Actor
Born Sep 10, 1923 · Beckum, Germany
Awards: Right Livelihood Award, Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to Human Rights, Sokolov Award, Blue Planet Award, Carl von Ossietzky Prize, Lower Saxony State Prize
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.