- ↑ Uri Avnery biography, Knesset website.
- ↑ Uri Avnery Knesset activities Knesset website
- 1 2 "Uri Avnery (Ostermann)". Knesset.gov.il. 20 December 1966. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
- ↑ Ofer Aderet, Peace Activist Uri Avnery Hospitalized in Critical Condition,' Haaretz 9 August 2018.
- ↑ "WARRIOR FOR PEACE: URI AVNERY PASSES AWAY AT 94". Jerusalem Post. 20 August 2018.
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 Archived 2018-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Interview with Uri Avnery Archived 2010-03-07 at the Wayback Machine Video Journalism Movement