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Uri Avnery

1923 - 2018

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Uri Avnery (Hebrew: אורי אבנרי, also transliterated Uri Avneri; 10 September 1923 – 20 August 2018) was a German-born 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 sat for two terms in the Knesset 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Uri Avnery is the 2,249th most popular writer (down from 1,610th in 2019), the 2,426th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,709th in 2019) and the 148th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Uri Avnery ranks 2,249 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Bolland, William Caxton, Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Ludovic Halévy, Ana María Matute, and Karlheinz Deschner. After him are Benjamin Péret, Giuseppe Giacosa, Fred Uhlman, Zbigniew Herbert, Ilse Aichinger, and Dacia Maraini.

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Among people born in 1923, Uri Avnery ranks 136. Before him are Ann Miller, Peter Vaughan, Mario Brega, Igor Shafarevich, Joseph Weizenbaum, and Ziba Ganiyeva. After him are Erroll Garner, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Bob Dole, Bert Kaempfert, Hjalmar Andersen, and Svetozar Gligorić. Among people deceased in 2018, Uri Avnery ranks 130. Before him are Maria Bueno, Adem Demaçi, Azeglio Vicini, Vitaliy Masol, Thorvald Stoltenberg, and Harlan Ellison. After him are Jalaluddin Haqqani, Sergio Balanzino, Rachid Taha, Al Matthews, Soon-Tek Oh, and Princess Elisabeth of Denmark.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Uri Avnery ranks 2,427 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich von Schmidt (1825), Edmund Stoiber (1941), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), Anna of Cleves (1552), Karlheinz Deschner (1924), and Reiner Stahel (1892). After him are Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703), Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662), Fred Uhlman (1901), Honoratus (365), Ernst Chladni (1756), and August Batsch (1761).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Uri Avnery ranks 148. Before him are Judith Kerr (1923), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), Rahel Varnhagen (1771), Rudolf Rocker (1873), and Karlheinz Deschner (1924). After him are Fred Uhlman (1901), Sebastian Haffner (1907), Jurij Brězan (1916), Berthold Auerbach (1812), Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715), and Wieland Wagner (1917).

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