Uri Avnery


1950-1990
Former Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, "Ha'olam Haze" newsmagazine. 1965-1969
1969-1973
1979-1981
3 Terms as member of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament).
1975
Founding member, Israeli council for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
1993 Founding member, "Gush Shalom" (Peace Bloc), Independent Peace Mevement.
Columnist, Ma'ariv Daily.

Born:
September 10, 1923, Beckum, Germany.
Immigration to palestine:
November 1933.
Underground:
Member of the Irgun, 1938-1942.
Army service:
Member of Samson's Foxes, commando unit, 1948
twice wounded in action.

Prizes:
Erich-Maria-Remarque peace prize (Germany) for the year 1995,
awarded 21/6/95.
Honorary citizenship of Abu-Ghosh near Jerusalem, for his part in preventing
the eviction of the village, awarded 12.12.53 Honorary citizenship of Kfar Kassem, Israel,
awarded 31.11.96, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the war crime, for his principal role in exposing it.
Aachen peace prize for "Gush Shalom with Uri Avnery",
awarded 1/9/97.
Kreisky prize for human rights, Vienna, autumn 1997.
Lower Saxony prize for human rights, awarded 11.2.98
Palestinian award for human rights, awarded by "LAW", Palestinian Society for Human Rights
Jerusalem 7.6.98
(Avnery has never received any prize from any official Israeli body.)
Since 1948 has advocated the setting up of a Palestinianstate alongside Israel.
In 1974, Uri Avnery was the first Israeli to establish contact with PLO leadership.
In 1982 he was the first Israeli ever to meet Yassir Arafat, after crossing the lines in besieged Beirut.

Books:

• "Terrorism – The infantile disease of the Hebrew revolution"
  (Booklet, 1945, HEBREW).
• War or peace in the Semitic region (booklet, 1947, hebrew).
• "In the fields of the Philistines"
  (1949, Hebrew, translated into Spanish and Yiddish), best-selling combat diary (twelve editions).
• "The other side of the coin"
  (1950,Hebrew), war experiences.(was boycotted because of description of atrocities).
• "The Swastika"
  (1961, Hebrew), analysis of growth of the Nazi movement in Germany.
• "Israel without Zionists"
  ("the war of the seventh day") (1968, English - Macmillan us and Britain - translated into Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Spanish), history of the Israeli-Arab conflict, a plea for a Middle Eastern community.
• "1 against 119"
  (1969, Hebrew), speeches by Uri Avnery in the Knesset, edited by Amnon Zichroni.
• "My friend, the enemy"
  (1988, English, translated into Hebrew, French, German, Italian), a personal testimony about contacts with the PLO since 1974. German edition with preface by Bruno Kreisky.
• "Lenin doesn't live here anymore"
  (1991, Hebrew), about the transformation in the former Sowiet Union and Eastern Europe.
• "We wear the shirt of Nessos"
  (1991, German), Israel after the Gulf war.
• "Two peoples, Two states"
  (1995, German), conversation with Uri Avnery,
  preface by Rudolf Augstein.
• "The Jerusalem question"
  (1996, German), conversations of Uri Avnery and Azmi Bishara with Israeli and Palestinian personalities.

Uri Avnery - a detailed biographical note.

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