Uri Avnery

Israeli politician, journalist and author (1923-2018)

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Born: 10 September 1923
Died: 20 August 2018
Works: 42

Top works

İsrail'in geleceği ve siyonizm
Los zorros de Sanson
Israel sans Sionisme
Nimrod
Israel im Nahen Osten

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Film & TV

Acting · Beckum, Germany

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Uri Avnery (born 10 September 1923) is an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965–74 and 1979-81. He was also the owner of HaOlam HaZeh, an Israeli news magazine, from 1950 until it closed in 1993. He is famous for crossing the lines during the Battle of Beirut…

Known for

Defamation — Self2009

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Type: Person
Active from: 1923-09-10

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Listeners: 3
Total plays: 3

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

False-Positive Psychology
· 2011 · cited 5,041x
INFOGEST static in vitro simulation of gastrointestinal food digestion
· 2019 · cited 4,413x
Gender Differences in Preferences
· 2009 · cited 4,247x
Analysis of 100,000 human cancer genomes reveals the landscape of tumor mutational burden
· 2017 · cited 2,868x
Network motifs: theory and experimental approaches
· 2007 · cited 2,862x

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Quotes

“America controls the world, we control America. Never before have Jews exerted such an immense influence on the center of world power.”
“By that time it was already clear that the next prime minister was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested – a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill.”
“Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi’ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin.”
“Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people cannot but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for 50 generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times "by the sword" to get them to abandon their faith.”

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Key facts

1965 1974: Meri
1977 1981: Left Camp of Israel
Born: ( 1923-09-10 ) 10 September 1923, Beckum, Germany
Died: 20 August 2018 (2018-08-20) (aged 94), Tel Aviv , Israel

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Official website: uriavnery.com
Image: UriAvnery.jpg

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Commons category: Uri Avnery
date of birth: 1923-09-10
name in native language: אורי אבנרי
birth name: Helmut Ostermann
date of death: 2018-08-20
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Uri Avnery (Hebrew: אורי אבנרי; 10 September 1923 – 20 August 2018) was an 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 was a member of the Knesset for two spells from 1965 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981. He was also the owner and editor of the news magazine HaOlam HaZeh from 1950 until its closure in 1993.

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).